This is a library-loving blog challenge!
For every commenter on this post or any of this week’s LIBRARY-LOVING BLODGETT post between now and midnight on 3/31/10, I will donate $1.00 to my local library: FISHKILL-BLODGETT MEMORIAL LIBRARY, up to an amount of $150.
How easy could it be? You comment, I cough up the money, the library gets a gift! If you don’t have a favorite library story to share in the comment section, “I love libraries” will do.
Note that my pledge is “per commenter”—so if a single person leaves 50 comments, that still only counts once! But you can do more by spreading the word … please link to this post, tweet about it, and send your friends here so they can comment and raise more money.
If you’re moved to start your own challenge, you are quite welcome, and please leave that information in the comments. Also, if you’re a fan of BLODGETT MEMORIAL LIBRARY you can also add your donation to mine or send it directly to the library.
For a complete list of participating bloggers (and to visit other sites where you can help libraries just by leaving a comment!) visit (writerjenn) Jennifer R. Hubbard’s blog at http://writerjenn.livejournal.com/
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Is it too late to get a comment in? I LOVE libraries!!
You're my very first comment! Thanks for loving libraries! We've got $1.00 Anyone care to make it $2.00????
Make it $2.00! Yay for libraries! Thanks for doing this, Kimberly :).
Thanks for participating!
This is Jenn Hubbard.
Yay, I love libraries too!
That's such a pretty library!
thanks for supporting libraries!
This is great! Most libraries are in dire straights right now! I know the Ohio libraries can use all the help they can get!
Glad that you've joined this challenge. I've just put mine up. Good luck.
Hooray for libraries!
Good luck on your challenge! Go libraries!
Thanks for participating, Kimberly!
My library-supporting blog entry can be found here: http://bit.ly/ilovelibraries
Love it! Libraries are the best =D
I love libraries!
Love libraries! Thanks, Kim!
“When people who can read and write start fighting on behalf of people who can’t, you just end up with another kind of stupidity. If you want to help them, build a big library or something somewhere, and leave the doors open.”~Terry Pratchett, Interesting Times.
Hi library-loving blogger! I wish my library was bigger so it could hold more books!
Here is my challenge:
http://taffyscandy.blogspot.com/2010/03/library-loving-blog-challenge.html
Yay, libraries! I just joined the challenge on my blog, too:
http://michelleknudsen.blogspot.com
Michelle 🙂
Yay! Libraries and Kim both rule.
Mucho library love! I'm doing the challenge at my blog, too, Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret!
You guys are wonderful! Blodgett is the nicest, most wonderful library. They are so fantastic with my kids and they are the biggest supporters of my writing. They are so happy to be a part of this challenge!!!!
Woot!!!! BTW we are up to $19.00!!!!!!
Hooray for libraries!
coll
Woot!!!! $20 Thanks :o)
What could be better than storytime with puppets? Or a chapter book book club? Or a cozy chair to sit and read a pile of books?
We love our library and librarians!
You know it! Thanks Jword! Love you!!!!
Thanks for doing such a great job at helping your library!
Children's books are hard-bound hugs!!! We MUST support our local libraries!
Go, Kim, GO! 🙂
Thanks Jodi-I'm gonna let them know that you'll be signing their copy of WHEN A DRAGON MOVES IN!!!!!!! :o)
Libraries Rule!
Libraries are VERY importatnt!
Good luck with your challenge, Kimberly! My favorite library story happens every time I come back with armloads of children's books and my husband teases me about "stealing books from the children." I call it "market research." 🙂
Lots of library love! We're doing the challenge as well: http://texassweethearts.blogspot.com/2010/03/library-loving-blog-challenge.html
What a fabulous idea! i love libraries too! Would love to know more about your books!
Best wishes to the Fishkill-Blodgett Memorial Library!
Thanks so much everyone! This is so exciting. We are now up to $29. I stopped by my library today and took some pictures for the blog. I'll get them up soon.
Thank you for loving libraries and good luck on your challenge.
http://judithmercadoauthor.blogspot.com/2010/03/this-is-library-loving-blog-challenge.html
Great challenge! Thank you for supporting your local library!
-Kristin Tubb
Awww who doesn't love Sandy, Eileen, Julie and Peg…? Seriously – there is NO BETTER library in the world… it's old fashioned town library love – they know you, they care about you, they ask where you've been… we are really lucky. Of course I wish I could donate millions for an upgrade though… and give Julie a hug for how hard she works… enough…
I know Fishkill! Go, Fishkill Library! And so happy you're participating. Me, too!
Janet
http://www.kidswriterjfox.blogspot.com
Yay for libraries!
Libraries are my friend. I love my NYC library system!
