Otsego District Public Library
INNOVATE • INTERACT • INSPIRE
How to Start Your Business
George Fotis, Certified Business Consultant, Michigan Small Business Development Center
Thursday, March 26 at 7 PM
This seminar will help you assess your readiness for entrepreneurship, evaluate the viability of your business concept, understand the steps to starting a business, and take advantage of business planning tools.
The Otsego District Library is excited to offer 1000 Books Before Kindergarten to local preschool aged children(Established in Fall 2016), along with ten other Allegan County Libraries! ODL is leading the way on this program for Allegan County. The Allegan County Library Association has partnered with the Allegan County United Way and Volunteer Center. The Allegan County United Way and Volunteer Center has given a $7000 grant to fund supplies for the children of Allegan County for five years! Developing literacy skills begins at birth and continues through toddler and preschool years. The best way to ensure a child has the skills necessary to learn to read is having someone read aloud to them. A well written picture book is three times richer in vocabulary than conversation. Talk, sing, read, write, and play with your child to help them get ready to read. Visiting the library with your child also helps instill the excitement for reading into their life!
Sign up at your home library and get your welcome packet and first tracking sheet. Bring back your tracking sheet after you have read your first 100 books together and get your bookmark and sticker. After each tracking sheet come back to the library for another tracking sheet. Visit the library ten times throughout the program to pick up your tracking sheets. When you have read 1000 books, return to the library for a special prize and photo opportunity/celebration. Most importantly, read for the fun of it and enjoy the time with your child!
Check out the 1000 Books Before Kindergarten Apple App by the 1000 Books Foundation once you register your child at your home library.
Sign up at the library for our easy, fun, FREE, new 1000 Books Before Kindergarten program for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers! Any child that has not started kindergarten this fall is eligible to participate. Anyone in Allegan County can sign up at their home library for this program. Tell your Allegan County friends to check their libraries for this exciting program!
This club meets on the 4th Monday of Month at 2 PM.
The library is partnering with the Arc of Allegan County, a non-profit organization supporting individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. ALL adults are welcome to connect, create and explore some fun activities. There will be additional volunteers available to offer support to participants. If one-on-one support is needed, please bring a support person with you.
Craft Day
March 30 – Come get crafty with your friends!
Up and Coming Meetups
April 27 – STEAM Day – Explore some fun STEAM-focused stations.
The Otsego District Public Library (ODPL) is a vital, vibrant, well-run organization that serves as a valuable resource for the community. Every day, our patrons tell us how proud they are of ODPL. Our mission is to enrich the community by connecting people with information, each other, and the world. We do this through emphasizing customer service, offering creative programming, useful technology, and building a beautiful collection relevant to community needs. You know that because you are one of the library’s 16,303 awesome patrons. Our welcoming staff does an outstanding job, and our Friends of the Library volunteers donate over 1,500 volunteer hours per year to support the library efforts.
The library team truly strives to be fiscally responsible stewards of the public funds.
Highlights include:
ODPL is proud of the service and resources we provide the community and the library has been in good stride.
This is our tenth year in our building.
We have several specific requests for community support:
We have developed a wish list for smaller items as well. If you would like to gift the library one of our wishes, find a link to our Amazon Wishlist on our website and Facebook Page.
There is so much the library could do with additional revenue from generous community donors.
We have set a goal of fundraising $26,500 from our community supporters. These projects are outside of our regular budget parameters.
Please join with us; you will truly make a difference.
Your support will help position us to continue to provide the quality library materials and facility you love and deserve.
Please consider adding the library to you list of annual giving so that we may preserve our vision to maintain the best library around!
A donation form is found below for your convenience. You can also make a donation in person at the library, over the phone via credit card, or through the PayPal DONATE button on our website homepage. The library is a non-profit, so consult with your tax adviser because your donation is most likely tax deductible! We are happy to send you an acknowledgement receipt for your donation.
Any amount helps. If just 530 patrons gave $50 we would hit our goal. We have heard so many voice their support of the library, and we greatly thank you for your support.
