Our Mission
To promote reading, learning, and cross-cultural understanding.
Our Vision
Fundación Biblioteca David Kitson enriches and empowers the people of our community by encouraging the lifelong habit and love of reading; providing welcoming spaces that offer collections and resources that inform, inspire, enrich, empower and entertain; promoting educational and training opportunities as an integral part of the community; creating a link between cultures that builds local and global awareness through cross-cultural understanding and friendship.
“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
16,000+ individual visits a year in a community of 4,500 people
17,500 books complete the collection of the David S. Kitson Memorial Library
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
We are active members of the National Library System of Costa Rica