The Gwangmyeong Central Library, a treasure trove of documents and information, plays a role of a cultural guardian that collects, preserves and passes down intellectual cultural assets to descendents.

It provides an educational field for life-long learning and is a general information center for local residents. It strives to fulfill its responsibilities as a repository of the integral information and culture of Gwangmyeong through securing data to meet a variety of desires for information and provide convenient and quick systems, life-long education programs, digital data rooms that meet the electronic information age, a comfortable and pleasant library environment, reading circles for the improving of reading and a variety of other events.