Membership in the Friends of the Brown County Library is a simple and effective way to support your community. The money we raise through membership helps in a variety of ways, from supporting the Library story times to bringing nationally famous authors such as New Yorker writer Susan Orlean to speak at the library. It directly benefits you as well, since membership entitles you to discounts at local retailers and special member-only access to the opening evening of our semi-annual BIG Book Sale and other events.
The Friends of the Brown County Library offers the following Membership options:
Membership Category - Household
Membership Terms - One Year ($20) and Five Year ($85)
When your existing membership comes up for renewal, you have the option of either maintaining that same term or changing to the other term.
Membership Bundles - Household Bundle (1-5 persons) and Organization Bundle (1-2 persons)
To reflect the family nature of our Library, membership in the Friends is offered to "Households" rather than single individuals. Up to 5 family members residing at the same address are entitled to their own membership under the umbrella of a single Household Bundle membership fee.
Similarly, up to 2 members of a single organization are entitled to their own membership under the umbrella of a single Organization Bundle membership fee.
The account-creator / bundle-administrator is responsible for maintaining and renewing memberships.
A note about our membership management system:
The Friends use a contact management program called Wild Apricot to manage our relationships with our members. The program relies on your email address, which you use to create and log in to your FBCL account, and which we use to automate our communication with you regarding establishing, renewing, and paying for your membership. It also allows us to contact you via email about upcoming FBCL events and activities.
As long-time members may recall, the Friends used to manually track your memberships, produce paper notices and confirmations, and send them out by postal mail. Since the Friends are volunteers with no office facilities, this work was largely performed for us by Library staff. As you can imagine, this was very time and money intensive us and for the Library. Our online contact management system now greatly reduces the time and expense spent on managing our memberships. This allows Library staff to concentrate on Library matters, and allows more of our finances to go to funding actual library activities and less on overhead.
For those without email addresses or internet capability, we still manually accept memberships and payments by mail, but for the rest of you, we appreciate your use of our online membership management system.
... and a note about your email address and privacy:
We use your email address only for FBCL related personal and automated messages. You can be assured that neither FBCL nor Wild Apricot would ever give out or sell your email address or contact information to a third party.
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