Celebrate and support the Montclair library (Letter to the Editor) - Montclair Local

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The Montclair Public Library. (ERIN ROLL / FILE PHOTO)

National Friends of Libraries Week takes place Oct. 17 to Oct. 23. To celebrate, we wish to thank Montclair Public Library’s Board of Trustees, Library Director Peter Coyl, as well as our wonderful librarians and maintenance and support staff.

With limited resources, they restored evening and weekend hours the Main Library and the Bellevue Avenue Branch Library, with all Main Library floors and Bellevue Branch levels open to patrons for visiting. The Montclair Public Library offers new technologies and innovative formats.

The Montclair Library Friends and the Friends of the Bellevue Avenue Library are supporting the Library and enhancing its effectiveness through community advocacy. Our volunteer members donate their time and talents by raising public awareness, organizing community events and stimulating use of library facilities.

We are committed to maintaining a high-quality library for our community and sustaining the concept of free access to ideas and information for everyone, because many Montclair residents could not otherwise afford the publications, databases and software that the library provides free to all. The Montclair Public Library offers new technologies, innovative programs and essential services to all age groups from children and teens to adults and seniors, such as Senior Center in a Box, featuring kits focusing on specific activities and themes.

While substantial progress has been made in restoring the library’s budget to pre-pandemic levels, much more needs to be done. We ask for the community’s support in obtaining funds to fully restore the Montclair Public Library’s services.

SAVE MONTCLAIR LOCAL: We need your support, and we need it today. The journalism you value from Montclair Local, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, depends on the community's support — we exist because the old model of selling ads alone just can't fund journalism at the level we endeavor to provide. That's why you've seen other local newsrooms cut back staff or shut down entirely. Montclair Local was created because we believe that's unacceptable; the community's at its best when triumphs are celebrated, when power is held to account, when diverse lived experiences are shared — when the community is well-informed.

Montclair is seeking to raise $230,000 from donors, members and grantors between Oct. 1 and Dec. 31 to put us on firm footing for 2022, and continue supporting the hard work of our journalists into the new year and beyond. Visit MontclairLocal.news/donations to see how we're doing and make your contribution.

Edward Robin, Montclair Library Friends Steering Committee
and Cordelia Siporin for the Friends of the Bellevue Avenue Library

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