2019-2020 Annual Fund
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Dear Friends,
We are asking you to continue your support of the Lanpher Memorial Library or to join those who have been its regular supporters in the past several years. It takes a village and the town around it to build and maintain our treasure of a library. We are now a few years into our second century, and the library has never been better or able to offer so many services.
Our Annual Fund gives us the extra flexibility to meet new challenges as they occur without having to cut into the budget for new books and materials. Just this year, for example, we learned after a roof inspection that prompt repairs to the slate roof were necessary, something that last year's Annual Fund drive will just about pay for. At the Town's request, this year we established a reserve fund to help meet such contingencies in the future.
Lanpher Memorial Library is an independent municipal library with generous tax support, and its elected trustees have pledged all library income from its book sales, small endowment, Adopt-an-Author program, even its copy machine fees, to the advancement of the library and its many services. In the past we have made both the old and new sections of the library energy efficient, installed air-conditioning, repainted the interior walls, and upgraded computers according to our long-term strategic plans. The library's many services are well known and widely used--downloadable books, copy services for tax and other official forms, and a wide selection of DVDs, audio books, etc. With the state's new courier system for interlibrary loans, virtually any book in the state is now available, something unthinkable not long ago for any rural state.
Our library director, Amy Olsen, has earned her statewide recognition, most recently as President of the Vermont Library Association. We ask that you support her good work and that of her assistant librarian Ruth Hay and circulation librarian Christi Dussault. We are very grateful for the growing support of the Friends of the Lanpher Memorial Library, the nonprofit organization which sponsors speakers and furthers the library's aims.
Sincerely, the Elected Library Trustees
Ken Geiersbach, Chair; Robert (Sigh) Searles, Co-chair; Jim Noyes, Treasurer; Melanie Dickinson, Secretary; and Fran Aronovici, Emily Dearborn, and Susan Hayes
We are asking you to continue your support of the Lanpher Memorial Library or to join those who have been its regular supporters in the past several years. It takes a village and the town around it to build and maintain our treasure of a library. We are now a few years into our second century, and the library has never been better or able to offer so many services.
Our Annual Fund gives us the extra flexibility to meet new challenges as they occur without having to cut into the budget for new books and materials. Just this year, for example, we learned after a roof inspection that prompt repairs to the slate roof were necessary, something that last year's Annual Fund drive will just about pay for. At the Town's request, this year we established a reserve fund to help meet such contingencies in the future.
Lanpher Memorial Library is an independent municipal library with generous tax support, and its elected trustees have pledged all library income from its book sales, small endowment, Adopt-an-Author program, even its copy machine fees, to the advancement of the library and its many services. In the past we have made both the old and new sections of the library energy efficient, installed air-conditioning, repainted the interior walls, and upgraded computers according to our long-term strategic plans. The library's many services are well known and widely used--downloadable books, copy services for tax and other official forms, and a wide selection of DVDs, audio books, etc. With the state's new courier system for interlibrary loans, virtually any book in the state is now available, something unthinkable not long ago for any rural state.
Our library director, Amy Olsen, has earned her statewide recognition, most recently as President of the Vermont Library Association. We ask that you support her good work and that of her assistant librarian Ruth Hay and circulation librarian Christi Dussault. We are very grateful for the growing support of the Friends of the Lanpher Memorial Library, the nonprofit organization which sponsors speakers and furthers the library's aims.
Sincerely, the Elected Library Trustees
Ken Geiersbach, Chair; Robert (Sigh) Searles, Co-chair; Jim Noyes, Treasurer; Melanie Dickinson, Secretary; and Fran Aronovici, Emily Dearborn, and Susan Hayes