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The Wilsonville Public Library Foundation Board of Directors elected officers at the Annual Meeting on January 9, 2018. President   Caroline Berry Vice President   Reggie Gaines Secretary   Miriam Pinoli Treasurer   Steve McConnel Congratulations! While the Library remodel is in progress our Board Meetings will be held off site. If you would like to attend a meeting, please contact us. 2017 was a successful year for us and we look forward to another successful year in 2018.  

On this Thanksgiving Day we are thankful for all who support our Library with donations to the Wilsonville Library Foundation. With your help we fund programs for all ages that Ignite a passion for reading in young children – Imagination Library Fire up the imagination of school age children – Summer Science Adventure Stimulate curiosity and lifelong learning – Curiosity Cafe, History Pub Facilitate early literacy – Outreach to children and caregivers at day care facilities We

City of Wilsonville MEDIA RELEASE OrePac Building Products Recognized for $10,000 Contribution to the Wilsonville Public Library Foundation    WILSONVILLE, OR � The Wilsonvillle Public Library Foundation recognizes OrePac Building Products for support of public computing and Internet access at the Wilsonville Public Library with a $10,000 contribution. The cash donation is part of a larger five-year commitment  by the company to help the Library improve opportunities for public access to computers and Internet services at the

We’ve had a good year. Deborah Gitlitz, our Outreach Librarian, has been making contact throughout the City to parent groups, apartment houses, and anywhere else folks gather to take early literacy messages to families. She has been visiting a Head Start program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. She’s been meeting with Hispanic parents at Boeckman Creek Primary. And she’s been an important Spanish language resource for the library, including building our Spanish language collections. This year

Ms. Mitsui Asai who is 83 gave a great talk on Japanese Internment during WWII at the February History Pub. She included many personal notes from her experience as a young deportee and what it was like being shunned in the Hood River area after the family’s return. She sent us the following note: “Dear Wilsonville Foundation members, Thank you for the honorarium for my slide presentation yesterday. As one of the founding members of the Friends

Jan Rippey is holding a birthday cake to celebrate the 4th Anniversary of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library in Wilsonville. There are currently about 700 Wilsonville kids signed up to receive books once a month until they turn 5 years old. Over the last 4 years nearly 500 kids have graduated from the program. The program was brought to the City  by the Kiwanis Club of Wilsonville. It receives significant funding from Joe Restic of Wilsonville Orthodontics, the

OrePac Building Product’s recent donation of $5,000 for technology improvements and Xerox’s donation of $5,000 for the endowment fund will help the library thrive. The continued support from these local businesses of the Wilsonville Public Library Foundation makes a heartfelt and positive impact on our community.  

This novel by Anthony Doerr was the selection for the 2015 Lake Oswego Reads program. Local artists created works themed on the book. You can see their interpretations on the Wilsonville Public Library’s art wall during the month of November.  

Our June Artist of the Month is local photographer Michael Strubel. Michael’s work can be seen on the Art Wall next to the New Books shelves. Here he is in his own words: I began taking pictures in the 60’s in Vietnam. I was drawn to the people, how their faces reflected their hearts. Though it was too painful for me to keep those photos I did keep a fascination with seeing and saving the beauty of