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Antelope Lending Library reports growing county-funded outreach: bookmobile, deliveries, snacks and car-seat work
Summary
The founder of Antelope Lending Library summarized 2024 service metrics and plans during a Johnson County Board of Supervisors meeting, thanking the county for funding delivery (ROAMS), a community liaison, and listing circulation and outreach statistics.
Cassandra Elton, founder and director of Antelope Lending Library, told the Johnson County Board of Supervisors on Feb. 12 that the nonprofit’s bookmobile and outreach services reached thousands of county residents in 2024 and that county funding has been essential to sustaining delivery services and a community liaison.
Elton said Antelope Lending Library operates a fees‑free, nonprofit bookmobile that visits the same Johnson County neighborhoods weekly from March through October, offers 90‑minute stops to build relationships with patrons and does not charge late or replacement fees. "Since 2012... we exist to meet people where they are and decrease as many barriers as possible to library access," Elton said.
She listed 2024 service totals the organization reported…
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