Support Your Library

You can help support one of the community’s most important civic institutions — the library.

Since 1876 the Waterloo Public Library has been a meeting place for people, ideas, learning and culture.

The library is used by children, students, parents, entrepreneurs, new immigrants, and seniors — people from all walks of life.

Supporting the Waterloo Public Library means that you’re helping everyone to access the information and life-long learning opportunities that are central to a growing, vibrant community, and that are the cornerstone of a literate and democratic society.

Where will your money go?

Every day, more than 1,600 people visit the Waterloo Public Library.The library changes lives — giving people new skills, new ideas and new ways of making sense of the complex world we live in. It gives everyone a chance to discover the joy of reading.

We need friends like you — people who truly appreciate the importance of library services — to ensure a strong library service today and for the future.

As a Friend of the Waterloo Public Library, you’ll support these important initiatives:

• Outreach Programs for Children

  To bring library collections and services to children who live in vulnerable social and economic circumstances.

• Family Literacy

  To develop the reading, writing and counting skills of children in a family environment, and to promote a love of reading. Parents are their children’s first and most important teachers. Research shows that children’s self-esteem grows and family relationships are strengthened when family members enjoy literacy-building activities together.

• Adopt-a-Magazine

  To enlarge WPL’s newspaper and magazine collection.

• Library Collections

  To add more books to our shelves, and to ensure that the library is at the forefront of today’s knowledge economy — knowledge that must be available to all citizens of Waterloo.

To make a donation, return the completed form with your cheque to: Business Office, Waterloo Public Library,
35 Albert Street, Waterloo, Ontario N2L 5E2. Or make a donation in person at any service counter at the Main Library or McCormick Branch.

A great library needs more than a building...it needs friends.