TINA L. SCOTT
EDITOR
Do you have overdue fines at the T.B. Scott Free Library? This week is your chance to clean up your library card, clear up those fines, and help others at the same time. In celebration of National Library Week, April 4-10, the Library will accept donations of nonperishable food items in lieu of cash to clear out your fines. For every dollar of library fines owed, bring one food item to the Library’s circulation desk, and your donations will be applied to forgiving your fines. Up to $50 of fines for 50 food items will be forgiven, per person, during National Library Week.
Donation suggestions include cold cereal, ramen noodles, egg noodles, elbow macaroni, macaroni & cheese, canned fruit, fruit cocktail, corn, spaghetti sauce, kidney beans, pork and beans, Jell-O, powdered milk, sugar, Spam, rice, instant potatoes, crackers, and toilet tissue. The library is asking that you not bring food items in glass containers, dented cans, or items that are expired or nearly expired. All donations collected will be given to the Merrill Community Food Pantry.
You can also still pay cash to clear up your library fines, as normal, if you prefer. Food donations may not be used to offset lost or damaged material charges.
If you don’t owe a fine but just want to donate, cash and food donations for the Merrill Community Food Pantry are welcome at the Library from April 4-10 and will be taken to the Food Pantry at the end of the week.
“The T.B. Scott Free Library joins libraries of all types in celebrating the many ways libraries build strong communities by providing critical resources, programs, and expertise,” said Laurie Ollhoff, Assistant Director at the T.B. Scott Free Library. “April 4-10 is National Library Week, an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians, and library workers play in transforming lives and communities. Libraries are at the heart of their cities, towns, schools, and campuses. They have public spaces where people of all backgrounds can come together and connect.”
“T.B. Scott Free Library helps lead the community by offering programs through the Words Worth Hearing series, the Building Merrill Together Initiative, Adult Read Programs, After School Activities for area students, FREE online courses through GALE, and numerous other activities and resources too many to mention,” Ollhoff added.
For more information about the library and what’s happening there, call 715-536-7191 or go to www.tbscottlibrary.org or follow the T.B. Scott Free Library on Facebook.