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2021 ANNUAL REPORT
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Awards
- Best of Stafford: Porter Branch
- Fredericksburg Parent’s Family Favorites: #1 for Family Fun, Best Indoor Activity
- Grow a Reader Storytimes: Top Pick for free things to do for family fun
- Paws for Reading program: Top Pick for online kids activity
- Virginia Library Association's Up and Comer Award, opens a new window: Babak Zarin, Access Services Librarian
- Giant Food Community Bag Program:, opens a new window Porter Branch
Innovation
- Audio-visual Booth at IdeaSpace: Making + Media, opens a new window
- Distributed 12,000 Free Rapid At-Home COVID-19 Test Kits, opens a new window
- Launched Economic and Workforce Development Newsletter
- MakerLab Badging at IdeaSpace: Making + Media, opens a new window
- Tech on the Go equipment at IdeaSpace: Making + Media, opens a new window
Grants
- Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) American Rescue Plan for Westmoreland Library on the Go vehicle, opens a new window
- Library of Virginia American Rescue Plan Act sub-grant for electronic materials
- Fred Ex Community Grant for expanding wifi into neighborhoods surrounding Salem Church Branch
- Fredericksburg Charitable Savings Foundation for SMART Boards at several library branches, opens a new window
Partners
- Library of Virginia: Virginia Deaf Culture Digital Library, opens a new window
- Virginia Department of Health: COVID test kit distribution and mobile testing events
- Red Cross: Blood drives at library branches, opens a new window
Services
- Fredericksburg Branch improvements, opens a new window
- HelpNow Online Tutoring for all ages
- In-person programs resumed: Art Shows, Music on the Steps concerts, Notary Services, and Lobby Stops to assisted living facilities and senior apartments
- LinkedIn Learning
- Summer Lunches for residents 18 and under
- Virtual programming: Grow a Reader Storytimes, Lunch & Learn, Rappahannock Writers' Conference
- Year-round Reading Challenges