It’s October, which means it’s time to start renewing your Friends of the Berryville Library memberships! Or joining for the first time. 🙂
We’ve had a really eventful year for the Friends, so keep reading to learn more about how the building project and other Friends work is progressing.
Continue reading “Nothing’s Sweeter Than Being a Friend of the Library”
You may have noticed that we were closed Wednesdays in August for inventory. So, why did we need to be closed for that and why did we need to do an inventory?
Continue reading “All Things Inventory”
Today marks the first day of summer reading sign-ups, and we are very excited to introduce our theme, Peace, Love, and Reading.
After 3 years of reading challenges to raise money for the new library, we’re taking a step back from matching hours, but we still have reading fun for everyone. This year, we’re all about games, and most of you will be able to choose your own game adventure for the summer!
Continue reading “Peace, Love, and Reading This Summer at the Berryville Public Library”
Love to curl up with a murder mystery? Interested in meeting local authors? We have just the event for you!
The Friends of the Berryville Library are very excited to present the first in a series of local author talks–Murder with a Local Twist.
Please join us on Monday, April 24, at 6 p.m. at the Carroll Electric Community Room. Jane Elzey and Amber Camp will both be there to participate in a panel discussion and sign books.
Continue reading “You’re Invited to Murder with a Local Twist!”
We hope all of you had a good New Year! We’re super excited for 2023 at the library. Each year we have a different theme. Last year was “Books, Spice, and Everything Nice.” This year, our theme is “Walk A Mile In My Shoes.”
Intrigued?
Continue reading “Welcome to 2023!”
If you’ve been following our blog for any length of time or are a resident of Carroll County, you likely know about our quest to raise money for a new library building. Whenever people ask us what they can do to help, donating to our Berryville Library Building Project fund probably comes to mind first. And, of course, that’s a fantastic way to help. But if you really want to help, we ask that you also join the Friends of the Berryville Library.
This week is National Friends of Libraries Week. Friends groups are indispensable allies for libraries everywhere, but our Friends group is particularly important to us because it has been one of the driving forces in helping us reach our goal of building a new library.
Continue reading “We Get By With a Little Help From Our Friends (Of the Berryville Library)”
As we’ve done the past two summers, we hosted a fundraising/reading summer challenge--every hour read equals a dollar for the building fund. Except this year was our boldest challenge yet–25,000 hours for $25,000 in just 8 weeks. How’d we do?!
Continue reading “Thank you, thank you, thank you!”
Summer is soon upon us, which means it’s time for our annual summer program, as well for some new recent additions to our summer traditions at the library–a summer reading challenge and a storywalk!
Continue reading “Want To Help The Library Raise $25,000 This Summer?”
About this time last year, we kicked off our fundraising campaign for a desperately needed new library building. In just one year, we’ve already raised over $1,000,000, an astonishing fundraising feat that we are incredibly thankful for.
But the work is not over! We still need to raise another $1,500,000 to build the 10,000-square-foot building that would allow us the space we need for our collection and programming needs.
Last year, we were able to raise $20,000 for the campaign in honor of Library Giving Day, and we’re hoping to do the same thing–or even better–for Library Giving Day (April 6) this year. In fact, we’re stretching it out to be a Library Giving Week, April 3 to 10. 🙂
Continue reading “Library Giving Week 2022–Help Us Raise $20,000 For A New Library!”
Thanks to two Secret Santas, there will be cheer for you, cheer for me, and cheer for the library this holiday season.
All you have to do is watch Christmas movies and/or do acts of kindness. In exchange, you’ll raise money for our building project and accrue OOPS credit, which you can use for library fines or bank to pay for copies and faxes.
Interested? Read on!
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