Consider Joining the Friends Board of Directors
At this time of the year, we are looking for new board members to join us for the coming year, which starts in June.
We would love to have you become part of our active Board of Directors in planning and working at Friends’ events, setting goals for the future and coordinating with our Library partners on funding programs and activities for the community. Come and help us build strong bonds with our volunteers and other community groups.
If you love the library and love helping the community, we’d love to talk to you. Beginning in July, board meetings will be held on the third Wednesday of the month at 6 PM. Any additional time commitment is completely up to you and your schedule.
If you have new ideas, want to help plan events or just want to hang around with a bunch of book lovers like yourself, please contact Sharon McMahon at 805-368-1347 or mcmahonre@yahoo.com.
Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library is a California-based group of avid library advocates dedicated to enhancing the Thousand Oaks Library with support services and intellectual and cultural programs that enrich the lives of area residents of all ages.
The role of auxiliary library groups like the Friends has become more critical in light of escalating budgetary constraints, and the library-affiliated needs of a growing community.
The organization was initially founded as a committee in 1961, and later achieved its IRS non-profit status. It continues to be run exclusively by volunteers, some of whom have been involved for more than twenty years!
Friends’ financial support of the Thousand Oaks Library to date has made possible the acquisition and/or sponsorship of:
- 3,600-gallon aquarium in the Grant R. Brimhall Library
- Thousands of books
- Electronic reference
- eBooks
- Spoken word
- Playaway
- Maps
- Rental books
- Spanish language books
- Early childhood literacy computers
- One City, One Book program
- Two stages for the Community Room at the Grant R. Brimhall Library
- Portable stage
- A grand piano
- Graphics computer equipment
- Two computer projection systems
- Library internships
- After-school programs
- Library staff appreciation gifts and special events
- Reading programs
- Children’s mural
- Audio-visual equipment
- Lectern/podium with sound system
- Special programs featuring musicians, musical and dance groups, storytellers and authors
- Cultural tours
- Summer reading programs for children and teens
- Book discussion groups, and more!
The Friends also raised more than $50,000 of the $100,000 shortfall in funds needed to replace books lost in the 1994 earthquake.
Please visit our Membership page to learn more about the benefits of becoming a Friend and the Endowment Fund page to learn how your donation could benefit present and future generations of library patrons. Membership dues and donations are used exclusively for the benefit of the Thousand Oaks Library.