| Free Bookmobile Establishes Two More Permanent Neighborhood Libraries |
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Written by admin, March 30th, 2012
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 Friends of the Sonoma Valley Library President Janet Constantino, a young patient, and Dr. Jerome Smith celebrate the new books on offer at the Sonoma Valley Community Health Center With the success of the first mini-library at Landpaths Bayer Farm on our minds, we couldn’t help but jump at the chance to do it again when we were contacted by Dave Dobbins of the Friends of the Sonoma Valley Library. He and his group have been approaching the other non-profits in Sonoma Valley, particularly those that serve the low-income residents of the Springs area, to inquire about installing books and shelves to benefit their patrons. The response was positive, and with the Friends’ books temporarily inaccessible to them, they asked us to help out.
Of course we were delighted to do so! This past Tuesday we brought boxes and boxes of carefully selected titles to both the Sonoma Valley Community Health Center and the Valley of the Moon Teen Center to fill their empty bookcases (plus a nice big bin for kids’ books at the clinic). Photos of these new Neighborhood Libraries can been seen in the Photo Album section of our Facebook page, and the Sonoma Index-Tribune published an article about our visit to the Health Center:
http://www.sonomanews.com/News-2012/Bookmobile-makes-stop-at-health-center
It’s very satisfying to know that when the Free Bookmobile has to be elsewhere, these folks can keep on finding great reading material. Now we’re on a roll and are looking forward to the chance to create additional havens of literacy all over the county!
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