Who we are:

• Friends who know that our community needs and benefits from a first-rate library. 

• Friends who are interested in promoting the library by improving its services, resources, and community role.

• 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:

• Summer Reading Club support

• Book sales

• Blueberry Arts Festival booth

• National Library Week activities

• Library Special Requests (purchases, subscriptions, activities)

• Alaska Digital Library audio- and e-books

• Teen Advisory Group support

• 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?

• Funds come from membership dues, gifts, endowments, memorials, the annual book sale, and the library book sale cart.

• Money is used for Friends’ projects and for library needs outside the regular budget allowance.

 

Board & Officers

• President: Tom Heutte

• Vice President: Judith McQuerry

• Secretary: Heidi Ekstrand

• Treasurer: Lisa Scarborough

• Kim Cool

• Maureen Eldridge

• Clair Fitzpatrick

• Nina Hopps

• Licha Kelley-King

• President-Emerita: June Dahl