Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Lewis & Clark Library: Celebrate National Library Week April 12-18
April 6, 2015 (Helena, MT) –During the week of April 12th, Your Lewis & Clark Library will join libraries in schools, campuses, and communities nationwide in celebrating National Library Week, a time to highlight the changing role of libraries, librarians, and library workers.
Libraries today are more than warehouses for books. Instead, libraries and librarians are change agents within their communities – transforming lives through innovative educational resources and forward-thinking programming. Libraries are doing their part to close the digital divide and level the playing field by providing free access to information and technologies that many in their communities would be hard pressed to find elsewhere. Libraries help to ensure the American dream and promote democracy by providing service to all regardless of race, ethnicity, creed, age, ability, sexual orientation, gender identity, or socio-economic status.
Librarians work with elected officials, small business owners, students, and the public at large to discover and meet the needs of their communities. Whether through offering e-books and technology classes, materials for English-language learners, programs for job seekers or offering a safe haven in times of crisis, librarians listen to the community they serve, and they respond.
Lewis & Clark Library Director, Judy Hart believes that “The library has always been a place of unlimited possibilities.” “Whatever your interest or need, the library and the library staff are here to provide you the resources you need to accomplish your goals and dreams.”
Your Lewis & Clark Library is celebrating National Library Week by once again hosting “Food for Fines.” Simply bring in non-perishable food items along with all of your over-due library items to the Library and the Circulation staff will waive your fines.
Some restrictions do apply, however. Patrons must have all over-due items turned in and must present their food share donations in order to have their account cleared. Patrons with accounts in collections, or who owe for damaged or lost items, will not be able to benefit from Food for Fines.
The Lewis & Clark Library will donate all collected food items to the Helena Food Share. “This is a fantastic opportunity to clear up your Library account while helping out your community at the same time,” commented Hart.
The main branch of the Library at 120 S. Last Chance Gulch, as well as the branch libraries in Augusta, Lincoln, East Helena, and the Bookmobile will accept food share donations in lieu of fines from April 12th-19th. For more information, please contact the Circulation staff at 447-1690 ext 6 or log onto www.lclibrary.org.
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April.
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