What We Fund

Although funds earned by the Friends cannot be used to supplement staff salaries or extend library hours, we can do a lot to support both staff and library programs. Friends of the Olympia Library funded all these things in 2008:

• Notes Between Friends – The Friends’ Quarterly Newsletter
• Library shelving for newspapers
• Bike rack for Library staff
• Tuning the Library’s piano and repairing the Staff coffeemaker
• Special events: High School play performance
• Outreach: Participation in Olympia’s Ethnic Celebration and Arbor Day, and Evergreen Villages children’s program
• Books and incentives for: “Reading Explorers” and “Teen Book Discussion Group”
• Extra copies of teen bestsellers
• Refreshments and decorations for special patron and staff events
• Appreciation awards and brunch for Library pages, aides, volunteers and staff
• Puppets and toys for children’s story times
• Rent for storage space for Book Sale books
• Camera for Library staff
• Chairs for Teen Corner and bench in the hallway
• “Book Page” subscriptions
• Cigarette Butt Bin
• Youth Services Planning Retreat
• Flat cart and ergonomic lift cart for staff transporting books
• Convex security mirror and plant containers
• Boxes for storing books during Library remodel
• Special presentations for adults: authors Eric Lyle, Silja J.A. Talvi, Quintard Taylor: musician Mirah Yomtov Zeitlin
• Adult Book Display table