Last Minute Holiday Gifts

Just a few days from now, many people will be celebrating Christmas. Stockings will be hung by the chimney with care, presents will be wrapped and under the tree.

Right now, you may be searching frantically for the perfect gift for a loved one who is as hard to buy for as it is hard to find a snowflake on a rainy day.

We have a few ideas to offer library lovers.

A Library Gift Certificate that can be used for paying for late fees, printing, DVD rentals, book sale items, or even to purchase a non-resident fee card. (You set the amount that you want to give, we provide the gift certificate.)

A Sycamore Public Library Mug 

$4.00

$7.00

We have a variety of Library Book Bags.

$4.00

You may want to buy one, two, three or four pewter ornaments.

$25 - $50 each

All of these items make for fun gifts and can be purchased at the Circulation desk during regular business hours.

If you have someone who is less about things and more about helping the community, you could make a donation to the library. You can donate money to purchase books, movies or music in honor of that special someone.

We are also accepting donations to help purchase new furniture for the library. We have received a $10,000 grant from the DeKalb County Community Foundation to help with the purchase of new browsing book shelves for the children's picture books. The shelving will cost $26,000. A donation for this or other furniture will be a lasting honor to your loved one and will benefit everyone one who uses the library. We will send a letter telling your special person about the donation.

Monetary donations can be made by check in person or by credit card from the library website. The following link provides the gift form so that we know who to thank and honor by your gift.
 We wish you the very best of all the holidays!

Merry Christmas!
Happy Hanukkah!
Joyous Kwanzaa!
Happy Solstice!
Pancha Ganapati Good Wishes Pouring In!
Festivus! For the Rest of Us.

Giving Thanks

It is often dark when we get up and dark when we head home after work. Our days are short and our evenings often feel so very long. This is a wonderful time to reflect and see the blessings that we have had all through the year.

I know as well as anyone that some days and even weeks don't feel like they are filled with blessings. There are many people out of work, others have incurable diseases, and on those grey and gloomy days, it can be hard to see the blessings that do come to us in a day.

Over the past several months, I have posted and watched others post on Facebook, the things they are thankful for and are happy about. Here are a few things that I am thankful and happy for right now.

I am thankful for the wonderful staff. They are hard working, caring, and full of wonderful energy and ideas.

I am thankful for the library patrons. They come to share their love of books, music, and reading and really keep us on our toes.

I am happy to have Swedberg and Associates as our Construction Manager for the upcoming building projects.

I am happy to have Lisa Sharp and the team at Sharp Architects designing our construction plans.

I am thankful for a library board that works with me to make the library a better and better place every day.

I am thankful to be a part of the Sycamore Community. I love the small town spirit and big wonderful dreams and ideas of this community.

I am thankful for Joyce Klein and Dennis Kimme, and the County Board for keeping the library in mind as they plan the jail expansion.

I am thankful for Toni and all of the years that she kept me going here at the library.

I am very happy to have Katherine as a new Assistant Director.

These are just the things that popped into my head I sat at my desk at the end of this day. I am sure that I could go on and on, but I think you get the idea. I wish you happy moments in  each and every day.

Check out our Library Newsletter to learn about all of the wonderful things going on at the library this December.