Billings Public Library

Billings Public Library is where our community connects and grows together, discovering the love of reading, the joy of learning, and the sharing of creative expression.

Through the services provided by Billings Public Library, Billings, and Yellowstone County residents will:

• Experience the Library as a focus of community life for people to gather and connect with each other to build a strong, sustainable, and livable community.
• Acquire the skills and information they need to succeed at school, at work, and in their personal lives.
• Discover responsive, dynamic, and high-quality services and programs that enlighten, inspire, and entertain.
• Benefit from reading, viewing, listening to materials, and participating in programs that stimulate their thinking, enhance their knowledge of the world, and enrich their leisure time.
• Enjoy a high level of access to electronic information resources.
• Develop the technological, information seeking, and information evaluation skills needed in an increasingly complex world.
• Utilize fully the Library's resources and services, and encourage others to do so as well.
• Enjoy relaxing and welcoming spaces that are a source of local pride and an essential public resource.
• Discover a catalyst for lifelong habits of learning, self-improvement, and self-expression.
• Find a bridge over the digital divide for those lacking access to technology.
• Find a partner in building the community's future.
• Develop the love and habit of reading in children from the earliest possible moment.
• Interact with the Library, the community, and the world through the use of digital communications and dynamic social media.