Smithville, while not a TBF recipient, received some grants, too! Congratulations!
Laurie Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street Austin, Texas 78756 www.ctls.net [email protected] 512-583-0704 x18 800-262-4431 x18 ________________________________ From: Judith Bergeron [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 23, 2009 1:50 PM To: Laurie Mahaffey Subject: Smithville grants:-) Laurie, Congratulations to the recipients of the Texas Book Festival Awards! While we cannot boast of a Texas Book Festival grant, I am going to shamelessly take this opportunity to tell you of a few that we have been awarded! We're pretty excited about them: "Friends of the Smithville Public Library" was awarded a Union Pacific Foundation grant for program support (Summer Reading Program, Literacy Programs, and our historical digitization project). We received the check this week. SPL received an award from the J. Frank Dobie Trust this month. (I believe Taylor also received this one). And the smallest, but possibly my favorite, because the books are sooooo cool is the We the People Bookshelf with the "Picturing America" theme - which goes so well with our Picturing America artwork. The We the People Bookshelf is a collaboration between the ALA and the National Endowment for the Humanities. We received a total of 22 books worth just under $500, but they are amazing books. Congressman Lloyd Doggett stopped in last weekend to see them and pledge continued support for the Arts & Humanities. For more info on the We the People Bookshelf go to http://www.wethepeople.gov/bookshelf/index.html Thanks for the opportunity to share the good news! --Judy ________________________________ Judith M. Bergeron Smithville Public Library 507 Main Street Smithville, TX 78957 TEL: 512/237-3282 ext. 2424 CELL: 512-848-5377 FAX: 512/237-4549 email: [email protected] website: www.smithvillepubliclibrary.org <http://www.smithvillepubliclibrary.org/>
