Here’s one example of a success story from http://www.lisnews.org Together, Aaron’s Books and the Lititz (PA) Public Library sponsored the first “Lititz Loves Reading Week”. There are other examples of getting a discount off the price of a new book with your library card, etc. Don’t forget that indie bookstores can make valuable partners for your library, they need and deserve your support and they are almost always willing to lend theirs.

Thanks for sharing your partnership stories Dan. Your Fire Side Concerts series reminded me of something I saw when I visited the Saratoga Springs Public Library in upstate New York. I can’t seem to avoid snooping around every local library when I travel. The library in Saratoga is a great library, and they had a special audio collection featuring CDs of musicians that play at a local venue called Caffe Lena, which is “widely known as the oldest continuously operating coffee house in the United States”. Kind of cool, I wonder if there are other libraries out there featuring audio collections that are supplied by local music venues…?

During summer reading program we solicit various prizes from our business community. They in turn receve recognition of helping the community.

We went to the business community in August to bring in Western recording artist Juni Fisher, for the first of our Fire Side Concerts. The businesses were then included on all of our advertising and received two “free” tickets to the event for every $50 donated.

We work with the local banks, quilt shops and Barnes and Noble to fund, as well as promote our quilt show each fall.

We are also planning a motivational speaker and book signing for October 25th. We have the program scheduled for 10:00 a.m., which seems to be an odd time, but in our community many business people take break at that time. We made a special pitch for this motivational program in the chamber of commerce newsletter.

Those are just a few of the partnerships that we do.