How the Friends Help

The Library Friends contribute up to $90K in support each year. Their funding comes from steady FriendShop Bookstore sales and annual membership dues. The store is staffed entirely by volunteers, so every dollar benefits the library.

Want to help? Join the Library Friends or volunteer in the store.

Made possible with support  from the Library Friends:

• Great Authors at the Library series bringing world-class authors to Champaign
  
• New books and ebooks to the library’s collection

• iPads & new activity cubes for children’s area
• Children’s & teen summer reading programs
• Ready Set Read! early literacy program
• Battle of the Books competition for grades 3–5
• Teen afterschool programs
• Juneteenth Emancipation Celebration at the Douglass Branch

• In Concert at CPL live music series
• National Library Week activities
  
• Live! Music for Kids summer series
  

• Online learning resources
  
• Beautification of library grounds