Fairmount Library Friends Is No More

This evening I have had to vote with four of the five remaining members of my local library's Friends group to dissolve it.

In the ten years that the Friends have existed we have done our utmost to support our local library in the face of my town's aging population (whose own attention is divided among the town's other groups) and an uninvolveable youth. Now we are down to the original five members, including myself, plus one. With so few, we could not function as a business entity as required by the State of Indiana for non-profit groups.

We will still give our time and effort for the library, but as a group of volunteers.

I have maintained a Web site for the Friends group, which I intend to keep as a reference for anyone thinking of setting of a library Friends group of their own.