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  • Home Page
  • Services & Resources
    • Online Resources
    • Reading Challenges
    • Genealogy and Local History
    • Home-bound Services
    • Inter-library Loan
    • Meeting Room Reservation
    • Remote Card Application
    • APL Podcasts
  • Adults
    • New Books
    • New Movies
  • Teens
  • Children's
    • New Kids' Items
    • Imagination Library
  • About
    • Policies >
      • Patron Code of Conduct
      • Library Resources Selection Policy
    • Strategic Plan 2015-2018
    • Board of Directors >
      • Board Book
    • Friends of the Atchison Library (FoAL)
    • Job Openings
    • Contact
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A group of people who believe that a modern, effective library is essential to our community
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Our purpose is to support and promote library services to local citizens, community leaders and organizations by:

  • Raising money for the library with FoAL membership fees and other contributions
  • Volunteering for special projects at the library
  • Acting as a liaison between the library and other community groups
  • Assisting the library board in lobbying for support for capital improvements
FoAL Board 

President: Janean Bowen
Vice-President: Faye Miller
Secretary: open
Treasurer: open
Member at Large: Julia Zia
email: askus@atchisonlibrary.org

​What we have done recently for our library:

  • Purchased lunch for librarians on National Library Workers Day
  • Purchased recliners for the reading room
  • Purchased writer's workshop by James Patterson
  • Purchase the BOOK PAGE magazine every month for distribution to library patrons
  • Provided food for the "One World" Short Story event
  • Contributed to the Summer Reading Program
FoAL Membership Levels (contact atchisonfriends@gmail.com for enrollment form):
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  • Individual Annual Membership $15
  • Family Annual Membership $25
  • Organization/ Business Annual Membership $60
  • Individual Lifetime Membership $125
401 Kansas Avenue
Atchison, KS 66002

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Phone: 913-367-1902
Fax: 913-367-2717
email: askus@atchisonlibrary.org