2021-2022 Annual Fund
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Dear Friends,
We are asking you again to continue your support of Lanpher Memorial Library or to join those who have been our regular donors in the past. Last year's annual appeal was our best ever, thanks to many new donors, large and small, who responded to our bulk mailing. It takes a village and the town around it to maintain and improve a full-service library. Now well into our second century, the library has proved itself a necessary resource during the pandemic, somehow managing despite mandated restrictions to keep pace with the circulation of print materials in normal times, thanks to Library Director Amy Olsen and the dedication of Assistant Director Ruth Hay and Circulation Librarian Christi Dussault with their pick up/curbside service.
We plan our budgets more than a year in advance, but our annual fund gives us the extra flexibility to meet new challenges as they occur without having to cut into the planned budget for books and other materials. Just this August, for instance, the library's hot water heater failed and needed replacing, but thanks in part to our annual appeal we can deal with it without "borrowing" from other planned services.
The pandemic has already given us two winters of discontent, and the recent surge in COVID-19 variants threatens yet a third such winter. Whatever happens, the trustees and library staff will do their best to continue to circulate books and materials to the whole community. "Sweet are the uses of adversity," as the Duke in As You Like It says, adjusting to being locked down in the Forest of Arden. So, taking advantage of the reduced traffic in the library the last year and a half, the trustees fully supported Amy Olsen's dream of providing more meeting space. This past summer a new community and conference room was completed downstairs, and when you next visit the library you will like it even more.
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 courier system for inter library loans, virtually any book in the state is now available, something unimaginable not long ago for any rural state.
Lanpher Memorial Library is an independent municipal library with generous taxpayer support, and its elected trustees have pledged to raise additional funds and to dedicate all library income from its book sales, small endowment, and Adopt-an-Author program to the advancement of the library and its many services. We are especially grateful for the growing support of the Friends of the Library and for your vote of confidence in the library's future.
Sincerely, the Board of Trustees:
Fran Aronovici (chair), Jim Noyes (treasurer), Melanie Dickinson (secretary), Ken Geiersbach, Robert (Sigh) Searles, Kim Austin Puleio
We are asking you again to continue your support of Lanpher Memorial Library or to join those who have been our regular donors in the past. Last year's annual appeal was our best ever, thanks to many new donors, large and small, who responded to our bulk mailing. It takes a village and the town around it to maintain and improve a full-service library. Now well into our second century, the library has proved itself a necessary resource during the pandemic, somehow managing despite mandated restrictions to keep pace with the circulation of print materials in normal times, thanks to Library Director Amy Olsen and the dedication of Assistant Director Ruth Hay and Circulation Librarian Christi Dussault with their pick up/curbside service.
We plan our budgets more than a year in advance, but our annual fund gives us the extra flexibility to meet new challenges as they occur without having to cut into the planned budget for books and other materials. Just this August, for instance, the library's hot water heater failed and needed replacing, but thanks in part to our annual appeal we can deal with it without "borrowing" from other planned services.
The pandemic has already given us two winters of discontent, and the recent surge in COVID-19 variants threatens yet a third such winter. Whatever happens, the trustees and library staff will do their best to continue to circulate books and materials to the whole community. "Sweet are the uses of adversity," as the Duke in As You Like It says, adjusting to being locked down in the Forest of Arden. So, taking advantage of the reduced traffic in the library the last year and a half, the trustees fully supported Amy Olsen's dream of providing more meeting space. This past summer a new community and conference room was completed downstairs, and when you next visit the library you will like it even more.
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 courier system for inter library loans, virtually any book in the state is now available, something unimaginable not long ago for any rural state.
Lanpher Memorial Library is an independent municipal library with generous taxpayer support, and its elected trustees have pledged to raise additional funds and to dedicate all library income from its book sales, small endowment, and Adopt-an-Author program to the advancement of the library and its many services. We are especially grateful for the growing support of the Friends of the Library and for your vote of confidence in the library's future.
Sincerely, the Board of Trustees:
Fran Aronovici (chair), Jim Noyes (treasurer), Melanie Dickinson (secretary), Ken Geiersbach, Robert (Sigh) Searles, Kim Austin Puleio
Lanpher Memorial Library P.O. Box 196/141 Main St., Hyde Park, VT 05655
802-888-4628 hydeparklibrary@yahoo.com
802-888-4628 hydeparklibrary@yahoo.com