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Salmon Falls Library 2021-2022 Monday 3-6pm, Wednesday 4-7pm, Thursday 3-8pm, Saturday 9-noon This year the SFL increased its membership by 25 households and 45 individuals. We spend a lot of every year weeding to make room for new books, as well as reorganizing. We created a new section for Large Print books that had been scattered throughout the Library. Many of the books and CD’s that we weeded were donated to the Maine State Prison library and a new volunteer did monthly pickups for Goodwill. We revived the Book Club, which had disbanded during the pandemic, as there was no interest in meeting virtually. We started with a new group of people who were interested in Zooming and were later able to transition to meeting in person. SNL also ran a Summer Reading Program from June to August, which involved keeping a reading log and getting prizes each time books were returned. This year 12 kids signed up. With a grant from the Maine State Library, we purchased art supplies: paints, brushes, table easels, pallets, canvasses and long tables for Paint Nights. “Paint Bars” are very popular throughout the country; the goal is to all paint the same scene with instructions from the artist/instructor. Everyone leaves with an 11 x 14 painting and hopefully, enjoys the creativity and socializing. We continued subscribing to the Bibliotheca Cloud Library e-book borrowing service through the Maine State Library and Tumbledown, a free reading resource for kids and teens. Through the off and on nature of the pandemic, we had a steady stream of patrons: • 64-69 patrons per month • 1,237 items checked out this year • 3-4 people used the computer each month • 8-10 days every month volunteers worked in the library As usual, we are so grateful to our volunteers who fill in for the Librarian’s vacation/ sick time and perform numerous other tasks such as shelving, weeding, rearranging, removing books from the system and checking out books. They help to make the library a warm and welcoming place to visit.

Respectfully submitted, Lynn Ericson, Library Director

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