Friends’ Footnotes

This blog is updated semi-regularly to let the public know about major goings-on regarding the Sherwood Public Library and what the Friends of Sherwood Public Library have been up to. For all the latest info on library services and programs, visit their website at sherwoodoregon.gov/library.

Here is our most current update:

9/25/25 – Opening Thoughts
We have all had the opportunity to think back at how we became connected to a friend or activity that enriches our lives in ways too many to count; we may consider it from various angles, both to appreciate the past and to build and ensure its future.  Our relationship with our local library is no different, and Sherwood Friends of the Library invites you to nurture your relationship to our library in ways big and small.

Libraries have long played a vital role in communities throughout our country, and from printed materials to streaming subscriptions, from reading with an animal friend to reduce stress to discussing ideas in a book club, from hands-on creativity to the latest in technology, our library is a hub of activity.  This is the fruit of a seed planted long ago, from the time of our founders and now a mainstay in our democracy.  As Andrew Carnegie, the Johnny Appleseed of libraries, having planted 1,679 library buildings in communities through the country between 1886 and 1919 once said according to the National Park Service, “ A library outranks any other thing a community can do to benefit its people.  It is a never failing spring in the desert.”

Like an old friend, we may have grown so used to our library that we assume it will always be there for us.  We encourage you to use it, enjoy it, support it, and enable it to remain the vital resource it is in our community.  It needs you.  You can help it change lives by supporting it in the November election. 

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