Our Top Priority...
is to promote literacy and lifelong learning.
Our Mission
…whose mission is to promote literacy and lifelong learning in our community through programs, advocacy and fundraising for the Fernandina Beach Library.
Activities that help us accomplish our mission include the annual Story Telling Slam and the used Book Sale held each spring and fall. We regularly host guest speakers, provide educational programs, arrange outings to nearby places of interest, hold events and assist at Amelia Island events that benefit the library such as the Shrimp Festival parking.
Many needs of the community are met at the Library: computer services, socialization opportunities, magazines, books, story time for children and assistance and guidance with research projects. Truly, Libraries are very essential components of a community.
, Retired educator, Fernandina Beach
Google can bring you back 10,000 answers; a librarian can bring you back the right one.
, English Author
When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully – the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.
, Guitarist-Songwriter with the Rolling Stones
The more you read. The more things you will know. The more that you learn. The more places you’ll go.
, American writer of children’s books
In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own… a kind of parallel universe in which anything might happen and frequently did, a universe in which I might be a newcomer but was never really a stranger. My real, true world. My perfect island.
, American author and journalist
Without words, without writing, and without books, there would be no history, there could be no concept of reality.
, German-Swiss poet, novelist and painter
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
, American Author
The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.
, American Author
(A library) isn’t just a library. It is a spaceship that will take you to the farthest reaches of the universe… and most of all, a gateway, to a better and happier and more useful life.
, American author and professor
Libraries are the heart of every community, keeping our minds and spirits alive.
, Award winning author
Without libraries, what have we? We have no past and no future.
, American science fiction writer
Information is the currency of democracy.
, Third U.S. President and principal author of the declaration of independence