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Friends of the Library get $10,000 Carnegie grant; library seeks summer feeding designation
Summary
The library's Friends group received a $10,000 award from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation and the director said she applied to the Greater Oklahoma Regional Food Bank to be a summer feeding site; staff and volunteers will adjust hours to serve working families.
The Guthrie library's Friends of the Library has received a $10,000 award from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the library director told the advisory board.
"They are going to give $10,000 to every Carnegie library," the director said, and she reported that the check was handed to the Friends for them to decide how to spend. The Friends raised more than $5,000 at their annual book sale, the director added, and have revised their bylaws.
Separately, the director said she has submitted an application to the Greater Oklahoma Regional Food Bank for the library to serve as a summer feeding site. If approved, distribution will be managed by library staff and volunteers; the director proposed shifting distribution to later hours to accommodate working families, tentatively Thursdays from 5:45 to 7:45 p.m.
The director said she and a colleague (Gwen) would serve as program leads during the feeding program and that volunteers would help with distribution. She emphasized a plan to stagger food deliveries during the summer to avoid early over-distribution and waste.
The board did not vote on any expenditures or on the summer feeding application at the meeting; the director asked the Friends and board members for ideas on how to use the Carnegie funds and to plan sustainable funding if they start new programs such as the Dolly Parton Imagination Library.
