Celebration of the Written Word
The Riverside Public Library Foundation 2023 Annual Campaign is in full swing. “Celebration of the Written Word” is the theme for this drive, and the funds will provide support for all city library programs and resources for all ages including children, teens, families, and adults.
Your donation supports children and family programs such as family literacy programs, book clubs for all ages, continuing the One Thousand Books Before Kindergarten program, and story time. In addition, a summer reading program will be offered to help children maintain their reading levels.
Funds raised will also continue to support the acquisition of diversified library resources, the physical collections within the libraries and the digital online resources, e-books, e-audiobooks, reference materials, and magazines at all branches.
Did you know...
In 2020-21 only $300,000 in city funds were provided for library books and materials? That is $21.62 per capita in city library funding. This places Riverside Public Library 45th in line among other city libraries in California or in the bottom third. Riverside ranks 12th in population of California cities. (This information comes from the California Public Libraries’ Local Income Per Capita, LIPC, dataset according to the FY2020-21 Public Libraries Survey by the California State Library.)