Friends of the Library in Oxford is participating in Give Local this April!
This 36-hour online campaign unites donors, businesses, and local charities to provide much-needed support for our community.
This year, our goal is to double our contribution to the Hoopla digital service Oxford Public Library offers the community. With your contribution, we will be able to increase the daily spending limit on the Hoopla App and make the wonderful audiobooks, e-books and other digital materials more accessible to the Oxford community!
Find our donation page here.
We meet at 10 am on the
2nd Friday of each month at Oxford Public Library.
The Friends of the Library in Oxford (FOLIO) is a 501c3 non-profit organization whose purpose is to maintain an association of persons interested in the Oxford Public Library; to focus public attention on library services, facilities and needs; and to stimulate gifts, endowments and bequests to the library. FOLIO also provides supplementary programs, service and equipment to increase the scope and effectiveness of the Oxford Public Library and to raise funds to that end.
ACTIVITIES
PROGRAM & EVENT SPONSORSHIP
The Friends of the Library sponsor many exciting programs and events at the library every year, such as a community open house, holiday concert, and a visit from Santa!
FUNDRAISING
Because the Friends aim to sponsor as many programs and improvements to the library as possible, fundraising is a critical component of our work. In the past, we have hosted holiday raffles, sold engraved bricks, and participated in the Oxford High School Booster Club's Festival of Trees.
HOOPLA
The Friends help the library provide the digital service, Hoopla, which gives library users access too e-books, audiobooks, movies/tv, music and digital magazines!
BOOK SALES
The Friends host bi-annual book sales (in May and November). Proceeds help raise money to support the library. Ahead of the book sales, we have donation collection days outside of the library.
"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man."
T. S. Eliot
CONTACT THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY IN OXFORD
49 Great Oak Road, Oxford, CT 06478