1. The big news, of course, is that the Local Trust Committee of the Islands Trust has approved the Library Board’s plans for the new building. This was a big hurdle to jump but we did it. We now expect to “break ground” in April, 2011
2. On December 2nd, the LTC will be asked to approve the plans for the temporary facility in down town Ganges that will be the home of the Library for a fifteen month or so period while construction is underway.
3. All this activity and change notwithstanding, the library during 2011 must continue to meet community needs much as it has done in recent years. Each day in 2010, for example, over 350 people will enter the Library and each week some 2,500 items will circulate.
And since the Library will continue to function while construction is underway, we are again asking for Community support of an Annual Giving campaign. Thanks to repeat donors making generous gifts, that campaign is off to a strong start.
However, small gifts as well as large ones are both welcomed and wanted. The number of donors, as well as the number of dollars, matters because that’s another measure of Salt Spring’s continuing support for its library.
These are tough times for many Islanders. If you can’t contribute this year, we will certainly understand. Your library will still be there to meet your needs. But if you feel you could give a gift but haven’t donated because yours could only be a small one, please reconsider. It all adds up.
And where will your money go?. Briefly put, it will be spent on summer and Saturday student help for our volunteers, on expanding the audio book collection, on better meeting the needs of both youngsters and teens, and on purchasing equipment useable both now and in the new building.
Please feel free to either walk your donation over to the library or mail it to SSI Library, 129 McPhillips, Salt Spring Island, V8K 2T6. And for more on the campaign and a PDF donation form you can use, just click on
Thank you,
Sincerely Stanley J. Shapiro
Fundraising Chair, SSI Library Board
The Library’s 2010
Annual Giving Appeal
