WHAT WE DO
Our Mission
To promote reading, learning, and cross-cultural understanding.
The Library hosts and directs a weekly senior citizens social club. The seniors practice and perform traditional folkloric dances and improvisational theater pieces throughout the community. They also play bingo and do other social activities each week.
Each week, a group of children meets at the Library to practice traditional Guanacaste folkloric dancing. The group performs at various community events, hoping to preserve this important part of local culture.
Since 1998, the Library has offered intensive English as a Second Language courses for children and adults during January taught by interns from Middlebury College. In addition, the Library offers supplemental English courses for adults throughout the year in six week blocks.
The Club de Lectura program for elementary school students meets weekly to discuss the books they are reading and work on reading comprehension.
The 10 members of the Youth Council receive mentorship, training in leadership and professional skills, and guidance to help them design and execute projects that serve their community.
Our Mommy and Me program meets weekly at the Library and emphasizes parents reading to their children. It also provides a venue for young children to develop their social and motor skills before starting school and for parents to interact with each other.
Special Educational Events
Film and documentary screenings, community forums and discussions, author book presentations, story time for children, and special activities for national holidays.
Letter writing services
For members of the community that need assistance with formal correspondence.
Meeting and rehearsal spaces
for community groups
Free and available for reservation.
Computer lab
Many computers available
for free use to the public.
Books in 3 languages
We have a wide variety of books available in English, Spanish, and German.
“Begun with students as its primary audience, the library has produced many “graduates” who have gone on top college, professions, and employment in Nosara or elsewhere. The library has also enriched lives throughout the entire community.”
Our Impact
15,000+ individual visits a year
Over 17,000 books available for check-out in English, Spanish, and German
Since 1998 over 1500 locals have taken English classes taught by Middlebury College students in our January English program
Since 2005 over 245 Elkhart, IN Youth Rotary Outreach Program volunteers have helped maintain the Library every year