What’s Happening with Friends!

Gifts for the Library!

It was our great delight at the April Friends of the Dunlap Public Library General Membership meeting to present the library with gifts for the children and adult programs totaling $2,100. 

These gifts are possible thanks to your membership fees, donations, and participation in our fundraisers. We appreciate your support of OUR library! 

Friends members also reviewed programs sponsored by FDPL and voted on changes to our bylaws to reflect our current standard of practice and provide more flexibility. 

View the Meeting Slide Show and read the Meeting Minutes for more information. 

Friends Merchandise

Support our library and promote Friends of the Dunlap Public Library through your purchase of a t-shirt, sweatshirt, or tote bag featuring the FDPL logo.

Learn more here! 

Friends Bookstore

Visit our bookstore located next to the Circulation Desk and get a great deal on used adult and children’s books, CDs/DVDs, and audio books. Purchases can be made either by depositing money in the box on the top of the bookcase or by PayPal. Check out the great deals and come often as inventory will be updated as space becomes available.  

Friends and guests are welcome at our General Membership and Board meetings. See our calendar for dates and times. We hope to see you there! 

Not a Friend yet? Click here to fill out the membership form. 

Friends by the Numbers

51 Active members 

18 Programs and events sponsored

• Illinois Libraries Present
• 2 Minigolf in the Library fundraisers
• Library of Legends: D & D Game Night
• Meet an Owl, Paint a Metal Owl (co-sponsored by Creative Soul)
• Free Community Shred Day
• Offsite Adventures: Fused Hearts with Pumpkin Glass, Fired Up Heart Shaped Ornament, Pettengill Morron Holiday Home Tour, Finding Titanic…The Secret Mission, It Happened in the Heights Walking Tour, Pumpkin Glass Jewelry Paint Night, Jane Austen’s Sanditon: From Unfinished Swan Song to British Costume Drama (virtual presentation), Universal Yums treat box subscription, Booksale, Holiday Book Adoption Drive, Library Book Mug Sale, 2024 National Friends of Libraries Week

$25,616 Total monies raised from fund raising, donations, and dues 

39 Gifts given to the library 

• Storage shelves for the children’s program
• Magnetic building tiles
• Rolling storage cart
• Art drying rack
• Collection separators
• Six-month subscription to the print edition of Peoria Journal Star
• Card tables
• Yoga items
• Cardboard cutout people
• Reading glasses
• Color corrective glasses
• Nintendo Switch
• Play tent
• Dress up clothes
• Storage unit
• Snacks for afterschool programs
• Three annual subscriptions to Illinois Libraries Present
• Mental aerobics books and materials
• More programming funds to highlight local businesses
• Face paint and balloon art for the children’s summer reading program
• Univeral Yums subscription (for children after school snacks)
• Outdoor play equiptment
• Craft supplies
• Five children’s puzzles
• Two Tonie boxes and a 2026 one-year subscription for three new Tonies each month
• Storage containers for the Tonies
• Two charging stations

8 General membership meetings 

1,200 Popsicles donated for the 2024 and 2025 Summer Reading Kickoff Party and Foam Party.