December 2019
Dear Readers,
If you recently came to the Friends of the Library sponsored Holiday Book Sale and bought books, let me take this opportunity to thank you for supporting your library. The majority of our collection budgets come from Friends donations. We are eternally grateful to all of our dedicated Friends and volunteers (just under 150 people) who pitch in regularly and in numerous ways such as staffing book sales, outreach visits (preschool outreach program - Appalachian Reading & Literacy for Early Learning), advising on behalf of the community (library board), preserving history (Digital Watauga), shelving, cleaning, summer book delivery (Reading & Rolling), book sorting, income tax assistance, managing the Endowment, and tutoring with the Watauga Literacy Association.
We counted
4310 volunteer hours from November, 2018 - October, 2019
A grateful holiday salute to all of you and happy holidays to all of our readers!
~Monica Caruso
County Librarian
