It consists of a regional library in Accomac, a branch library in Nassawadox and two affiliated libraries – Chincoteague Island Library, Inc. and Cape Charles Memorial Library. This is our story of why we need a regional library and the capital campaign which will make it happen.
Delicious Dinner, Silent and Live Auctions,
50/50 drawing
Tickets $75 per person
All proceeds to benefit the new Eastern Shore Regional Library
This 1959 Mark 9 was donated to the Eastern Shore Public Library to help raise money for a badly needed new main library in this rural area in coastal Virginia.
We are Having a Birthday
The Eastern Shore Public Library is Turning 60!
We Are Raising Money to Build
A New Library!
Whether $20 or $20,000, your support is urgently needed to make the regional library facility a reality. Gifts may be made in one payment, or pursuant to a pledge covering a number of years. The estimated cost of the regional library is $5,300,000, and half of that amount has already been raised.
The Eastern Shore Public Library Foundation is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2019. Incorporated on August 5, 2009, the Foundation was formed to assist the library board of trustees to secure funds to support the library system in ways the annual operating income did not.
Cara Burton recently presented the Soroptimist Club of Accomack County a progress report focused on the planned Eastern Shore Heritage Center and how the new facility will better serve Accomack and Northampton Counties with advanced technology, community involvement serving all ages, and preserving our Heritage.
Eastern Shore Public Library Foundation has been awarded a Preservation Assistance Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The grant will support a consultant to help staff prepare the library’s archives for the Eastern Shore of Virginia Heritage Center to be built at the new regional library in 2020.
Laura Bush's quote is as true in the current digital age as it has ever been, as libraries become both virtual and physical spaces. Free public libraries are basic to a true democracy because they provide everyone with equal access to information and place no limits on the ideas we can explore.
“I have found the most valuable thing in my wallet is my library card.”
We can find almost anything on the Internet, but not everyone has access to the Internet at home, especially on the Eastern Shore. Making online access available to everyone is essential to providing equal opportunity to all our citizens.
