The Municipal Library of Ponta do Sol is a public service that intends to make easier the access to culture, information, education and entertaining and make it available to everyone, in order to maximise the cultural level and quality of life of Madeiran people. Being also a centre of educational resources, its main goals are: to stimulate the pleasure of reading and to encourage and develop the understanding about the World we live in; to create conditions to the fusion of literary, scientific and artistic creations, simultaneously ensuring the development of the individual’s capacity of criticism; to preserve, to value and to promote the written patrimony, focused on local assets, which will contribute for the reinforcement of the region’s cultural identity; to promote and publish documents and updated useful information, in various forms, concerning different areas of knowledge, thus, fulfilling the needs of users and different social groups.

The municipal library of Ponta do Sol is a cultural and pedagogical service provided by the town hall of Ponta do Sol to allow its citizens the access to information, culture, education and leisure. In the library we can find diverse documents like books, magazines and other kind of documents that allow a variety of options. The library offers resources that support the general education and promote the cultural development of Ponta do Sol.