First, let me thank you for being a customer of the Durham County Library! The library strives to provide you with top-notch resources, programs and services. As a library customer, you know, use and enjoy the library. The library had more than 2,000,000 visits last year! Your tax dollars help to fund the basic costs of running the library. But so much more is funded through generous donations to the Durham Library Foundation. We need your support today to provide a margin of excellence at the Durham County Library.

Your support of the Durham Library Foundation makes possible:

• Summer Reading Program for children and adults
  Serving more than 20% of Durham’s children and helping to prevent “summer slide,” so that children retain knowledge for the next school year.
• Collection Development
  Funding large print, audio and children’s books and augmenting a collection budget that has been hard hit by recent cuts.
• Early Literacy - “Get Set, Get Ready…Let’s Read”
  Providing hundreds of pre-schoolers with the skill sets for reading and learning success that they would otherwise not receive.

We know that times are tough and that we are all trying to find ways to stretch our resources. The library has also felt that impact, and we need your support more than ever. As someone who loves and utilizes the library, your donation is invaluable in providing the “margin of excellence” that you have come to expect.
Your gift matters. Please give today.

Ann Craver, Durham Library Foundation President

The Durham Library Foundation develops and encourages the long-term financial health and growth of the Library through annual gifts, endowment and capital contributions.