Your Gift Matters…

The Changing Library:

We live in an age that demands that libraries reinvent themselves – as community and civic gathering places; as safe places for children to learn, study, do homework; where parents and children grow together; where old and young learn to read; where minds are challenged and hope is grown.
Libraries must serve new communities in new ways: ways that are “high touch and high tech.” The library of today is challenged:

to provide information through technology, digital media, and media accessible to those with disabilities
to address the social challenges of illiteracy, children’s success in school, and renewing the role of family in education
to address the need for community and civic dialogue
to serve as gathering place – to be the Forum of today’s city
to preserve history through state-of-the-art archival storage and research facilities

Our Library Today:

At a time of the greatest recession since the Great Depression libraries are more relevant than ever! They are places to job search; to cut budgets by providing movies, reading material and internet access for free; and places where families can participate in cultural events -- all free of charge.

With large budget cuts, the library has had to eliminate Sunday hours and much of its community outreach and programming. It is private dollars that will make our libraries living places to grow and learn.

Your support is more important than ever!

You Are Important:

The role that the Foundation plays in securing funds to improve Library services is more critical than ever. The Foundation provides enhancements and services not provided through regular government funding channels. It allows improvements to occur faster. It makes libraries better than they would have been. Your gift provides the margin of excellence.

Please consider making a donation to create a capital library for a capital city.

$300 will provide a cozy upholstered chair for a children’s room

$500 will provide take-home books for over 300 preschoolers

$2,000 will restore an historic document

$3,000 will purchase a "Best Children's Books" collection (241 volumes)

Larger gifts can create a new Children’s Room, Literacy Center, or Reading Lounge.