“There’s no place like home!”
Andrea Estelle, Library Director
Diane DeVries, Assistant Library Director
Jacqueline Bennett, Board President
Robin Rowe, Board Vice President
Nancy Seibert, Board Secretary
David Goodrich, Board Treasurer
Laurie Andrus, Board Trustee
Bart Seelye, Board Trustee
Now, if you are able, we ask for your help.
Thank you for being a great library patron and for your support of your hometown library!
The Otsego District Public Library (ODPL) is a vital, vibrant, well-run organization that serves as a valuable resource for the community. Every day, our patrons tell us how proud they are of ODPL. Our mission is to enrich the community by connecting people with information, each other, and the world. We do this through emphasizing customer service, offering creative programming, useful technology, and building a beautiful collection relevant to community needs. You know that because you are one of the library’s 16,303 awesome patrons. Our welcoming staff does an outstanding job, and our Friends of the Library volunteers donate over 1,500 volunteer hours per year to support the library efforts.
The library team truly strives to be fiscally responsible stewards of the public funds.
Highlights include:
ODPL is proud of the service and resources we provide the community and the library has been in good stride. This is our tenth year in our building. We have several specific requests for community support:
We have developed a wish list for smaller items as well. If you would like to gift the library anything this holiday season, find a link to our Amazon Wishlist on our website and Facebook Page.
There is so much the library could do with additional revenue from generous community donors.
We have set a goal of fundraising $26,500 from our community supporters. These projects are outside of our regular budget parameters. Please join with us; you will truly make a difference. Your support will help position us to continue to provide the quality library materials and facility you love and deserve.
Please consider adding the library to you list of annual giving so that we may preserve our vision to maintain the best library around!
A donation form is found below for your convenience. You can also make a donation in person at the library, over the phone via credit card, or through the PayPal DONATE button on our website. The library is a non-profit, so consult with your tax adviser because your donation is most likely tax deductible! We are happy to send you an acknowledgement receipt for your donation.
Any amount helps. If just 530 patrons gave $50 we would hit our goal. We have heard so many voice their support of the library, and we greatly thank you for your support.
“There’s no place like home!”
Andrea Estelle, Library Director
Diane DeVries, Assistant Library Director
Jacqueline Bennett, Board President
Robin Rowe, Board Vice President
Nancy Seibert, Board Secretary
David Goodrich, Board Treasurer
Laurie Andrus, Board Trustee
Bart Seelye, Board Trustee
Now, if you are able, we ask for your help.
Thank you for being a great library patron and for your support of your hometown library!
During Library Open Hours
Follow the yellow brick road to meet the Wizard of Oz in our large program room. Bring the whole family to join Dorothy, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Lion, and Toto as they make their way through the land of Oz. The cost to play this family-friendly fundraiser is $1 per person or $5 per family (children 2 and under are free). Proceeds from this event will go toward new toys and literacy-based activities in the Rise & Shine Early Literacy Center.
This event is sponsored by local businesses, so please contact the library if your business would like to sponsor this event. Hopefully you will discover that “there’s no place like home!”
Saturday, January 25 at 10 AM
Lions and Tigers and Puppets, oh my! In this classic heart-warming tale, children of all ages will watch with bated breath as a Kansas cyclone whisks Dorothy off to Oz where she befriends Scarecrow, Tin Woodsman, and Cowardly Lion. Together they set off on a journey to find the Wizard of Oz while evading the delightfully silly Wicked Witch of the West.
World leaders in puppetry for over seventy-five years, Stevens Puppets bring this tale to life with artfully hand-carved wooden marionettes and a musical score you are sure to be humming all the way home.
Don’t miss “The Wizard of Oz!”
January 2 – March 31
Sign up to be part of our Adult “Read & Dine” Club this winter! Read ten books and you could win a Kindle Fire HD or a $25 gift card to a local restaurant.
Reading logs will be available at the circulation desk starting January 2.