I love libraries! I start taking my kids from the time they are babies and we go almost every weekend!
Go libraries! See you soon, Kim.
Can't wait to see you too Katie! Thanks for all the library love!!!!!
This is terrific. Libraries are the heart of our communities … what a way to show them love.
Stopping by as a fellow participant. Your library looks really cool. 🙂
Yay! Libraries! Thank you for your support!
I love libraries! Thanks!
$41 and still counting. You guys are awesome!!!!!
Hi Kim! You are awesome for doing this! 😀
Thanks for your support of libraries…from a librarian!
Such a great idea, thanks for participating and support the wonderful libraries! 🙂
Every town, no latter how small, should have a library.
I LOVE the photo of your local library! I've often thought of turning my own house into a bookstore…
My library-loving post is at http://www.ishtamercurio.blogspot.com
Books to the rescue!
What a mitzvah!
Yay for libraries! 🙂
I couldn’t live without libraries.
I'm participating in the library blog challenge, though I've gotten a bit of a late start:
Michael Crichton’s Recommended Reading – Library Promo
Thanks so much for your support of libraries..it means alot to us out here in libraryland!
Thank you for supporting your library.
From a librarian.
Woot! Thanks for all the Library love!!!!! $51 <3
All this library love makes me so happy! Good luck with your challenge!
I love libraries!
You can take a virtual tour of Blodgett Memorial Library! http://kimberlysabatini.blogspot.com/2010/03/library-loving-blogdgetttake-virtual.html Thanks for all your support!
Awesome! Thanks for stopping by mine! And good luck!
The library looks so quaint! Stop by my challenge here: http://www.brimfulcuriosities.com/2010/03/2010-library-loving-blog-challenge-you.html
Libraries are amazing places. So great to see all the support all over the continent. All the best with your challenge.
Nice to join this challenge with you!
There better be libraries in heaven. Woot!
Thanks for supporting a library.
$59 you guys are wonderful!
I'll up it one! Go libraries!
That'a girl Kristy!
Libraries are awesome! Bastions of info and knowledge in any community and still very relevant! I went into the library as a kid and turned on all sorts of lights in my head..
I just went into a library yesterday (Malcolm X library in San Diego) and was amazed again at the wealth of info and how many people were accessing it!!! Go KIM! Oh yea, I love libraries!!
78 comments! You're on fire. Hooray for library love!
Thanks for taking the time to comment and love libraries. You guys are awesome!
What's not to love about FREE books?!?!?! I heart libraries! 🙂
You've helped raise $63 dollars so far, but the whole Library-Loving Challenge has raised more than $2500 so far. Woot!
Yes! Let's save our libraries!
Thanks Shevi! $64!!!!!
We love our library!!!!
yes think it is a good idea for people to donate money to the library and keep us going. Love my library because its the only place i can go to finish up work or think about things.
Blodgett is a great place for resources and the staff is friendly!
$67!!!! Yes they are!!!!!
What a great way for Blodgett to receive a generous donation and for patrons to be able to share their feelings about the library!
I think Blodgett is a wonderful facility and that the staff is great. Fishkill is very lucky to have a resource like this available in the community.
Thank you so much. Blodgett is a wonderful facility! $68
I love libraries!
Hope this helps the cause Kim.
I love libraries!! I miss working there! But being a SAHM is awesome, especially since I get to go to storytime as a mom, not a librarian. Whoo Hoo!!
I think this is wonderful- books are important! thank you!!!
Libraries have been my friend (and my kid's friends) throughout our whole lives! My son practically lives in the campus library now that he's in college! My daughter is getting her doctorate in library studies and it's her dream to be a librarian! Thank you for being so generous!!
I always head to my library first when I need a book. Love it! 🙂
I'm a huge fan of my local library! How great that you are doing this! Good luck!
$74 you guys ROCK!
Love all Libraries…they are a saving grace when money is tight plus the knowledge the Librarians have is priceless!
$75!!!!!
Libraries ROCK!
I love libraries! I published an article about your challenge here: http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-41223-Young-Adult-Library-Services-Examiner~y2010m3d27-Libraryloving-blog-challenges-donate-money-and-YA-books-to-local-libraries
WE ENDED ON A HIGH NOTE OF $77 RAISED ON THIS PAGE AND I'VE ADDED IN COMMENTS FROM MY FACEBOOK PAGE bringing the total to $83!!!!!! You guys were awesome for participating. Thank you so much and of course I won't be able to stop myself…gonna have to give Blodgett the whole $150. Come on….you knew I would. ;o)
think donating as much money as possible helps us out for the future and to keep us going so you have a place to go.
Thanks! I always say that if you give a little you usually get a lot more back!