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Dear Friends of Noyes,
Like a favorite children's book, the Noyes Children's Library is warmth and security, fun and adventure. It's a place to launch your child's love of books and reading, and a place to gather and celebrate the magic of young minds awakening.
The idea of NO Noyes Library is awful - so awful that when the county threatened to close the Library due to budget cuts in March of 2010, the public outcry brought the Noyes Children's Library Foundation - founded in 1991 during a similar crisis - out of hibernation and back into a public-private partnership that funds the operating costs of Noyes.
So Noyes is a YES - for now. Through individual donations, grants, sponsors, and special events, the Foundation raised the money for FY 2011, and made a good start on FY '12. But here's where you come in. Magic isn't free. We need to complete basic funding for FY 2012, and we need to fund the joint effort by Montgomery County Libraries and the Foundation to enhance Noyes Library.
Click here to find out how you can help.
The Noyes Children’s Library nestles among towering trees and Victorian homes in historic Kensington, Maryland, offering a book-filled haven for young children and their families. Founded in 1893, Noyes is the oldest public library in the Washington D.C. area – predating the current Library of Congress by four years – and a modern-day center for early literacy initiatives.
Despite its history and place in the fabric of the community, Noyes is vulnerable to the current county budget crisis, and was scheduled to be closed in July 2010. The Noyes Children’s Library Foundation – founded in 1991 during a similar crisis – responded to the community outcry and convinced the county to renew the partnership that had kept the Library open throughout the 1990’s.
The doors of Noyes are open today because the Foundation has committed to providing all the funds Montgomery County would have saved by closing it - about $55,000 per year. Future budgets and possible enhancements to the Library – including ADA renovations – are also being discussed.
But the Foundation needs your help. Click here to learn more.
If you represent an organization interested in becoming one of our sponsors, click here.
Noyes Library • 10237 Carroll Place • Kensington, MD (map)
Open Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday 9-5 and Wednesday AM for special programs
