Friends of Brooks Free Library
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About the Friends of Brooks Free Library
The Friends of Brooks Free Library was incorporated in 1974. It is a volunteer organization formed to assist the Director and Library staff in serving our community.
A Board of Directors is nominated from the membership of the Friends. Officers are elected annually.
We support the Library with materials, equipment, programs, museum passes and with specific projects, limited only by our finances. We administer certain grants and bequests. Our support is supplemental to the funds available to the Library from the Town and State. Our role is becoming more important as funds from these sources become scarce.
The Friends purchased the property on Bank Street adjacent to the Library for $130,000 to expand the parking area. Additionally, with the Building and Renovation Project capped at $3 million, we stepped forward with the $200,000 the Town needed to obtain the Bond for the Project.
The Friends derive their funds from membership dues, contributions, memorial funds, special sales of books and such activities as bake sales and theatre parties. We are tax-exempt.
Please accept this Invitation to join the Friends. As a member, you will receive our regular newsletter by mail. It includes notice of meetings, programs and other items of interest.
Just complete the attached membership application and mail it with your check to:
Friends of Brooks Free
Library, Inc.
P.O. Box #1456
Harwich, MA 02645
Or drop it in our box at the Library.
Memorial Funds
The
Rosemary Mulcahy Memorial Fund
for the Children's Department
The
Dorothy & Lodge Staubach Memorial Fund
for the Reading Room
The
Catherine & Leroy Campbell Memorial Fund
for books and objects that
pertain to the Fine Arts (broadly defined)
The
Joseph Thornton Trust