The Friends of the Brunswick Library invites you to sign up to volunteer your time for our Annual Railroad Days Book Sale.
Please click on the link below to view the online sign-up sheet.
We are also still in need to book donations!
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We need your books! Call for book donations 2013
The 30th Railroad Days are a little less than a month away. Once again, the Friends of the Brunswick Library will be in attendance with our book sale.
The book sale is the Friends’ biggest fundraising event of the year, and we need your help.
We need donations of books to sell at Railroad Days.
If you have books you can donate, please call or text our President, Elizabeth Riitano, at 301-318-7636.
2013 Summer Lunch Program
In our area, many children depend on the school lunch program in order to have something eat every day. During the summer months when school is not in session and that resource is unavailable, many children must do without. The need is especially great in the Brunswick area.
The Brunswick Public Library and Friends are pleased to present and prepare a summer lunch program for children at our library. We will be providing healthy bag lunches combined with a literacy activity and a free book to take home one day per week, every week for the 9 weeks of summer. This program will emphasize good nutrition with fresh food and engage minds with literacy programming and activities. We plan to provide for 50 children every week.
We are seeking $3,000 to create and run this program this summer. We are asking local businesses and individuals to consider supporting this project. We are proud of these efforts to help community children and we hope you will be interested in the opportunity to have your name or business as a sponsor for the 450 children we plan to feed along with identifying you as a supporter to their families and the nearly 25,000 people that come through our doors every summer.
We have several levels of sponsorship including the unique opportunity to completely fund one week of lunches and books, making you or your business our official sponsor of the week:
Sponsor of the Week: Donate $500 or more and you will be our weekly sponsor. Your funding will entirely pay for the food and books for any week you specify and your business or corporate logo will be in the advertising and/or signage for that week. Your logo will be on all the lunch bags that children receive their lunches in and appear as a book plate in the books the children receive. Children and families at that session will be made aware that lunch that day was brought to them by you.
Advocate: Donate at least $250 and your corporate logo will be placed on all the bag lunches the children enjoy for one week. Your name or business will be announced at the program.
Friend: Donate $100 and your name or corporate logo will appear as a book plate in the books we give away to the children for one week. Your name or business will be announced at the program.
Benefactor: Donate $50 and you will be named as a benefactor at the program. Any amount helps us bring lunches to children in our community and we appreciate your support.
Please make all funds available to the Friends of the Brunswick Library, 915 N. Maple Ave., Brunswick, MD 21716 by April 1, 2013.
We hope you are as anxious to see a program of this type come to our community as we are and are willing to help make this an amazing success for our children. If you have questions or are interested in volunteering for the program, please contact Robin Bowers at the Brunswick Library 301-600-7250 or robowers@frederickcountymd.gov.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Riitano
President
Friends of the Brunswick Library
Volunteers needed for two April events
Calling all Friends of the Brunswick Library,
April is a busy month at our library. Not only is National Library Week April 14-20, but also the second anniversary of the opening of our new library building.
The Friends are asking for help on two different dates:
Monday, April 1st, starting at 10 am, The Friends of the Library are asking for help with weeding the planting beds in front of the library and around the parking area. (Rain date: Thursday, April 4th at 10 am.) Please bring gloves and a small garden trowel if you have one.
Tuesday, April 16th, from 4 pm to 6 pm, Robin Goetz would like help with a children’s program. Robin has planned an outdoor planting activity for the children and needs a couple extra hands to ensure everything runs smoothly.
Please go to our SignUp Genius page to let us know when you would be able to volunteer.
Railroad Days this weekend
Don’t forget that October 6 and 7 are Brunswick’s biggest event of the year: Railroad Days.
As we have for the last several years, the Friends of the Brunswick Library will be there. Our used book sale is our biggest fundraiser. On Sunday we’ll also be announcing the winner of our bumper sticker contest.
We’ll see you there!
FOL Bumper Sticker Photo Contest
The Friends of the Brunswick Library have a new logo; you may have seen it around town. Post a photo of a FOL bumper sticker with our new logo on the Friends of the Brunswick Library Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/FOLBrunswick) anytime between now & Railroad Days (10/5). The Facebook user that has posted the randomly selected photo will receive a free lunch certificate ($25.00) for the Green Country Inn. The lucky winner will be announced at Railroad Days (10/7).
There are always rules so here they are:
- One entry per Facebook user name.
- Please do NOT post photos of license plates; these entries will be deleted and not considered entries for this contest.
- Friends of the Library Board members & their immediate families are not eligible to win.
- Employees of the Brunswick Public Library & their immediate families are not eligible to win.
- Photos must be posted by the end of the day on Friday, 10/5/2012.
Call for book donations
Railroad Days is only a few weeks away, and the book sale is the Friends’ biggest fundraising event of the year.
We are currently looking for donations of books to sell at Railroad Days.
If you have books you can donate, please bring them to the Library and let the staff know you are donating to the Friends book sale.
If you have a large number of books please contact us at folbrunswick@gmail.com and we’ll arrange for a pick-up.
Brunswick – The Documentary
As part of the “Stories from Main Street” exhibit coming to Brunswick at the end of August, this local student-produced film provides an oral history of Brunswick and the Railroad that made it.
Smithsonian Institution: Stories From Main Street: Brunswick – The Documentary
Developed by Brunswick Students, the Brunswick Library, and the Brunswick Railroad Museum. Project support provided by the Smithsonian Institution Youth Access Grant program and the Maryland Humanities Council.
Open Meeting – May 5
The Friends of the Library, Brunswick Branch Board of Directors invites all members of the Friends and the public to an open meeting on Saturday, May 5, 2012 at 9 a.m. in the Community Room at the Brunswick Library.
If you have any questions please e-mail us at folbrunswick@gmail.com.
Looking for Art!
Now that the new Library has opened, there is so much more space. Even with so much of the exterior walls being floor-to-ceiling windows, there are still plenty of places inside that could do with a little decoration.
One of the primary purposes of the Friends of the Library is to seek out and acquire art for the Library. As such, we’re looking for a large, signature piece to mount above the fireplace.
As such, we’re looking for an artist who lives or works within a 50-mile radius of Brunswick to create some art for the Library.
Details here: Request for Proposal: Artwork for Brunswick
The Frederick County Community Foundation will allocate up to $15,000 for the creation of a piece of artwork for the Fireplace Reading Lounge of the Brunswick Public Library. The scope of the work will consist of:
One (1) piece of art to be installed in the Fireplace Reading Lounge. Preference given to artwork that features a theme that is unique to the Brunswick area or southern region of Frederick County. The artwork will be installed on a brick wall above the fireplace. The area directly above the fireplace measures approximately. 9′ 6″ h x 11’11” w
Responses must be submitted by April 12, 2012. (Full details at the RFP.)