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February is National Library Lovers’ Month. Home & Garden. Medicare
The simplest one is when supporters of a library simply meet en masse and read their own books. Usually this type of read-in is held at or near the supported library or the targeted legislative body. Indianapolis library lovers organized a read-in during July 2010 to protest drastic budget cuts that would have closed 6 branches. [24]
Friends of the Cambrian Library membership drive. Friends of Libraries (also Friends of the Library [1] and may be shortened to Friends [2]) are non-profit, charitable groups formed to support libraries in their communities. Support from the Friends groups may be financial, political and cultural.
Artwork created for National Library Week at Loyola Marymount University, 2017. First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week (NLW) as observed in the United States is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the USA each April, typically the second full week. [1] It promotes library use and support.
Among the Public Library Association's priority concerns are adequate funding for public libraries and improved access to library resources. [13] American Library Association published "A National Plan for Public Library Service" in 1948. This proposed "a nation-wide minimum standard of service and support below which no library should fall."
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
Summer reading programs take place at 95% of public libraries in the United States. [1] Children, teens, and adults participate in activities meant to encourage reading, such as keeping a reading log. Other names for summer reading programs include vacation reading club, summer reading club, vacation reading program, and summer library program. [2]
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