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ByWater Solutions Announces February 2022 Community Giveback Winner
by Elise Aiello on Feb 22, 2022
Each month, ByWater Solutions selects one library to be awarded $500. These funds are meant to support libraries and their communities and fill gaps in funding to further library goals.
We are excited to announce our February 2022 winner of the ByWater Community Giveback, Carnegie-Stout Public Library in Dubuque, Iowa.
Carnegie-Stout Public Library is an urban library with that serves a population of about 60,000 people. We have about 40,000 active card holders. Over the past several years we have been adding unconventional items to our collection in order to meet the needs of our patrons. The items range from gardening tools and board games to fitness equipment. Recently we have been focused on adding items that can be checked out as a kit and provide the patrons with multiple activity options. Once such collection is our nature kits that include bird watching guides, hiking maps, a compass, and various other things designed to help patrons connect with nature.
Their goal for the Community Giveback project is to expand on this collection as well as to create memory care kits for older adults experiencing memory loss and their caregivers. Each kit comes complete with a guide for caregivers and multiple memory activities for those with memory loss. Some examples include music from the 40s and 50s, picture books with easily identifiable animals or places, memory games designed to help adults match shapes, colors, or pictures with words. Each kit has 5-7 different activities designed to help those with memory loss and those working with adults with memory loss. We currently have 4 kits prepared and with a $500 grant we could prepare another 4 kits for circulation. We expect these kits to be checked out by people caring for their aging parents in their home, or to take when visiting a parent in an assisted living facility. It is also possible that these kits would be checked out by staff working in assisted living facilities who are looking for activities to engage their residents.
ByWater Solutions is happy to contribute to such a great initiative to expand and diversify their collection.
About Carnegie-Stout Public Library
Learn more about the Carnegie-Stout Public Library here:
About the ByWater Community Giveback
We will select one library a month to donate $500 to their Non-profit 501c3 organization such as Friends of the Library, Library Foundation, or other funding entity. These funds are meant to support libraries and their communities and fill gaps in funding to further library goals. We LOVE libraries. Our team is made up of librarians and library fanatics. We're always looking for ways to give back and create opportunities where we can to support libraries. This is a small token of thanks for all the hard work libraries do in their communities every day.
Learn More About the Program and How to Apply.
If you have more questions, please contact: Outreach@bywatersolutions.com
About ByWater Solutions
ByWater Solutions is a full service, high-quality Open Source support and implementation company dedicated to providing libraries with a lower cost, more advanced level of support for their systems than a traditional proprietary solution can offer. ByWater Solutions has a proven track record in the first-rate implementation and support services with library systems of all sizes for the Koha ILS, Aspen Discovery, Folio LSP, Coral ERM, and Libki PC Management.
Our highly ranked, comprehensive support is what sets our company apart from any other vendor in the industry. Partnering with ByWater Solutions not only lowers the cost of implementation and maintenance of OSS but more importantly empowers libraries by giving them the flexibility and freedom they deserve. For more information please visit https://bywatersolutions.com.
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Elise Aiello
Partner Engagement Specialist
ByWater Solutions
bywatersolutions.com
Phone:(888)900-8944
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