Read a Story While You Walk!
The Smyrna Public Library Story Book Walk is a fun way for everyone to enjoy literacy, physical activity, and nature. The Story Book Walk is located at 400 Enon Springs Road W. in Smyrna's J.J. McWilliams Old Rock School Park. The story begins adjacent to the fountain pond in the where you may see turtles, birds, and frogs enjoying the water. To read the pages of the storybook, follow the paved greenway trail around the library. You will see the Story Book Walk signs posted along the way. As you move along the Story Book Walk trail you will also see the new playground equipment recently installed by the Town of Smyrna Parks and Recreation Department. Make sure to visit the Story Book Walk each week. A new storybook is installed on the Story Book Walk each Thursday morning.
The Smyrna Public Library encourages local businesses, organizations, and individuals to support this literacy program by becoming a Story Book Walk sponsor. For a donation of $150 to the Smyrna Public Library, the Story Book Walk sponsor chooses from a selection of books to be displayed on the Story Book Walk for one month. The sponsor's name and logo are also on display on the Story Book Walk for the month. Be a part of the outside reading fun at the Smyrna Public Library, be a Story Book Walk sponsor today!
Friends of Linebaugh Library Celebrates 40th Anniversary
 Founded in July of 1981, the Friends of Linebaugh Library (FOLL) is celebrating its 40th anniversary. The goals set for the organization in 1981 remain the same: to stimulate interest in enrichment of the resources and facilities of the Linebaugh Public Library; to provide an opportunity for those interested in the library to participate through exhibits, programs, and publications; and to attract bequests and gifts, books, manuscripts, other library materials, and money above and beyond resources of the library. MTSU Professor Dr. William Beasley was elected as the first president, and the first book sale was held in July of 1982.
Author Wilma Dykeman was selected as speaker for the first Author Dinner. Over the years author luncheons and dinners have featured Lamar Alexander, Peter Jenkins, Sena Jeter Naslund, Brenda Rickman Vantrease, Stephen Womack, Sharon McCrumb, Robert Morgan, Robert Hicks, and more. The Friends Pen Pal programs have brought children’s authors/illustrators into the library and to city and county schools.
As new branches have been created, FOLL has extended its support to Myrtle Glanton Lord Library (MGL) at Patterson Park, Technology Engagement Center (TEC), and the Bookmobile, buying equipment such as a refrigerator, computer desks and chairs, patio equipment, and both an ice and a popcorn machine. It has purchased books, computers, and software. FOLL has also contributed $18,000 towards utilities at the TEC for its first three years.
 Book sales expanded from an annual sale to quarterly sales, and now include two member sales and eight public sales each year.
The Friends also now has an eBay store where used and donated books can be sold to a wider audience. To celebrate our 40th anniversary, the hugely popular $2/bag books found in Linebaugh Library will be sold for $1/bag for the month of July.
Memberships can be purchased at Linebaugh, MGL, and TEC as well as on the Rutherford County Library System website under “Support Groups.”
Friends of Linebaugh Library is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization formed in 1981 to promote the library and its activities through exhibits, special programming and library materials beyond the regular resources of the library.
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