1110 Copper Ridge Lane, Ketchikan, Alaska 99901 907-225-3331
Open Sunday noon-6pm; Monday 10am-6pm
Tuesday-Wednesday 10am-8pm; Thursday-Saturday 10am - 6pm.
Friends of the Ketchikan Public Library
Who we are:
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Friends who know that our community needs and benefits from a first-rate library.
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Friends who are interested in promoting the library by improving its services, resources, and community role.
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Friends who care about libraries.
We are a volunteer group and an organized 501(c)(3) non-profit. Officers are elected at our annual meeting in April. We maintain email and mailing lists.
Sophia Pilgrim talk at 2024 annual meeting: The Friends held their annual meeting on April 16. Kayhi student and Teen representative on the Library Advisory Board Sophia Pilgrim was the featured speaker with a talk entitled 'The Importance of Teenagers to Libraries, and Libraries to Teenagers: The Good of Looking Ahead'.
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What we do:
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Summer Reading Club support
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Book sales
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Blueberry Arts Festival booth
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National Library Week activities
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Library Special Requests (purchases, subscriptions, activities)
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Alaska Digital Library audio- and e-books
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Teen Advisory Group support
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Visiting Authors support
Book donations will be accepted next on Saturday, April 27th from noon-2pm at the U-Haul storage facility just past the mill north of town. Each household may bring up to 5 medium boxes of books in good condition. The Friends are not accepting encyclopedias or magazines. Once you get to the facility balloons will mark the Friends locker.
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Where does the money come from, and where does it go?
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Funds come from membership dues, gifts, endowments, memorials, the annual book sale, and the library book sale cart.
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Money is used for Friends’ projects and for library needs outside the regular budget allowance.
Board & Officers
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President: Tom Heutte
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Vice President: Judith McQuerry
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Secretary: Heidi Ekstrand
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Treasurer: Lisa Scarborough
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Kim Cool
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Maureen Eldridge
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Clair Fitzpatrick
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Nina Hopps
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Licha Kelley-King
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President-Emerita: June Dahl