The library serves as a cultural and educational resource facility, museum, art gallery, and reading room.

[3] Highlighted attractions of the library include a museum, art gallery, and reading room.

Resources are also available to local professional and amateur writers including a variety of writing events and discussions.

The library sponsors an annual literary magazine, So It Goes, which debuted in December 2012 and publishes poetry and prose in the spirit of Kurt Vonnegut.

Installments are themed: War and Peace (I), Humor (II), Creativity (III), Social Justice (IV), Indiana (V), A Little More Common Decency (VI), Lonesome No More (VII), Slaughterhouse-Five (VIII), Civic Engagement (IX), and Our Good Earth: Vonnegut and the Environment (X).

[7] Notable contributors include Tim O'Brien, Lewis Black, Etheridge Knight, Dave Eggers, Sean Gill, Marge Piercy, Nannette Vonnegut, Dan Wakefield, and Clayton Eshleman.