Form for gifts from $1-$100

Today’s Date
LIBRARIES BUILD STRONG COMMUNITIES
Donor Information (please print)
$50
Name
Address
City, State, Zip
Telephone (home, business, cell)
$75
$25
Other amt.
2014 BUILDING CAMPAIGN
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I have enclosed (check 0ne) $100
GIFT FORM
Return this form with your contribution, cash or check, to any Shelby County Library: Anna, Botkins,
Ft. Loramie, Jackson Center, Russia, or Amos Memorial Public Library in Sidney.
Please make checks payable to Shelby County Libraries with “building” on the memo line.
(For gifts in an amount greater than $100 please contact library director Suzanne Cline at 492-8354 Ext. 102.
A DYNAMIC LIBRARY BUILDING on OUR
COMMUNITY STRENGTHS
Shelby County Libraries are committed to quality
and service to the public. We share a sense of
community pride which is reflected in our schools,
our businesses, our hospital, our churches and
our social organizations. Our vision is to build a
dynamic library that reflects the strengths of our
community.
The library serves the entire community by providing
services and materials for personal improvement.
We are a bridge over the digital divide, a partner
in promoting literacy, a source for technological
assistance, a local history archive, a cultural center,
and a community gathering place. The library
connects the people of Shelby County with worldwide
resources for self-guided lifelong education.
Amos Memorial
Public Library
230 E. North St.
Sidney, Ohio 45365
(937) 492-8354
Your financial support of this project will not only
enhance library services for the community, but will
also enhance the community itself. Libraries are key
players in economic development and growth. A
renovation to the facility in Sidney will help revitalize
the downtown area and improve the quality of life
for Shelby County residents. To complete this
project, the Library Board of Trustees is conducting
a 3 million dollar capital campaign. The funds will
be combined with current capital reserves of $1.8
million dollars to build a $4.8 million facility that all
of Shelby County can be proud to support and enjoy
for years to come.
The 2014
Campaign
to expand
and upgrade
the Library
1ST FLOOR PLAN
The need for Library services
remains strong in Shelby County.
• Eleven computers--in the only computer lab in the area which is open to everyone--handle upwards of 2,500 sessions per month.
In 1958, Amos Memorial Public Library opened
at its current location at the corner of Miami
Avenue and North Street, but in the decades
since then, while serving a growing population
with changing needs, the building itself has
experienced no growth or change. The Shelby
County Libraries Board of Trustees has decided
to move forward with an expansion plan that
will provide one integrated and upgraded single
facility to continue to serve not only the citizens
of Sidney, but also the community locations and
all the residents of Shelby County.
The children’s area has felt the confines of limited
space, and teens need an area set aside for their
specific programming. With the rapid increase
in technology, keeping current means upgrades
to the present system and space to provide those
services now and in the years ahead.
The expansion will also allow the community
to gather for programs and large-group
presentations, as well as to meet with small
groups in rooms that can serve for study or
conferences.
2ND FLOOR PLAN
•
Study and social spaces have been reduced or eliminated to make way for a collection that has grown from 35,000 items in 1958 to nearly 98,000 items available for loan in 2013.
•
Circulation of materials has grown as well, from 105,000 items in 1958 to nearly 429,000 in 2013 -- or 8.68 items per person in Shelby County. Approximately 70 percent of those items are circulated at the Sidney location, and of the remaining 30 percent circulated at
the community locations, 50 percent are housed in Sidney.
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Besides the physical resources contained in the building, programs offered for adults, teens, and children attracted more than 12,000 people to educational and cultural events in the last year.
• Each month, more than 10,000 people walk through the library doors in Sidney.
This project focuses on increasing technology,
improving spaces for children, expanding the
teen area, and increasing the size and comfort of
all study, work and programming areas.
It includes a new two-story addition to the north
of 9,450 square feet, plus a one-story community
room added to the west of the addition, and
updating the existing mechanical and electrical
systems from the 1950s. This will result in the
existing building expanding from approximately
17,700 sq ft. to approximately 28,600 square feet.
A parking lot will be built to the northwest of the
existing building.