Help us raise $25,000 for Arts & Music in 2009
The Arts Matter!
Help us sustain and improve
Arts & Music resources.
Did you know that:
- We need to increase our Arts, Music and Media offerings to keep up with demand and innovations?
- Each year we conduct an annual fund drive for a special project?
- 2009’s Annual Project focuses on Arts & Music (Dance, Music, Theater, Film, Visual Arts and Art History)?
- For every dollar you invest in the library, we provide $10 in services?
- We need your support for this community treasure?
In Our 2008 Community Survey:
- Patrons overwhelmingly rated the Arts & Music department and collections among the most important features of Forbes Library.
- Patrons asked for more, more, more DVDs, Music CDs, Playaways, and Books on CD.
We need your support this year.
Our Wish List:
- More circulating media in all formats
- Additional CD and DVD display units
- Lighting for the Graphic Novel area
- Large glass display cases for gallery artists
- More musical instruments to circulate
- Professional photography of our Fine Arts collection to create a guidebook and accessible database
- Digitization of historic photographs
Your tax deductible support of $10, $25, $100 or even more will ensure that Forbes Library is equipped to offer equitable and free access to arts resources for everyone in our community.
You can make a secure donation to the Forbes Library Annual Fund by clicking the button below. All payments are handled through PayPal.
President Barack Obama has said:
"Our nation’s creativity has filled the world’s libraries, museums, recital halls, movie houses, and marketplaces with works of genius. The arts embody the American spirit of self-definition. To remain competitive in the global economy, America needs to reinvigorate the kind of creativity and innovation that has made this country great. … The real purpose of arts education is to create complete human beings capable of leading successful and productive lives in a free society."
—from A PLATFORM IN SUPPORT OF THE ARTS
