Mission expresses the sense of existence of a particular subject, its fulfilment is a long-time matter.

The Municipal Library in Prague is the public universal library whose mission is to acquire, process, maintain and provide information, literature and other cultural values in order to ensure to Prague inhabitants fulfilment of their right for information, for permanent education and cognition, for access to cultural heritage of the nation and to the world culture and art, for recreation. It provides services to the widest public in Prague within a reasonable scope, quality, at a cheap price, quickly and effectively. At the same time, a special emphasis is placed on services for children, adolescents and students. The social role cannot be omitted, i.e. services to old age pensioners, socially weak and handicapped people.

• The Municipal Library is a library for everyone who wants to understand the world as well as himself/herself regardless his/her social position and age.
• The library supports by all means the readers´ interest in reading, at the same time it is a place of coming to rest and search for inspiration.
• It provides general, practical and communal information, it is a place of access to the world of computer bases and finally to multimedia as well.