September 2025 is the 10th anniversary of the "Love Your Library Month" campaign and the Friends of South Park Library is celebrating in a big way, with a milestone $25,000 donation! This incredible gift marks a 67% increase from 2024 and reflects the tireless dedication of the Friends' members and the generous support of our community. Every book sale purchase, raffle ticket, handcrafted item, and donation helped make this achievement possible.
The Friends of the Library extend their heartfelt thanks to everyone who supported their fundraising efforts and programs this year. Whether setting up for book sales, crafting items for the Holiday Market, or staffing the craft table at Community Day, your volunteer spirit and community pride was evident in everything they did.
The Friends are proud to support our Library by enhancing its programs, resources, and outreach for residents of all ages, This recent donation shows the power of a community united by a shared purpose.
Through fundraising, donations, and dedicated volunteers, the Friends champion initiatives that strengthen the Library and enrich lives, transforming it into a vibrant hub of learning, connection, and community.
As we celebrate Love Your Library Month, the Friends invite everyone to show their support, not just through annual appeal donations, but through participation, volunteerism, and advocacy. Together, we're building something lasting and meaningful for South Park Township.
After over 50 remarkable years of leading with heart, vision, and unstoppable dedication, we say thank you and goodbye for now to our beloved President, Cathie Humphreys. As she relocates to be closer to her family, Cathie closes this chapter holding a book titled "Farewell Cathie." Thank you for all that you have done, a small token of the immense gratitude we feel. From book sales and community programs to growing a family of Friends that spans generations, Cathie’s leadership turned a simple library support group into something extraordinary. Your legacy is in every page we turn, every connection made, and every volunteer inspired. Thank you, Cathie, for building more than a team, you built a community. You’ll always be part of our story. With all our love, Friends of the South Park Township Library.
From Friday, November 6, 2020 - Sunday, November 8, 2020, the Heart of the Community Mosaic Mural was installed to the exterior of the Library building. On Monday, December 7, 2020, the Heart of the Community Mosaic Mural was dedicated as part of the Township's Light Up Night activities. Over two years, hundreds of hands worked thousands of hours together. The mural displays many of the things we see in our community every day, most of which is in our Township. South Park Township Library is represented by a girl with a book. Thanks to those Friends members, who helped out in some way on this mural! A special thank you to South Park Township for all of their support with this community project! The fruits of everyone’s labor is a great addition to front of our Library building. To look back at the history of the Library's mosaic mural, please visit the Heart of the Community Mosaic Mural blog here!
On Saturday, September 7, 2019, the Linda Yee Memorial Bench was dedicated to South Park Township Library and South Park Township by Cathie Humphreys, Co-President of the Friends of South Park Township Library. The dedication ceremony was attended by many of Linda's family, friends, library staff, library retirees, and Township officials. Linda had been a former South Park Township Library Director for many years. The bench was obtained with donations from family, friends, and Friends of South Park Township Library from August 2017 - January 2018. The family had designated the "FRIENDS" to receive all donations in Linda's name and the Friends decided to have a memorial bench at the library in her name. The Linda Yee Memorial Bench is located on the left side of the library entrance.
Make plans to join us for the upcoming Friends of South Park Township Library Membership Meeting on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM at the South Park Township Administration Building Board Room. In addition to our business meeting, the evening will feature hands-on activities, ways to get involved, and plenty of opportunities to connect with old friends, and make new ones, as we come together to support the library we love and give back to our community.These meetings offer an excellent opportunity to stay connected, share your insights, and contribute to the growth of our community. We can’t wait to see you there!
The Friends welcome new ideas & suggestions for programs. Do you have a special hobby, talent, and/or gift, that you'd like to share with our residents? Come to the meeting with your information on your talent, hobby, and/or gift. Perhaps it is something that can be shared with others by you teaching a class on the subject or giving a program. This information will then be given to our library's Adult Services Coordinator, Donna Neiport.
Want to do something special for a
loved one, friend, relative, neighbor, who is deceased? How
about that special person who is still alive?
Since 1974, the Friends have accepted memorial and "in honor of" donations for the
library. Donations can be made through the Friends or directly
to the library for books, equipment, etc. You may make a donation in
someone's name "in memory of" or "in honor of that person." The name for whom the donation(s) are made of $100
or more to Friends or the library are placed on a Friends'
plaque. The Friends currently have 4 plaques hanging in the
When a person is deceased, a family member or friend
should contact the Friends or library, if they are interested in giving a
donation in that person's name. When a Friends' member or family member (husband, wife, son, daughter, member dies) with a Friends' family membership, a
donation will be placed from the Friends of the Library to be used as the library staff sees fit, placed in that person's memory.
You may want to do something even more special for a deceased loved one. Several people have put in loved one's obituary
"IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, DONATIONS CAN BE MADE TO SOUTH PARK TOWNSHIP LIBRARY OR TO FRIENDS OF SOUTH PARK TOWNSHIP LIBRARY". Contact South Park Library, if you would like to do this, when you are writing an obituary at (412) 833-5585.
Donations can also be made for someone who is still alive. Make a donation to our library for their birthday, anniversary, or just because they are a wonderful person! Your group can also be a donor to the library or Friends. Contact the Friends by Email: friendsofsplibrary15129@gmail.com or call the Library at (412) 833-5585 to leave a message for a member of the Friends to contact you or your group.
E-mail: friendsofsplibrary15129@gmail.com
Library Phone: 412-833-5585
Friends Website: www.southparklibrary.org/spfriends.htm
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