The Friends of WFPL advocate for literacy and learning by providing resources for children's and other programming at the West Florida Public Libraries.
The purpose of the Friends of WFPL is to maintain an association of persons interested in the West Florida Public Library. To promote this purpose, the organization will
• Focus public attention on the library,
• Stimulate the use of the library’s resources and services,
• Receive and encourage gifts, endowments , and bequests to the library,
• Support and cooperate with the library in developing library services and facilities for the community,
• Support the freedom to read as expressed in the American Library Association Bill of Rights.
• Promote literacy and learning for a better community.