ORIENT — Children from the Orient-Macksburg School are reading new books recently received from the Libri Foundation. Sixty-eight new picture, chapter and informational books are now on display for children to check out at the Orient Public Library.
The Friends group from the Orient Public Library contributed $350 which the Libri Foundation matched on a 2-to-1 ratio. Thus, the public library received $1,050 worth of new, quality, hardcover children’s books through the Foundation’s BOOKS FOR CHILDREN program.
Local librarian, Sharon Mensing, familiar with the needs of the library and the community, selected the books the library received from the Foundation’s 600-title booklist.
“The new books for the elementary-age children are some of the newest and best books published,” Mensing said. “Local children will be checking out the new books for the next few months, during the summer and throughout the next several school years”.
The Libri Foundation, located in Eugene, Ore., was established in 1989 for the sole purpose of helping rural libraries acquire new, quality, hardcover children’s books they could not otherwise afford to buy. Since October 1990, the Foundation has donated more than $5.8 million worth of new children’s books to more than 3,300 libraries in all 50 states.