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Public libraries depend on the support of governments, corporations, foundations and individuals to help them provide free services to their patrons at their buildings and on the Internet.

Some Ways You Can Contribute to Your Library

  • Donate time, money and expertise to your library
  • Nominate your library as a community, school or corporate project for the year
  • Buy your library a subscription to a popular magazine
  • Honor a friend's or a relative's birthday with a book donation to the library
  • Donate a book or a shelf of books
  • Remember the library in your estate plans
  • Write a check to your library's Foundation or Friends organization
  • Give to the library through your company's matching program for charitable contributions
  • Consider a tax deductible gift to your library. 

Be A Friend of Your Library

Join the Friends of the New Hanover County Public Library, an association of members and volunteers, who provide fundraising and other assistance to the library system

  • Donate your used books and audio/video items to our semiannual book sale
  • Volunteer to work at our used book sales 
  • Offer your skills to help with our programs and fundraising events
  • Ask how you can become a member of our Board of Directors
  • Attend our Annual General Membership Meeting

Volunteer at Your Library
  • Offer a committed helping hand to your library's staff
  • Become a literacy or computer tutor
  • Shelve books or nurture plants
  • Present an adult program
  • Read stories to children or help with class visits
  • Mend materials or maintain local information or history files

Advocate for Your Library

  • Attend meetings of the New Hanover County Commissioners and urge support of the public library
  • Write letters to county commissioners and state legislators on behalf of library funding
  • Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper or call a local radio talk show and express your support of the library
  • Discuss your  library, its programs and its funding, with your friends, neighbors, relatives and co-workers
  • Speak up on behalf of the library at meetings of other community groups: PTO, Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, League of Women Voters, and so on.  Invite a librarian to address your group on library services and needs
  • Participate in Library Legislative Day activities in Raleigh