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Items funded by the Friends of the Library


Funded 2000 - present

  • Baby book bags
  • Book Badge Club
  • Book bags for checkouts
  • Books for "Every Child Ready to Read"
  • Building artwork
  • Desktop magnifier for visually impaired
  • Digital video camera
  • Donations for Do the Dewey
  • ESL Materials
  • Film license
  • Film WWII series and discussion - Rosie to Roosevelt
  • Flags and stands for meeting rooms
  • Friends Family Sunday programs
  • Grand Opening refreshments
  • Hearing assistance for meeting room sound system
  • Information rack - west hallway
  • Inglés sur Barreras for mobile library
  • Magic show
  • Magnets
  • Monart program (art for children)
  • Mural and screen for storytime room
  • Music performances
  • Piano and bench for performances
  • Poetry workshops
  • Portable stage for meeting room programs
  • Shakespeare on CD
  • Slide projector
  • Sound system for meeting rooms
  • Staff Thank You party
  • Statue of Young Lincoln Learning
  • Summer Reading Club activities, prizes, party
  • Sunday Afternoon Movies
  • TV with VCR and DVD player
  • Two new DVD players

Funded 1954 - 2000

  • Adult's and children's art prints
  • Art display panels
  • Author's festival
  • Books
  • Cabinets
  • Cassettes for the blind and visually handicapped
  • Computer equipment
  • Computer room with three stations
  • Concerts 
  • Display cases
  • Film projectors
  • Films
  • Friends Family Sundays
  • Furnishings for Friends Meeting Room
  • Great Books discussions
  • Lectures
  • Microfiche reader/printer
  • Microwave ovens for staff
  • Piano
  • Reading machine
  • Risers and platform truck
  • Tape player for blind and physically handicapped
  • TTY communication device for the deaf
  • TV and VCR, TV stand
  • Video projection unit
  • Viewer for visually impaired
 
1501 Ellinwood Street, Des Plaines, IL 60016   (847) 827-5551
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