Our Friends Foundation Fund

Events, News

We are excited to launch a fundraising campaign to help establish a $10,000+ fund inside the West Lafayette Public Library Foundation.

This fund will allow the Friends to grow their investment in the Library and continue to assist wherever needed.

If you would like to help contribute financially to the fund, please click the button below. When making your donation, please include “Friends Fund” in the note with the donation to specify that you want this money to go towards our new Fund.

The Fund is being designed to help address programming, materials, and other project needs, allowing the Friends to expand on the work we have done through our easy to use Microgrants program.

Past Microgrants have supported:

  • The Dune Book-to-Movie Discussion and Viewing Group
  • Winter Reading Program Prizes and End of the Program Party
  • Summer Reading Program Bags
  • Game of Thrones Trivia Night
  • Adult Craft Nights
  • End of the Semester Study Snacks
  • Create Your Own Holiday Cards Table

If you would like to help support the Friends Fund, you can make a donation here.

Curbside Pick-Up Available Now!

News

Contactless Pickup is in full swing at the West Lafayette Public Library.

1. To utilize, place holds via the phone (765-743-226) or through your Evergreen account (http://evergreen.lib.in.us/eg/opac/home)

2. Wait for your hold confirmation e-mail.

3. Head to the Library.

4. Call the Library (765-743-2261) when you arrive, waiting outside.

5. A staff member from the Library will place your books into the vestibule. Please wait until they leave the vestibule to pick-up your materials.

6. Enjoy!

Please help us spread the word!

2019 WLPL Summer Programming Spotlight

News, Programming

[Guest post by Ashley Schoolman, Reference & Teen Librarian, and Ashley Meyer Cataloging & Reference Librarian]

Now that we’ve been abruptly plunged into winter, it’s nice to think back to warmer days. 

Every year, library staff work hard to create a fun Summer Reading Program that includes valuable ways to bring the library and community together. Many patrons are still enjoying the summer kick-off art installation created by local artist Bekki Canine with financial support from the Friends. To close this year’s Universe of Stories-themed SRP, West Lafayette Public Library partnered with the Wabash Valley Astronomical Society to open the West Lafayette Observatory to library patrons and community members on August 3rd.

While waiting for darkness to fall, library staff offered an astronomical spelling bee and attendees could create a planisphere with materials provided by WVAS. Throughout the evening, about 150 patrons wandered through the Observatory and grounds to watch slideshows about new NASA missions and the Solar System, use outdoor telescopes to view the rings of Saturn, the moons of Jupiter, and the Ring Nebula, and to get an up-close look at the surface of our moon through the Observatory’s installed 16” telescope.

Thank you to the Friends of the West Lafayette Public Library for providing refreshments for the evening and an honorarium to demonstrate our thanks to WVAS for their time, materials, and to support them in continuing their great work!

Learn more about Wabash Valley Astronomical Society at wvastro.org.