It is the mission of the Norfolk Public Library to serve the educational, informational and recreational needs of the community. In the field of educational services, the Norfolk Library should play a significant role in delivering library and media services in the public schools as well as services to young children, students, adults, and retired persons in the public library. As an informational resource, the library and its staff seek to enhance access to large amounts of materials through active links with other libraries, the regional library system, and the use of electronic information storage and retrieval, as well as development of the Norfolk Library's own permanent circulating and reference collections. In recreational library services, it is recognized that a significant part of the library's very high per capita circulation is in the area of recreational materials and the library seeks to continue to make available recreational library materials in all relevant media.