“Every community has a little library.”
Connie Sparenberg, Librarian of Earl Park Library
 |
| Photo by Phil and Pam Gradwell |
Read a good book lately? Marian Delp of Earl Park, Indiana (population 437) has. In fact, Ms. Delp reads lots of good books. It’s what she does with them when she’s finished that makes this a story worth retelling. She doesn’t leave them lying around or sitting on a shelf. No, she donates her books to the Earl Park Library. And because Ms. Delp reads lots of books that means lots of donations. Earl Park Library has 25,000 books—30 percent of those are from Ms. Delp, as are 100 percent of its audio books and 95 percent of its DVDs. The library is grateful and eager to pay the favor forward. It borrowed a page from Ms. Delp’s playbook recently when it sent a box of books to a nearby prison in response to its pleas for a few good books.
No comments:
Post a Comment