Our Mission
Libraries Without Borders US combines expert library support services with boots-on-the-ground community implementation—ensuring economically disadvantaged and underrepresented communities gain equitable access to literacy, learning, and cultural connection.
We pursue this mission through two interconnected pathways:
Community Programs:
We work directly with excluded communities to remove barriers to access, create culturally relevant programming, and support literacy, learning, and cultural preservation.
Institutional Partnership:
We equip libraries with the expert consulting, training, and implementation support they need to reach excluded populations, filling capacity gaps and delivering measurable results.
Our approach is:
- Community-led: We center the voices and needs of those we serve
- Place-based: We meet people where they are, partnering with libraries, schools, laundromats, and trusted community spaces to expand access
- Evidence-informed: We use data to design, adapt, and scale what works
- Justice-oriented: We build community agency through access to knowledge and information
We sustain our community-centered mission through a dual revenue model: philanthropic support for direct programming and earned revenue from institutional consulting.