Board of Directors Karen W. Smith President Linda Greene Vice President Tessie LaRose Ballard Secretary Martha O. Blaxall Treasurer Samuel J. Brown Jane Campbell-Chambliss
ANNE ARUNDEL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION LIBRARY FOUNDATION
For the love
Your Gifts in Action: SMARTBoards Donations to the Anne Arundel County Public Library Foundation enhance the offerings and services that would be impossible under limited library funding. Recently, the library introduced SMARTBoards at a few branches. Donors like you made it possible to equip even more branches with this exciting technology. The SMARTBoard is a collaborative learning instrument that offers high-quality interactive displays. Essentially it is a state-of-the-art touchscreen computer and a whiteboard in one. In the library, the SMARTBoard is used as a dynamic tool to promote kindergarten readiness. A digital version of the book displayed during storytime: • allows the enlarged images and text to be viewed by all, • helps increase vocabulary, attention and reading comprehension and • encourages interactive play, where children can have “magic fingers” as they turn the page or highlight a word with their touch.
of the library
Katie Prechtl Cooke DeDe Duncan-White
making your library BETTER Mary S. Hagerty Stephen R. Holt Stacy L. Korbelak Ian Marchanti Don Rau Diane Rinaldo Skip Auld AACPL CEO and ex-officio Ishani Gandhi ex-officio Damita McDonald ex-officio Cathleen Sparrow Executive Director and ex officio
Save the date for our biggest fundraiser of the year: For the love of the library! Friday, September 22, 2023
A SMARTBoard showing pages from Pete the Cat at a children’s storytime, at left, and illustrating detailed instructions at a craft event for adults, above.
AT THE MICHAEL E. BUSCH ANNAPOLIS LIBRARY Tickets will go on sale in August at aacpl.net/librarylove .
Supporting your library can be really delicious!
You helped scoop our way to a $2,563 donation! Thank you Always Ice Cream for being a fantastic community partner and helping to make the library better! Email foundation@aacpl.net if you think the ice cream flavor If You Give A Moose A Cookie should make a comeback.
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