Calculate the Value

Visitors + Circulation = A Great Year

*More than 50% of Haverford Township has a library card and uses it on a regular basis.

*On average 800 babies, kids, teens, and adults visit HTFL each day.

*Approximately 14,000 new items were added to our collection last year.

*In 2011, the Library circulated 332,000+ items - books, movies, music, and more!

*We hosted more than 900 programs at HTFL last year with 18,000 participants.

*Customers logged 18,300+ hours on public computers with Internet access.

Invest in Success

$30 could purchase the newest best seller.

$50 could Book a Librarian for two hours of one-on-one assistance with an online job aplication.

$75 could buy a new audiobook.

$150 could pay the stipend for a local expert to visit the Library and discuss planning for retirement.

$500 could sponsor a program for HTFLkids' Summer Reading Club, reaching 250 children and their families.

FREE Access 24/7

Many of the Library's resources are available to you 24-hours a day through haverfordlibrary.org. Reserve the hottest new titles, download one of the 5,000+ eBooks, register for a program, and renew your materials from your computer, smart phone, or tablet - anytime, anywhere.

HTFL + You = A Vibrant Community

The dollars and cents value of the public library is clear - for every $1 of tax support, $5.50 returns to the community*. However, we see an even deeper value every day - in the excitement of a new reader, in the gratitude of a job seeker that we've assisted in submitting their resume online, or in the smile of a homebound senior as they open their door to a delivery of library materials.

THANK YOU Township Commissioners, Friends of HTFL, and all Library supporters.

Please help sustain the important work of the Haverford Township Free Library by making a tax-deductible donation to our Annual Appeal today. An investment in HTFL is an investment in the success of the our entire community.

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Thank you from the Board of Trustees, Director, and Staff

_{*a finding of the 2006 "Taxpayer Return-on-Investment in Pennsylvania Public Libraries" study conducted by the University of North Carolina's School of Information and Library Science, commissioned by the PA Department of Education's Office of Commonwealth Libraries in Collaboration with the PA Library Association.}