Friends of the Library: Update!

10 Mar Friends of the Library: Update!

The 2023 Friends of the Library (FOL) membership form is ready and the new membership cards are back from the printer. It’s a good time to join. Download and print the application or pick up a copy at the library. Leave a check or cash with a librarian or mail it back and FOL president Nancy Landau will send your membership card/s to you. (Or she can can leave it/them for you at the library if you prefer).

Go here for more on Friends of the Library.

Go here for more on the Library in general.

And please scroll down to read Nancy Landau’s note.

Please see the membership card (attached below) for the discounts offered by our 29 local business partners. FOL welcomes these nine new businesses participating this year: Bruno Coffee Shop, Caravan Middle Eastern Food, Kazahana Sushi, Telluride Chamber Music Association, Telluride Music Co, The Cornerhouse Grille and Uno Dos Tres Tacos & Tequila.

FOL is a member-supported, non-profit organization. Membership dues and donations are used to fill  requests for funds from library staff.

FOL’s gifts to the community through Telluride’s Wilkinson Public Library include:

a) One Book/One Canyon – free books for local readers + author appearances. (For 2023: “Breathless” by David Quammen. on March 16 for his presentation at the library.)
b) StoryWalk on the River Trail
c) Self-checkout machine
d) 10 “Townie” bicycles
e) Mobile kitchen cart for cooking classes
f) “Read With Hart” Little Free Library (beside the M&M Mercantile in Placerville). “Take a Book, Leave a Book” anytime.

NOTE: We continue to sell books from the lobby shelves by the elevator and are keeping them well-stocked with a wide variety of titles. Have a look and take some home! There’s a red box on the side of the bookshelf for donations. 

Go here for more about Friends of the Library.

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