Be sure to keep an eye out for the Friends of the Berryville Library’s upcoming raffle. Starting in May, you’ll be able to buy tickets for the Friends’ Make It a Summer of Adventure fundraising raffle. A special thank you to our presenting sponsor, Tonya Williams at Shelter Insurance, and all of our other generous sponsors. The prize drawing will be held Saturday, June 8, at the Ice Cream Social.
Continue reading “Make It A Summer of Adventure Sneak Peek”This year, our system greatly expanded our digital collections! In addition to our preexisting collections on ArkansasLibrary2Go (ebooks, audiobooks, and–as of this year–magazines), Mango language courses, DMV permit test resources, and Gale Legal Forms, we now have 4 exciting new digital collections you can check out with your card: Comics Plus, Creativebug, Hoopla, and Kanopy. You do need a card issued from our Carroll and Madison County Library system to access these resources.
Continue reading “Check Out Our New Digital Collections!”
The Friends of the Berryville Library are very excited to present our next author talk, Love Your Audience!
This discussion panel will feature two authors with ties to Berryville, Amanda McKinney and Craig Froman.
Continue reading “Join us on February 3 for Love Your Audience!”
In early November, our Berryville Library Building Project launched a fundraising challenge: raise $300,000 before the end of the year. If we reach this goal, we have an anonymous donor who will donate $100,000 to the building fund. The combined $400,000 from this challenge would get us to $3.2 million already raised since April 2021 and allow us to set a date to break ground in 2024. The plan is to then raise the remaining $300,000 needed during the building process.
In November, we raised an amazing $150,000, 50% of our goal, through a mailing, radio spots on our local KTHS and KUAF stations, and a telethon on KTHS.
We cannot thank the people who donated and helped us with the telethon and mailing and other fundraising efforts enough. However, we still need to raise that other 50% to reach our goal!
Continue reading “$150K Down, $150K to Go Before December 31st!”
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)”
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