|
Library News &
Upcoming Events
|
New Shutesbury Library Challenge Gift
On January 11, 2012, a $150,000 matching (1:1) gift has been offered to the Friends of the M.N. Spear Memorial Library by an anonymous, private foundation. The pledge was offered as a way to help the Friends fund raise and defray the $1,000,000 cost to Shutesbury voters.
If the $3.5 million Library Project, as approved and awarded by the MBLC in July 2011, goes forward, the Foundation is committed to supporting the project up to the $150,000 (1:1) level. If the Library Project does not go forward, the entire pledge would be declared void.
Donation and Pledge Information
Donations and pledges for the new Shutesbury Library are for the new library as proposed in the Town of Shutesbury, Massachusetts Public Library Construction Program Grant Application, January 2011.
If the project does not move forward, donors will not be obligated to honor their pledges and donations will be returned at the donors request or at their instruction, to have the funds transferred to the Friends general fund or to be left in the New Shutesbury Library fund for future use for a new library.
New Shutesbury Library
Fundraising totals as of 1/8/2012:
Total donations and pledges received to date: $170,316.11
Total funds received: $53,506.26
Pledge Drive
Total pledges received $144,683.84
Pledges to be collected over next three to five years
$116,809.85
Total payments received toward pledges: $27,873.99
Donations
Total non-pledge (cash/check) donations
received $25,632.27
View tax impact of the new Shutesbury Library
Without fundraising here
With fundraising here
Click here to see the precise tax impact on
your home valuation. You will need your home
valuation available
here.
Click here to read the newsletter
distributed on December 15th by the Friends
Click here
to
download the 2009 Library Building Program
(1.1MB)
Click here
to
download the 2011 MBLC Grant Application
(19MB)
This document does not
contain the architectural drawings, which are available at the
library.
Click here to see LFNAC's 4 years of meeting
minutes.
|
|
|
Digital
Collection:
Spear Library patrons can browse and search hundreds of titles available for download. The digital collection includes audiobooks, eBooks, Disney digital books, and video.
Click here to access the digital catalog.
Kindle users can now download free books through our digital collection. The Kindle videos on borrowing and returning are now posted on the C/W MARS.
Click here for
the direct link.
|
|
|
|
|
|
Mondays, 10am
|
Weekly Story Hour
Julie Stepanek hosts story hour every Monday.
Brought to you by the
Friends of the MN Spear Library. |
|
|
2nd Wednesdays of the month
7 pm, Town Hall
|
Beginning Knitting with
Laura Walton, Learn the basics: cast-on, knit, purl,
cast-off, increase and decrease, how to pick-up dropped
stitches, and how to read knitting patterns. Please
bring # 8 needles and a skein of yarn.
|
|
|
Saturday,
February 4th
Doors open 6pm, Movie starts 6:30pm
|
Monthly Movie Night.
Suggested donation $1
per person, popcorn, soda and snacks for sale. Benefit
for the Friends of the Library
Brought to you by the
Friends of the MN Spear Library.
|
|
|
Wednesday, February 8th
7:30pm,
Member's Home
|
Roadtown Reads Book Club meets at member's homes once per month.
Click here for details.
|
|
|
Anytime! |
Museum Passes
The library has several family passes
to area museums available for borrowing. Can be borrowed for 1 week, fines are $1/day if overdue. Visit museums for free!
Smith College Museum of Art : family pass
USS Constitution Museum: family pass
Brattleboro Museum & Art Center:
Admits all members of 1 household
MA State Parks Pass: Use at Lake Wyola!
Mystic Aquarium: Two discount passes
Brought to you by the
Friends of the MN Spear Library. |
|
|
|
Stay tuned for more upcoming events! |
|
|
