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A Unique Way to Honor Someone & Support the Library

Recognize someone with a customized bookplate in a new Library book. Tribute gifts help our Library provide thousands more books, dozens more programs and more life-changing support to anyone in our community who needs it.  

Tribute Ideas

Honor a special holiday or birthday.  Remember a loved one. Celebrate a birth. Commemorate a marriage or anniversary. Thank a teacher.
 

Personalized Bookplates

For each tribute, we will inscribe a new book with your honoree's name and a special message. Donations can be made by an individual, a group, or a company.

One-Time Tribute

For every $50 donated, our librarians place a bookplate inside the front cover of a hardcover book inscribed with the donor’s name and the person or event honored/remembered.

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Endowed Tribute

Gifts of $500 or more will be added to our book endowment and support our Library for years to come. For every $500 donated, a bookplate inscribed with your message will be placed in 12 new Library books in the year your gift is received.

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Tribute Bookplates

Tribute Bookplate

Your custom bookplate will be placed in a new Library book... which your donation helps purchase!

 

Tribute Bookplate close up

Bookplates are inscribed with the person honored space for a short custom message such as "In honor of Grandma Grace on her 80th birthday"

 

Quotes from past tribute donors

"Patrica loved libraries. She thought they were vaults of knowledge."

"My mother passed away last year and I thought this a wonderful tribute to her as she was a teacher most of her adult life."

"He was an avid reader and his love of learning fits perfectly with your organization."

"Libraries –like teachers– are essential to giving everyone a chance to thrive."

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receive a special library-inspired birthday message.

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Your donation ensures that our Library serves everyone.