Our Unfulfilled Dreams

              As Emerson Booker says,  there are still many things that would enhance the services we offer at our beautiful Gentry County Library. Raising the money needed to finish the lower level and make it a real usable space would be a wonderful fulfillment of Aletha Whittington’s dreams for the Gentry County Library. We have the many original copies of local newspapers, photographs, and other important genealogical and historic records. These records and photographic materials have complex physical and chemical structures that present special preservation challenges to the librarian and archivist. Since the birth of photography in the late 1830s, many different photographic processes and materials have been utilized, each subject to deterioration through time and with use. Although deterioration is an ongoing natural process, nevertheless much can be done to slow the rate at which it takes place in photographs, and in other materials.

            Completion of the lower level project will make that space an important tool in preserving the history of Gentry County.
        If you would like to make a donation in honor of another person, or as a memorial, please include that person's name and address with your donation, and that person or their family will receive an acknowledgment of the gift. Your name and the recipient's name will be included in a special commemorative display.

Contributor - $100 and under

Donor - $100 - $500

Patron - $500 - $1,000

Benefactor - $1,000 - $100,000

Philanthropists - $100,000 & Up                                       

    Naming Opportunities

Community Room Kitchen - $75,000

Community Room - $100,000

Genealogy Archive Storage Room - $45,000

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