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TPL Has 126 Large Print Books Ready, Waiting
One day last March Joan Pedersen read an article in a newspaper that Wal-Mart Stores were offering $1,000 grants to libraries for the purchase of large print books for their patrons.
Now, right off the bat you have to understand that Joan is a Corporator (most libraries call them “friends”) and a most active and interested Volunteer at the Turner Public Library. She is not one to wait around and let someone else do the work. She read that forms to apply for the grants were available on the store web site, and she filled one out and sent it in.
As is the case with many grants, it was a waiting game. Summer came, then Fall, then winter – and then the money! No long letter, no congratulations on a successful application – just a check for one thousand dollars.
That might not seem like a lot of money to some big city libraries, but to the TPL it’s a bundle.
It’s what you do with your money that counts. So Librarian Vicki Varney went looking. One of those publishers she called on was Center Point Publishing in Thorndike, ME, a leading publisher of large print books. There was a discussion, and with that $1,000 grant Vicki was able to purchase 126 large print, hard cover books.
Trustees, fellow Corporators, and patrons thank you, Joan, our Volunteer of any year. And thank you, Vicki, for finding a Maine firm to help build the Library collection.
If you would like to thank Joan personally, you will probably find her behind the desk at the Library most Saturdays. And she will most likely be contacting many of you again later this year as she and Jan Fitzsimons corral donations for the Library’s annual Silent Auction, a major part of the Winter Festival community event. |
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