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Friends File - October 2025

National Friends of the Library Week is Coming. Join in the Celebration!

October 19-25 is National Friends of the Library Week. An excellent time to revisit the Friends’ mission, including what the Friends of Weeks Library do for the library and the Town of Greenland.

The Friends of the Library is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose purpose is to the support the work of the library. They do this in several ways. They provide funds for adult programming, which enhances education and culture in our community.

In addition, the Friends also support children and teen programming. The offerings of the Summer Reading Program would be not be possible without the financial support of the Friends. Mindful of the constraint of the library budget, the trustees and staff look to the Friends for those “extras” that make for a rich experience at Weeks Public Library.

The Friends also provide for fun events over the holidays. These programs often bring multiple generations together. We all know how important socialization is for everyone. Having a beautiful, safe environment makes the library an amazing place for these events. The staff often come to the Friends with ideas that they would like to fund. Typically the Friends are eager to be supportive.

Our Friends group was honored with the Susan Palmatier award in 2022 for the New Hampshire Friends group of the year. Much of the reason for that honor is that the mighty group of citizens from Greenland, ably led by Stuart Bauder, raised close to $500,000 in support of the completion of the new addition to the library. Such a feat seemed impossible but it happened. Without this support, the library might still be just a dream.

The Friends are now at a crossroads with the need for additional members and people who are willing to step up in leadership roles. With the current budget climate and the cuts in funding for libraries, it will be more important than ever to have a strong Friends group that can continue the good work that has always been done for the library.

We Friends all hope you will become a new Friend!

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The Friends of the Weeks Public Library is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization comprised of volunteers dedicated to encouraging and promoting our beautiful new library and enhancing its many services.

We cordially invite you to join the Friends. We meet the second Monday of every month (except for July and August), at 6:30 p.m. in the library’s Conference Room.

The Friends of the Weeks Public Library provide:

Annual Summer Reading Program and reading incentives
Youth programs and holiday events
Adult programs that contribute to Greenland’s educational and cultural life
Ongoing book sale
Public support and good public relations for the library

We are independent of the library’s Board of Trustees and focus our energies on providing financial support for items not covered in the town budget for the library. Since our beautiful new library is now four times larger than before, those needs are greater than ever. Please help us ensure that the Weeks Public Library delivers the services, resources, and programming that we have all come to enjoy. Won’t you become a member?

Would you like to join the Friends? To view our brochure, click here.

National Library Workers Day

We recently celebrated National Library Workers Day on April 25th, and the Friends of the Weeks Public Library presented our staff with a nice plant and a gift card! We cannot thank our beloved staff enough for their loyalty & dedication to our library, and we're "Forever Grateful" to the Friends for their continued support & recognition of our wonderful staff!

Awards

On Nov. 17, 2022, Katrinka Pellecchia of the New Hampshire Library Trustee Association presented the Friends of the Weeks Library with the 2022 Sue Palmatier Award for Friends Group of the Year. Friends Stuart Bauder, Debra Miesfeldt, and Phyllis Picha gleefully accepted the award. This award was in recognition of the Friends' successful "Bookmarking the Future" Campaign to raise funds for the renovation and addition to the Weeks Public Library in Greenland, NH. The reception was held in the living room of the library's newly renovated historic building.

Fundraisers

We are Forever Grateful! The Friends of the Weeks Public Library are pleased to announce that we received a February grant of $6,156.78 from The Fabulous Find in Kittery! We were thrilled to be the recipients of such a generous donation which will be used to provide enhanced library services to the Greenland community. The Friends of the Weeks Public Library is so grateful for this amazing grant and honored to be part of The Fabulous Find’s long tradition of giving back to the community. We cannot thank them enough for selecting our library as a grant recipient and know that our library patrons will also be thrilled.

Fabulous Find is a boutique-style resale shop at 139 State Rd. (Route 1) in Kittery that identifies non-profits to support with the boutique’s income. All profits from the boutique are donated each month to local non-profits. The busier the month, the greater the donations back to the community. You can learn more about The Fabulous Find at their website: http://www.thefabulousfind.org.

The Weeks Public Library is located at 36 Post Rd. in Greenland and offers a wide array of library materials, programs and ever-increasing services to Greenland’s youth and adults. We have recently greatly expanded our facility and are expanding services and programming to satisfy the growing need. Our grant received from The Fabulous Find will assist us in those efforts. Please stop in soon or visit us 24/7 at weekslibrary.org.