A Library and So Much More!

Dear Friend of the Library,

All of us have been able to watch Salt Spring’s new Library take shape over the last fourteen months. The Library’s new home is now almost complete, on time and under budget, and we will be open for business before the end of this year. The project was truly a team effort, one for which all the team members deserve their own gold medals.

Salt Spring will, finally, have a new library building that will meet community needs for the next fifty years. And, because of its design and its location, we can have a library—and yet so much more! Indeed, the Library could and should now become the heart and soul of our community. To do that, however, we need your support of the Library’s 2012 Annual Giving Campaign.

As already indicated above, we do not need any financial assistance either to complete the building or to furnish it. Rather, we are looking to the community to help us with our “enrichment and enhancement” activities. For example:

• an already first rate children’s program series must be made even better;
• making our new teen room a “go-to place” for that age group;
• funding for additional student help both during the summer and on weekends;
• additional support for a significant “opening year” expansion of the book collection;
• making more electronic databases and e-books available – both for use in the new building and to
download to your home computer or portable device;
• funding to offer library special events for all ages in the new program room.

Yes, it’s going to be a library—and how much more, however, depends on the amount of community support we receive. Can the Library Board, the 150 dedicated library volunteers who contribute so much of their time and energy, and Library patrons across the entire Island count on your generosity? In these uncertain financial times, we are grateful for contributions of any size, large or small. While the total amount raised is very important, so is the number of contributors. Please consider joining with the many Islanders who both appreciate what has just been built, and realize that it’s now time for our Library to continue to progress beyond “bricks and mortar”.

Donate now online to make your tax deductible donation or print and mail in the form below. THANK YOU!

Sincerely,
Stanley J. Shapiro
Chair, 2012 Library Annual Campaign

 

October 30, 2012 9:47 PM