Evergreen's Library - A Community Resource

The Evergreeen State College Library is a dynamic organization with facilities, resources and staff dedicated to excellent service for both the Evergreen campus and the surrounding communities. The library is such a valuable community resource that nearly a third of its users are non-students. With a collection of more than 240,000 volumes, many computerized data bases, 1600 journals and magazines, and extended hours of operation, the Library has much to offer people in and around Thurston County.

The Library is more than its collection. Whenever the Library is open, the reference staff is there to answer questions and, more important, to help people find their own answers.

The Media Center is also available, with excellent facilities and services such as VCR stations, audio tape dubbing and slide previewing, all provided with basic assistance from staff to help users get started.

The college archive, many musical and spoken cassettes and the rare books collection all await campus and community patrons as well.

Friends of the Evergreen State College Library works to support this great community resource. The Friends organizes programs and events to bring the campus and the community together. The Friends also holds regular membership meetings in conjunction with readings, and work to raise funds to help the Library provide the best service possible for both campus users and the surrounding community. This becomes especially important at a time when competiton for state funds is intensifying, and the Library is challenged to maintain its high standards with increasingly limited resources.

Through its membership dues and fund-raising activities, the Friends has been able to contribute $15,000 to the Library Endowment Fund.

Resources derived through fund-raising activities are targeted to needs such as:

1. Increasing the library's collection in areas known to require greater depth (such as multicultural materials, environmental studies, foreign language materials, management studies and video and film materials);

2. Purchasing automated and media equipment;

3. Supporting the college archive; and

4. Funding special one-time projects such as cataloging the extensive audio recording collection.

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Student/Senior $10
Individual $25
Household $40
Supporting Member $60
Sustaining Member $100
Patron $250
Benefactor $500
President's Club $1000 or more
CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

Print and Mail to: Friends of the Evergreen Library
c/o The Evergreen State College Foundation
Olympia, WA 98505

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Made by: Steve Metcalf
Library Administration
(360)867-6260
E-mail:metcalfs@evergreen.edu
Last modified: 05/01/02