Lincoln County Library System

You’ve read through the winter, & now

 ….let’s celebrate

Stop by the Kemmerer library

 - Thursday, April 8,

 - between 4 & 6 p.m.

For everyone who participated in the Let it Snow Reading Program

                        Grand Prize Drawing

A booklight for everyone who completed the program

                 CHOCOLATE-COVERED  STRAWBERRIES!

           Great Bargains

                                       at the

Kemmerer Library’s USED BOOK SALE

                   April 21-24

     Hardbacks $1.00    Paperbacks $.25

  April 24 is Bag Day – All the books you can fit in a bag -                            just $5.00

                                            Register daily for drawings!

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse

                                      All proceeds go to the library’s Endowment Fund.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!

Celebrate READING at the library…

• Tuesday, March 2,
• after school,
• in the Kemmerer Library.

Everyone is invited!

Win a beautiful quilt & support your libraries!

Raffle Tickets available at all libraries–$1 ea. or 6 for $5.

All proceeds go to the Libraries’ Endowment Fund and will be matched 2 to 1 by the state–$5 for tickets + $10 match from the state = $15 for the endowment fund.

Cokeville residents, Kelsey & McKay Teichert made and donated this lovely, queen-sized quilt in shades of pink and green. 

Betty Hansen, also of Cokeville made and donated this huggable baby quilt.                                                                    

  The quilts will be displayed in each of the Lincoln County libraries:

• LaBarge          Feb. 1 – March 12
• Kemmerer      March 13 – April 26
• Cokeville        April 27 – June 4
• Star Valley     June 5 – July 16
• Thayne            July 16 – Aug. 27
• Alpine              Aug. 27 – Oct. 1

Drawings will be October 4, & you do not have to be present to win.  THANK YOU!

    Let it Snow! Reading Program

• Program runs December 10, 2009 – March 31, 2010

• Read or listen to 10 or more library books to complete the program. 

• Get a prize!  Everyone who finishes the program receives a flexible booklight.

• Take the “Reading Challenge” and read five additional books from the lists provided.  Enter your name in the Grand Prize drawing.

• Come to a “Let it snow somewhere else” on Thursday, April 8, 4-6 p.m., just for participating.

                          …the Endowment Fund Challenge

To date, the Lincoln County Library Endowment Fund has received $31,253 in donations and $62,367 in matching dollars from the state .  Because of your generosity, we have made great progress in our first year of fundraising for the endowment…but we have a ways to go.  We are eligible to receive 2:1 matching dollars on donations up to $147,826.  Our goal is to take full advantage of this unprecedented opportunity to receive two dollars for every dollar donated.    Thank you & best wishes for 2010!          Updated 01/05/10 

The 2008 Wyoming State Legislature set aside $9.1 million in matching funds to encourage establishment and growth of library endowments.  Lincoln County libraries are eligible to receive a 2:1 match on donations up to $147,826.  Every dollar donated, up to that amount, will be matched by the state with an additional two dollars.                                                                                          

When libraries statewide have raised $2.3 million cumulatively, each of the state’s 23 county library systems will receive an additional $100,000.  At the end of the fundraising period, June 30, 2013, we could have an endowment of over $550,000.

Tax deductible contributions may be made online by clicking on the “Foundation” tab at the top of the page or by mailing your check to Lincoln County Library Foundation (LCLF) Endowment Fund, 519 Emerald Street, Kemmerer, WY 83101.

Crime & the Cultural Landscape

Wyoming Humanities Council book discussions

                                                                                                                                                                        January 19, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett

 February 16, Listening Woman by Tony Hillerman

 March 16, Devices and Desires by P. D. James

 April 20, Black Cherry Blues by James Lee Burke

Books available at the Kemmerer library.  All discussions are 7 p.m.