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…
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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…
Guess who has a birthday on Valentine’s Day? The State of Oregon and the Wilsonville Public Library, and probably a few other noteworthy institutions. The Library Foundation and the Friends of the Wilsonville Library invite you to celebrate the Library’s 35th birthday. Please join us for cake and coffee on Tuesday February 14 starting at 2pm in the Library Board members from the Foundation and the Friends will be on hand to serve cake until we run…
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…
Our January Artist of the Month is local artist Rinse de Koning. Rinse’s work can be seen on the Art Wall next to the New Books shelves. About the artist: Rinse Jan de Koning was born in The Hague, The Netherlands (also known as Holland) in 1941. He was educated through the Montessori system and then attended the College of Hotel-Restaurant Management there. He emigrated to the United States in 1965 and first made his home in…
The Wilsonville Public Library Foundation Board of Directors invites you to our Annual Meeting on Wednesday, January 21, 2014 at 6:30 pm at the Wilsonville Public Library Meet the Directors who joined our Board recently, hear about our accomplishments in 2014 and find out about our goals for 2015. We wish you all a happy and healthy new year!