Mission

If you want a single indicator of a community’s commitment to its future and social health, look at how it supports its library. Your library is your repository of knowledge, culture, art, history, and social interaction.

In 2003, Largo’s elected and civic leaders committed themselves to the community’s future by moving forward with plans to build an ambitious 90,000-square-foot, state of the art library to replace the beautiful, but seriously overcrowded building that had served for nearly 30 years.

Taking a lead in this undertaking was the Greater Largo Library Foundation, the not-for-profit organization that had for nearly 20 years acted as the recipient of gifts and bequests to the library. The Foundation committed at the onset to raise $1.9-million in a capital campaign to support the new library’s construction. By the time the new Largo Public Library opened in summer 2005, the Foundation had met, and exceeded its goal, a dramatic demonstration of the community’s support for the Foundation and the Library it serves.

Today, the Foundation continues its mission by creating and funding a wide range of innovative and ongoing programs, projects and special events for this beautiful facility, which has become a destination of learning, social interaction, community activity and culture for all of Pinellas County and, indeed, the entire Tampa Bay area.