Love Your Library? Support the ICPL Friends Foundation for Johnson County Great Give Day on May 7 The Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation invites all library lovers and community champions to take part in the third annual Johnson County Great Give Day, happening May 7, 2025. This collective day of giving celebrates the incredible work of nonprofits across Johnson County—including the Iowa City Public Library.
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Wednesday, Apr 16, 2025
Love Your Library? Support the ICPL Friends Foundation for Johnson County Great Give Day on May 7 The Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation invites all library lovers and community champions to take part in the third annual Johnson County Great Give Day, happening May 7, 2025. This collective day of giving celebrates the incredible work of nonprofits across Johnson County—including the Iowa City Public Library.
Friday, Apr 4, 2025
Are you ready for a night of creativity, community, and library love?
Tuesday, Mar 11, 2025
Join us for a brilliant evening at the Iowa City Public Library as we celebrate and support our Library! “Bright Future: Celebrating the Iowa City Public Library” is a special after-hours fundraising party at dedicated to fostering appreciation and growth of our beloved library taking place at the Iowa City Public Library on April 11, 2025 from 7:30 pm to 10 pm.
Wednesday, Mar 5, 2025
JOIN THE ADVOCACY ALERTS EMAIL LIST Join the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation's advocacy mailing list and become a champion for our community's beloved library! If you give us your email address, the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation will send you advocacy updates regularly and when urgent needs arise. Sign up here: https://bit.ly/ICPLFF-Advocacy
Friday, Feb 28, 2025
Join us for a used book sale in the ICPL's Meeting Room ABC starting Friday, February 28, 2025. 5:30pm to 7:00pm and continuing on Saturday, March 1st from 10:00am to 3pm! Shop an assortment of fiction, non-fiction, cookbooks, young adult, juvenile fiction, children’s books, DVDs and audiobooks. All sales support the Library and its programs, collections, and facilities. Visit www.supporticpl.org for more information about book sales and supporting the Library.
Tuesday, Jan 28, 2025
Join us for a brilliant evening at the Iowa City Public Library as we celebrate and support our Library! “Bright Future: Celebrating the Iowa City Public Library” is a special after-hours fundraising party at dedicated to fostering appreciation and growth of our beloved library taking place at the Iowa City Public Library on April 11, 2025 from 7:30 pm to 10 pm.
Thursday, Dec 26, 2024
As we close in on the end of 2024 I want to thank everyone for their support of the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation. Whether you advocated for the Library as a Library user, wrote a letter of Library support to legislators, donated used books to our book sales, volunteered, or made a donation, your support helps to strengthen the Iowa City Public Library into the future! Thank you. Your support helps us to support programs, staff learning, technology, collections, and more at the ICPL!
Saturday, Nov 23, 2024
Libraries transform to meet the needs of their communities. Some of the earliest public libraries in the eastern U.S. included the word ‘free’ in their names to signal a shift from earlier models of libraries as private institutions, which charged membership fees and were typically accessible only to white, affluent men (Garrison, 1979). The Civil Rights Act of 1964, which outlawed segregation in public spaces, further expanded access to libraries.
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About Katie
Katie Roche works at the Library as the Development Director of the Iowa City Public Library Friends Foundation, which works to inspire every member of our community to support the Iowa City Public Library as a Library user, volunteer, or donor. Katie loves to read widely and especially enjoys reading in anticipation of events featuring writers reading from their books and in conversation about their writing.