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Be a star. Fill a jar. It's Friends of the Library Week!
Be a star. Fill a jar. It's the 20th Annual National Friends of the Library Week, October 19th - 25th, 2025. Pick up a coin jar at the Gilman Library on 100 Main Street, Alton, and fill it with your loose change to benefit the Friends. While you are at the library, please consider joining this fabulous Friends Group.
Next Meeting November 6th
Unless otherwise posted, the Friends of the Gilman Library organization meets on the first Thursday of each month at 3:00 PM, in the Friends Corner of the John D. and Anna L. Williams Room (the adult wing) of the Gilman Library. Meet with Friends and bring a friend.
Hello, Friends!
We hope you will consider joining or renewing your membership and encourage your friends to do so. Just stop by the library to renew and get a membership card. Members are eligible for special discount days during the year. Our “Friends Corner” has an extensive collection of books and DVDs as well as handcrafted seasonal decorative items for sale.
Friends’ activities are posted on the Gilman Library website and the Gilman Library Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram accounts, as well as four Alton Community Facebook pages and The Baysider.
Friends of the Gilman Library
The Purpose of the Friends of the Gilman Library
The Purpose of the Friends of the Gilman Library shall be to maintain an association of persons interested in good library service and in books: to increase the facilities and services of the Gilman Library, and thus to increase the cultural opportunities available in Alton. The activities of the association:
- Sponsor special Library projects
- Inform the public of the resources of the Library
- Secure materials that are beyond the Library budget
- Perform other services deemed helpful to the Library
December 2, 2021 - Holly Brown recognized by The Friends
At the end of the meeting, the Friends presented Holly Brown with a delicious candy-filled, white chocolate sleigh and card expressing their appreciation in acknowledgment of her twenty-five years of public service as the Gilman Library Director.