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Advocate
As Friends, we love our library!! We celebrate it as one of our great city resources by promoting its use, function and importance to all ages in the community. Friends experience first hand, the value of our library and share it with others.

Special Funding
Through simple fundraisers like the annual book sale and membership dues, the Friends provide funding for special library projects that normally are not covered by the budget. The Friends help purchase special equipment and fund special library programs.

Programs & Events
Our library resources impact our lives in many ways. We share these experiences through public programs and members’ events. The Friends sponsor such events as “Meet-the-Author,” film screenings, “Show & Tell” and special story times. Within the wide variety of activities, there are many ways to share talents and interests by helping make events happen, or just attending an event that is of interest to you. It’s up to you!

Volunteer
There are many ways that Friends are involved in the Library. It can be as simple as greeting people at a library program or as engaged as coordinating the annual book sale. Imagine how YOU can help the library!!!

Here are just a few ways that Friends have shared their time and talents by volunteering.

  • Annual Book Sale
  • Host and/or coordinate programs
  • Adopt-a-Magazine
  • Serve treat or refreshments
  • Story Time Readers
  • Distribute posters
  • Host an author
  • Publicize events

 

Book Bags
$10 donation
 


Friends of the Library             << Back

... as beauty is in the eye of the beholder,
the ideal library is in the wish of its maker.
                         Carolyn Wells (1862–1942)

The mission of the Friends of the Library is to support, promote and enhance the services and goals of the Blair Public Library. 

There are four points to fulfilling this mission.

  • Being an Advocate
  • Providing Special Funding
  • Promoting Programs
  • Volunteering

Members help to ensure that the Blair Public Library continues to fulfill the needs of the residents of Blair now and for the future generations.

Friends of the Library believe that our public library provides important information, enriching entertainment and collective expressions of our culture. Through novels and newspapers, picture books and how-to guides, magazines, maps and movies — our library shelves are filled with facts, stories and ideas — keys to an enlightened people. Friends of the Library know this and PROMOTE IT.

Membership dues are $5.     Membership Form    |  BYLAWS

Meeting are quarterly in January, April, July and October  (third Thursday)

Calendar
Thursday, April 19th at 7:00 p.m.

Phil Green will present findings on the needs assessment and preliminary plans for the library. 		 

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