Next week is the 2009 Farm Progress Show (FPS) in Decatur at Progress City just north of the Richland Community College Campus. This will be the fifth FPS where Rolling Prairie and its member libraries have participated. As I write the FPS Committee is busily placing labels in the hundreds of books donated by member libraries. These paperback books will be given away during the three days of the show. What does that label say? “a gift from your Illinois Library.”
Preparing for the FPS is a daunting task. It begins nearly a year before the show and starts with RPLS asking librarians to serve on a planning committee. The committee helps plan the booth, plan fund raising activities to pay for the booth registration, helps organize volunteers to work at the booth, solicit paperback books for giveaway, and numerous other tasks.
Monday, we will be setting up the booth, then Sept. 1, 2, & 3 librarians will greet Farmers, FFA members, Agribusiness folks and kids at the booth. We will have free books, raffles and other giveaways. By late Thursday afternoon, the books will be gone, the booth taken down, packed up and moved back to RPLS. All involved will be exhausted but excited about all the people they will have met and the stories they will tell us about their home library.
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