The Shelbyville Public Library is set to receive a major financial boost.  The Carnegie Corporation of New York – of which the library is a member – is donating $10,000 to the library.  The gift comes in honor of the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence.  Administrators hope to use it for aesthetic improvements on top of their more recent such projects. 

Monica Cameron is the director of the Shelbyville Public Library.  She learned of the award by email and initially thought it was a scam. 

Only some of the libraries originally under the Carnegie Corporation are still open.  As Shelbyville’s is one of them, Cameron credits the city for their support of the library’s work for the community.

With potential renovations pending, the library has a full slate of programming with the local schools’ winter break coming up.  They include the continuation of their series of biweekly crochet programs.  The next such event is this Tuesday from 5:30-7 p.m.

One even during the winter break is designed to get kids out of the house.  A class on making snowball slime is set for Monday, December 29 from 9:30 a.m. to noon. 

More information on the Shelbyville Public Library is available at www.shelbyvillelibrary.org.

Monica Cameron appeared as a guest on the WTIM Shelbyville Morning Show.