South Hadley Public Library

Welcome and thank you for visiting the Friends of the Library page on the South Hadley Public Library website. If you are a member – Thank you for your generous support! If you haven’t yet signed up, please do! Also please consider a gift membership for the book lovers in your life. We’d love to have you all as Friends!

The Friends of the South Hadley Public Library is an active organization of great people who love our library. All our efforts benefit the library in the form of underwriting programming and materials. Some of our works include: sponsoring author talks, purchasing Museum Passes for use by library patrons, and funding for the Children’s Summer Reading Program. This year we also donated $5,000 of the $20,000 matching funds necessary for the library to secure a $40,000 Planning and Design Grant.

Yearly membership dues and our annual raffle are the main sources of funding that help us carry out the work of the Friends. We also have book and bake sales during the Canal Village Potpourri in the spring and Columbus Day in the fall. And for the past 2 years we have held a Scholastic Book Fair in August with great success.

The Friends are celebrating our 50th year in 2008! Supporting our library is a privilege. And more than ever during these uncertain financial times, it is a responsibility to keep our library a vital and strong resource for our community.

We always welcome your ideas and suggestions. You can email us at friendsofshpl@yahoo.com . We would love to hear from you! And please view the Library’s calendar to check out all the great offerings here at the South Hadley Public Library!

Hope to see you at the Library!

Cathy Allen
President, Friends of the South Hadley Public Library

Page update December 1, 2008
Maintained by Bob Williford