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The Wellesley Free Library Centennial Fund
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You can support a local business and the Wellesley Free Library at the same time. When you click on the Wellesley Booksmith link and make a purchase, the Library receives a commission on each sale!
When you shop here:
You support the Wellesley Free Library! Amazon.com donates a percentage of Every sale originating from this site to the Library.
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THE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL FUND
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The Centennial Fund was founded in 1983 (on the Library's 100th birthday) as a permanent endowment to "enrich and enhance" the basic Town-funded collection. Since that time, the Fund has given roughly $900,000, including 24% of the FY09 materials budget, to the Library.
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Centennial Fund Trustees
Caleb Aldrich
Beth Hinchliffe
Morris Kellogg
Norma O'Reilly
Linda Perlmutter
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The Centennial Fund provides funds which allow the Library Director to experiment and build collections that would otherwise not be possible; purchase exciting new databases; and showcase evolving materials formats. In addition, the Fund provides enhancement grants for collections whose usage has increased. The Fund has enabled the WFL to establish a legacy of the highest quality specialized reference materials, art and coffee-table books, foreign-language film DVDs, classical music CDs, and special editions.
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Centennial Fund Founding Trustees
Katherine Babson
John Wilkins
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The Centennial Fund is a qualified Massachusetts Charitable Trust and all gifts to it are tax-deductible. The Fund has unrestricted funds for general purchases and three endowed book funds for special collections.
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To Donate to the Centennial Fund
Donate online or:
Make checks payable to the WFL Centennial Fund and Mail to
WFL Centennial Fund
C/o Wellesley Free Library
530 Washington St.
Wellesley MA 02482
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| For information on Naming a Collection through the Centennial Fund, please contact Linda Perlmutter. |
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HONORING WELLESLEY AUTHORS
If you've wanted to meet a Pulitzer or Nobel Prize-winner, or talk with someone whose books have been on the New York Times bestseller list or who is well-known in the Boston media (Boston Globe, Boston Herald, WCVB-TV), you'll have your chance at the Wellesley Authors's Reception. Thursday April 15th, from 7-9 p.m. in the Wakelin Room at the Wellelesy Free Library. Dozens of our hometown authors will be takeing part, and all Wellesley residents are welcome to attend. The event is organized by the library's Centennial Fund celebrating its Silver Anniversary of supporting the library's collections, having given $906,000 over the past 25 years.
Living Wellesley authors also include a former U.S. Poet Laureate; the author of the Rebecca "American Girl" doll series; nationally-renowned chefs; award-winning children's authors; internationally-acclaimed poets; a writer whose book became a movie; and many more.
For more information about the Authors' Reception, or if you're an author who would like to have your name added to the master list, contact the Centennial Fund Trustees at centennialfund@aol.
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