Friends of the Library groups

Friends Groups in GA

Attached is a document showing responses to a 3-question survey of public library directors. The survey asked:

1) Do you have at least one Friends of the Library group in your system? (If not, you can skip the remaining questions.)
2) Approximately how much money does your most successful Friends group raise each year?
3) Do any of your Friends groups have 501(c)(3) status from the IRS?

There were 40 responses, and here is a summary of results:

37 systems have at least one Friends group.
3 systems do not have a Friends group

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Wally Eberhard – Libraries Count on Loyal Friends

Libraries count on loyal Friends

By Wally Eberhard

For the Journal-Constitution

Monday, January 05, 2009

All of Georgia’s publicly funded institutions are on a forced economic diet these days, and your public library isn’t exempt.

But most have a loyal group of Friends —- that’s uppercase, please —- to help them out.

So the patrons of the Hart County library in Hartwell can still count on getting the New York Times top 10 fiction and nonfiction books each month. The library’s Friends group is paying for them.

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