Friends of the Library
The only way to have a friend is to be one.—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winston Churchill and the Art of the Written Word
Meet Michael Shelden, the featured speaker at the Friends of the Library Annual Meeting on Wednesday, June 26 at 5:45 p.m. in Room 1B of the Main Library. Shelden will share stories about Churchill's love affair with literature and his work as a writer, gathered from his research in writing his recently released book Young Titan: the Making of Winston Churchill. Shelden is an entertaining speaker and acclaimed biographer. You don't want to miss this!
Enjoy a delicious lunch or dinner at Bobby's Colorado Steakhouse on Friday, June 21 from 11 am to 11 pm and 10% of your tab will be donated to the Friends to support library programming and services. Locally owned and operated, Colorado Steakhouse offers full lunch, dinner, dessert and lounge menus. No matter what time of day you dine, Colorado Steakhouse will have what you are craving. Dine and donate when you bring the flier and present it to your server. Pick up a flier at library kiosks or print from our website after June 1. Make plans to get together with friends for some fun and a great meal while you dine and donate to the library!
Friends 2012 Campaign for Excellence Goals Surpassed!
Thank you for helping us surpass our goals for the 2012 Campaign for Excellence. Thanks to 346 of you who are truly Friends of the Library, we raised nearly $42,000 to help Monroe County Public Library's collections keep pace with ever expanding information, ideas, and technologies.
Your gifts will allow the library to purchase more downloadable books and music, purchase more bestseller movies and books, fund subscription databases for all in the community to share, purchase materials in other languages, adult and early literacy materials, and digital creativity software. A portion of the funds will grow the Friends' Collections Endowment to increase annual gifts to the library to support the collection. By surpassing our goal, we are able to purchase a portable RFID reader which will make shelf reading, re-shelving, sorting, searching, weeding and inventory much easier and more efficient. This will allow us to more easily look for holds and missing items and find incorrectly shelved items.
Mission Statement
The Friends of Monroe County Public Library support the mission, vision, and values of the library. The Friends advocate for Monroe County Public Library and support library collections, services, programs, and staff development.
Friends of the Library Office
303 E. Kirkwood Ave., Bloomington, IN 47408
Office Hours: M–TH, 10am-4pm
(812)349-3050, ext. 1080
FOL [at] mcpl [dot] info
