NEWS RELEASE
COLLINGWOOD PUBLIC LIBRARY
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Collingwood Public Library offers 20 different titles to area book clubs. To date, all have been generously funded by 19 area book clubs and Friends of the Library. Book club kits are a new, exciting addition to the collection. Each contains eight copies of a popular book, discussion questions, sign out sheets, and more.
Currently there are 20 kits, fiction and nonfiction, most published within the past year. The kits are fully sponsored by Collingwood book clubs, who generously donated $200 each to sponsor their chosen book.
“We decided to add book club kits to our collection because the need for popular books by our book clubs wasn’t always being met by interlibrary loan. Our kits are a great way for clubs to have access to the newest titles they want to read,” says Beth Van Tassel, coordinator, cataloguing and acquisitions for Collingwood Public Library.
Interested in becoming a donor? Community members can sponsor a book club kit in two different ways: either by donating $200 which is used to purchase the kit or, donate eight new copies of a chosen book. Any person or book club that sponsors a kit is recognized with a bookplate in the front of all copies of the eight books.
The titles currently available are as follows:
The Alice Network, by Kate Quinn
Becoming, by Michelle Obama
Circe, by Madeline Miller
City of Girls, by Elizabeth Gilbert
The Clockmakers Daughter, by Kate Morton
Daisy Jones and the Six, by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Educated, by Tara Westover
The Farm, by Joanne Ramos
Gentleman in Moscow, by Amor Towles
The Gown, by Jennifer Robson
Home for Unwanted Girls, by Joanna Goodman
The Huntress, by Kate Quinn
The Lost Girls of Paris, by Pam Jenoff
More Tc's Tales, by Thomas McCavour
Pachinko, by Min Jin Lee
Red Notice, by Bill Browder
The Tattooist of Auschwitz, by Heather Morris
Washington Black, by Esi Edugyan
Where the Crawdads Sing, by Delia Owens
The Testaments, by Margaret Atwood
“We are so thankful for the support and generosity from the local book clubs who have made this collection possible. Because of these donations, many others will be able to enjoy the kits,” says Lyndsay Boyce, public services supervisor at Collingwood Public Library.
Community members interested in sponsoring the program, making a donation or reserving a book kit can contact Lyndsay Boyce at [email protected] or by calling 705-445-1571 x6230.
The Collingwood Public Library is committed to guiding our community in the pursuit of information, the wonder of lifelong learning, and the enrichment of social and cultural experiences. At the heart of the community, the Collingwood Public Library is an inclusive environment seeking universal accessibility.
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