Fine Forgiveness and Food Drive December 9-14

Have you heard?? Columbus Public Library is giving back for the holidays  . . . in more ways than one.

The week of December 9-14, the library is celebrating Fine Forgiveness and Food Drive Week. During that time, everyone is encouraged to come in and request that their overdue fines be removed, and the library will happily oblige. “We know that overdue fines can be a barrier to using the library, and we want to do all we can to remove barriers,” said Library Director Cindy Fesemyer. Fees for lost or damaged items will remain, but patron overdue fees will be waived. Fesemyer notes that “this gives people a chance to start the year with a clean slate.”

NEW After School Edge Computer

Clara is making a really cool animation using our brand new After School Edge computer located in the Children's Library. 

The AfterSchool Edge features 50 top-rated educational software titles that appeal to elementary school students of all grades. It's loaded with an eclectic range of educational titles to ensure there are engaging activities for kids 6 to 12 years old. The content spans the entire curricular spectrum, from STEM topics to reading and math to reference and the arts. Talk about homework help! Oh, and it's FUN, too!! Just ask Clara. 

Columbus Public Library and Community Hospital Team Up for Early Literacy Initiative

BREAKING EARLY LITERACY NEWS: Siblings are now welcome to join parents and their younger sibs. Activities for olders brothers and sisters will allow baby's caregiver to focus on early literacy.

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We know there are great benefits in reading aloud to children. Scientifically speaking, these benefits are especially great in children under 18 months of age. That’s why the Columbus Public Library and the Columbus Community Hospital have teamed up to provide families with very young children the opportunity and resources to teach early literacy skills to babies.

Developing pre-literacy skills—the skills children need to master before learning to read—is an important part of kindergarten readiness and helping kids stay on track in school. The Early Literacy Initiative, funded by a grant from the Columbus Area Endowment, focuses on giving parents the resources they need to support their babies’ positive development straight from the get-go.

Brownie Troop #2887 ROCKS!!

Over $600 was donated by the Troop to the Library recently to help us incorporate a play element into the upcoming Wi-fi Garden space. We’re all so pleased that the Girl Scouts thought of the library with this generous gift.

The Wi-fi Garden, to be built in the spring, will connect the new parking lot with the front door entrance of the library. It will be a patio area with seating and a play element of some sort. It will be a pretty and useful space where people can make use of the free wireless Internet connection from the library while enjoying a nicely landscaped outdoor area beneath the trees. 

In this picture troop leader Dawn Davis (back, right) presents a check to Cindy Fesemyer (back left), Library Director. The girls of Brownie Troop #2887 show their pride with big smiles. Front row, left to right: Emma Kelly, Jie Liu, Audrey Walker, Madisen Davis and Zoe Denk. Not pictured are Emma Carlson, Emma Osterloth, Abigail Adams, Arianna Sowieja, Cora Dahl, Jaslynn Lor, Brianna Madison, and Madeline Banks-Gogert.

Thanks to you all!!

Dr. James A. and Lorna Will Donate Large Gift for Columbus Public Library Parking Lot in 2013

Dr. James A. and Lorna Will have shown their dedication to the City of Columbus and the Columbus Public Library with a generous gift of $10,000 to go toward the much anticipated library parking lot project.

In May the library’s request for funding the parking lot project was denied by the City Council on the basis that the project should have been included in the 2013 City budget and could not be added halfway through the fiscal year. With plans to follow City protocol and add the project to their 2014 budget request, the library’s Board of Trustees let the matter rest after that May Council meeting.

Library Board member Lorna Will was not content to lose the opportunity to create a safer parking situation for the library in 2013, however. Identifying a $10,000 gap in the funding required to do the project this year, Lorna and her husband James took it upon themselves to fill that gap. Their gift was presented to the library on Friday, July 19.

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