National Library Week & Food For Fines

April 7-13, 2019, is National Library Week, an annual celebration highlighting the valuable role libraries, librarians and library workers play in transforming lives and communities. Libraries are at the heart of their cities, towns, schools and campuses. They have public spaces where people of all backgrounds can come together and connect. From Sunday, April 7 through Saturday, April 13, T.B. Scott Free Library celebrates National Library Week with an opportunity to forgive your fines and give back to the community, along with refreshments on Wednesday, April 10, for all to enjoy. Refreshments: On Wednesday, April 10, cookies and coffee will be available until gone in the lower lobby. Fine Freedom: The library wants Merrill library patrons…to have a clean library card! If you have library fines, clear them up and help others in need through the 20th annual Food for Fines event at T.B. Scott Free Library during National Library Week. For every dollar of library fines you owe, bring one food item to T.B. Scott Free Library’s circulation desk and your fines will be forgiven, up to $50 of fines for 50 food items! Food donations will be given to the Merrill Community Food Pantry. Fines will still be collected from patrons without food items to donate. While food donations can be applied to fines, they can’t be used to offset lost or damaged material charges. Donation suggestions include: cold cereal, ramen noodles, egg noodles, elbow macaroni, macaroni & cheese, canned fruit, fruit cocktail, corn, spaghetti sauce, kidney beans, pork and beans, Jell-O, powdered milk, sugar, Spam, rice, instant potatoes, crackers and toilet tissue. Please refrain from donating food in glass containers or dented cans, and please do not bring expired or nearly expired items. Even if you don’t owe fines, cash or food donations to the Merrill Community Food Pantry are still welcome. Learn more about the library and what’s happening there by calling 715-536-7191 or visiting www.tbscottlibrary.org or T.B. Scott Free Library on Facebook.