Who We Are

Mission Statement

The Friends of Lakes Regional Library is a non-profit corporation established in 1990. Our mission is to support and raise funds for the benefit of Lakes Regional Library and/or Lee County Library System.

We support a wide variety of requests, which supplement the Lakes budget such as:

• Sponsoring and supporting the many adult, teen and youth programs
• Subscribing to the Book Page, a monthly periodical with book reviews and author interviews that is distributed for free at the Information Desk
• Purchasing needed equipment and furnishings to enhance the services provided by the Library
• Maintaining the plants in the children’s story garden
• Supplementing the periodical budget
• We also support the Southwest Florida Reading Festival,an annual event, free and open to the public