30 Maine libraries awarded Rudman Library Trust grants
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Thompson Free Library in Dover-Foxcroft is one of 30 in the state to get a grant from the Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust this year.
ELLSWORTH — Libraries in seven of Maine's counties have been awarded grants to help bolster their collections from the Rose and Samuel Rudman Library Trust, through the Maine Community Foundation.
Grants totaling $22,363 have been awarded to 30 libraries in Aroostook, Hancock, Knox, Penobscot, Piscataquis, Waldo, and Washington counties.
The grants, which range from $300 to $1,000, support programs and activities that creatively and practically integrate with a library’s collection. The trust was established in 1986 by Samuel Rudman, who was struck by the commitment of local libraries to learning and reading, according to a news release from the Maine Community Foundation, which administers the trust. Rudman and his wife wanted to encourage libraries in smaller communities to continue and expand programming and outreach with small yearly grants.
2019 grants were awarded to:
Blue Hill Public Library, to replace, upgrade, and expand the foreign-language audio collection;
Brooksville Free Public Library, to buy audiobooks for adults and coordinate a series of author visits during the summer of 2019;
Caribou Public Library, to update and expand the library's audiobook collection;
Carver Memorial Library Association, Searsport, to develop the children's nonfiction collection in the areas of self and social skills, information literacy and technology, and languages and bilingual books;
Dorcas Library Association, Prospect Harbor, to upgrade the large print collection with newer titles in general fiction, mysteries, and non-fiction;
Friends of the Thomaston Public Library, to add Maine children's book award nominees for the children's library, to work towards series completion for a number of popular authors, to add to the selection of romance novels and to augment audiobook selections;
Guilford Memorial Library, to update the large print book collection with new and current titles for the elderly outreach program;
Hope Library, for speakers and books, to support sessions on topics of interest to patrons;
Jackson Memorial Library, Tenants Harbor, to replace and rebuild the children's fiction and nonfiction titles covering the history and literature of the indigenous people of the U.S.;
Jesup Memorial Library, Bar Harbor, for books to provide resources and programming to the community to help them be leaders in the effort to "nurture the public good in word and deed";
Liberty Library Association, for books to welcome the seniors in the community to the library and support the programs "Weathering Shame" and "Old Coots";
Lincolnville Community Library, for a Maine author series and books;
Long Lake Public Library, St. Agatha, to update preschool and elementary school- level books to serve the increasing population of children;
Mildred Stevens Williams Memorial Library, Appleton, to expand an collection of audio books for adults and juveniles;
Millinocket Memorial Library, to empower a group of local teens to select relevant and enriching books for the Young Adult collection;
Newport Public Library Association, to update the adult nonfiction collection;
Peabody Memorial Library, Jonesport, to enhance the large print book collection;
Searsmont Town Library, for the "Maine Outdoors and In" project, including book and periodical purchases, writer and speaker presentations and activities;
Shaw Public Library Association, Greenville, to develop a collection of titles on the opioid addiction crisis;
Southwest Harbor Public Library, to enhance the collections of graphic novels for children and adults;
Swan's Island Educational Society, for books in support of the "We Were an Island" program;
Franklin Library, for continuing a project to update the library's book collection and to replace worn and damaged materials;
Thompson Free Library, Dover-Foxcroft, for books in support of the children's and middle school book bundles program;
Town of Hampden, for current country books for middle grade students;
Town of Stetson, for extensive collection development and modernization of the children's non-fiction section;
Trustees of the John B. Curtis Free Public Library, Bradford, for collection development and the replacement of author/illustrator books for the summer Read-to-Me program;
Vose Library, Union, to buy Chickadee Award winners as well as Maine Student Book Awards titles;
Waldo Peirce Reading Room and Library Association, Frankfort, to update the children's and young adult collections, and to buy books for the summer reading program;
Washington Library Association, to add award-winning books to the children's collection, and to further develop the pre-school and adult collections;
Witherle Memorial Library, Castine, for books in support of the library's Maine Writers program.
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