Donations and Volunteering We can always use both--with our thanks! Help build the new library! We will need plenty of help building the new library. This means that we'll need construction labor, equipment, and supplies. We'll need help writing grant proposals. We'll need help with the design and the landscaping. We'll need materials! Everything required to build a building, from screws to wiring to concrete, we will need. Contact the librarians for more information if you think you'd like to help out with the actual nuts-and-bolts construction or organizing, and please come to our planning meetings! Help maintain the current one! If you wish to volunteer to help at the library, there is plenty to do. Regular volunteer work includes sorting through book donations, cataloging new items, shelving books and other library materials, taking duplicates and rejected donations down to the Ester Post Office Book Exchange or Gulliver's, and general tidying of the library as needed. Contact a librarian for more information: 479-3368 (Deirdre) or 479-2797 (Kate). Buy a T-Shirt!
Our first batch of t-shirts use the black & white line drawing, above, on lots of different colored t-shirts, long and short sleeved, and in men's and women's styles. Shortsleeved shirts are $15, longsleeved $20. The second batch are all longsleeved, and feature the logo as a small uppe right chest patch. These shirts come in a variety of strong colors: red, kelly greeen, blue, orange. The shirts are available at the Ester Republic office and from the librarians. To order a shirt, contact the librarians at library[at]esterrepublic.com. Buy at Donating Merchants! Some local merchants have donated a percentage of their proceeds to the library! PhotoSynthesis donates money from the sales of the 2007 Women in Ester calendar. Buy a Name Plate! Another way to help fund the library is to buy a name plate that will be affixed to a bookshelf, thereby dedicating that shelf to the person of your choice. Plates are $50. Please let us know if you want it associated with a particular author or section, and we will try to attach it nearby. Please make checks payable to either the Ester Community Association or the John Trigg Ester Library. Cold Hard Cash Any time you'd like to make a straight cash donation, just send us a check made to John Trigg Ester Library, PO Box 24, Ester AK 99725. We deposit donations to our checking and savings accounts, to be used for rent, supplies, and for our building expenses. (The land is paid off!) We hope to begin construction in spring 2008, so whatever you can send will be used very soon! Office Supplies We can always use office supplies. Materials needed for the library include blank library cards, card pockets (preferably with sticky backing), bookends, Avery 5160 inkjet printer labels, pens, envelopes, and glue sticks. Right now we are in desperate need of bookends! Donating book credit One way to donate to the library is to provide us with funds so that we can buy books of the librarians' choosing. Gulliver's Books will take your used books and apply the credit to the Ester library's used book credit account, if you ask them to when you bring in your old books. That way we can purchase books for series missing volumes, or books requested by the membership. Book Donations Right now, we just don't have room to take any more books. So please, if you have books you think would be good for the library, hang on to them for a little while longer, until we have our new building and more shelves to put them all on! Thank you! | |||
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