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Strategic Plan Focus:

Satisfy Curiosity and Encourage Lifelong Learning

The resources you need to explore topics of personal interest and continue to learn throughout your life are at your library.

• Goal: Visitors explore their interests using the variety of information at the library.
• Goal: Your libraries are centers that offer access to civic, cultural and community enrichment opportunities.

Special Quotes

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young. – Henry Ford

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. – Mark Twain 

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. – Abraham Lincoln

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with new eyes. – Marcel Proust

What exactly does Lifelong Learning mean?

1. From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifelong_learning
1. Lifelong learning is the "ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated" [1] pursuit of knowledge for either personal or professional reasons.
1. Department of Education and Science (2000). Learning for Life: White Paper on Adult Education. Dublin: Stationery Office
2. The term recognizes that learning is not confined to childhood or the classroom but takes place throughout life and in a range of situations. During the last fifty years, constant scientific and technological innovation and change has had a profound effect on learning needs and styles. Learning can no longer be divided into a place and time to acquire knowledge (school) and a place and time to apply the knowledge acquired (the workplace).[3]  Instead, learning can be seen as something that takes place on an on-going basis from our daily interactions with others and with the world around us.
1. Fischer, Gerhard (2000). "Lifelong Learning - More than Training" in Journal of Interactive Learning Research, Volume 11 issue 3/4 pp 265-294
2. From: http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/03/18/how-and-why-to-become-a-lifelong-learner/
1. In his book Drive, author Dan Pink argues that we need three things to feel motivated about, and satisfied with, our life: autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Becoming a lifelong learner fulfills all three of these psychological needs.
2. Change your idea of learning. Learning doesn’t have to be in a formal classroom setting. In fact, most of the useful stuff you know was probably picked up informally from family, friends, and good old trial and error. To become a lifelong learner, ditch the idea that you need to sign up for a class to actually learn something. Learning opportunities are all around you. Remember that learning isn’t confined to what’s found in books – acquiring practical skill sets is a big part of it too.