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Hamilton County library leaders ask council to fund Dolly Parton Imagination Library local match
Summary
Library directors and local partners requested Hamilton County Council funding to provide the local 50% match for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program; Carmel Clay Library Foundation has a $75,000 private grant and proposed interlocal or nonprofit funding vehicle for county contributions.
Representatives of Hamilton County libraries asked the County Council on March 5 to provide local funding to start the Dolly Parton Imagination Library program in Hamilton County, which mails high-quality children’s books monthly to enrolled children from birth through age 5.
Cheryl Sollars, director of the Westfield Washington Public Library, presented with directors from the other four county libraries and Katie Mullins, community engagement coordinator for the Dolly Parton Imagination Library of Indiana. Sollars said the statewide program currently mails more than 3 million books a month nationally and that the Indiana General Assembly in 2023 approved state funding that provides a 50% match…
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