Who We Are

"The purpose of this organization shall be to promote literacy at the school; To enrich the total resources and facilities of the Joyce Etulain Library; And to enhance a love of reading in the GO'K students."

The Georgia O'Keeffe FOL is a 501(c)(3) Internal Revenue Service tax-exempt corporation.

With the support of our library volunteers and Friends of the Library Association we have accomplished great things at the Joyce Etulain Library. Take a look at what we have done this past school year.

• Over 61,000 books and materials checked out and shelved.

• 1266 book club awards including 67 Hall of Fame awards and 4 RAM Reader awards. Thanks testers!

• Updated Hall of Fame Records

• Weekly Read and Feed Program for Kinder-3^rd grade

• Organized 45 shift volunteers

• Made 650+ library cards

• Spooky Story/Illustration Contest for 2^nd -5^th graders. 25 Books published for winners and library (Paid for by FOL funds)

• Spooky Story Night with Student Generated Stories Performed by Actors and Musicians (attendance of over 1,000 people!) (Paid for by FOL)

• Fall Book Fair/Spring Book Fair- raised over $15,000

• Author/Illustrator Presentation Jennifer Nielsen for fourth & fifth graders. (paid for by FOL).

• Poetry Alive presented to all grades.

• Celebrated Dr. Seuss with a movie night in the gym.

• Fourth and fifth grade classroom Battle of the Books in April.

• Battle of the Books celebration luncheon for 4^th and 5^th graders (paid for by FOL funds).

• Battle of the Books Trophies and Dog Tags for winning teams (paid for by FOL funds).

• Books repaired, covered, cleaned

• $6,900 in books/audio/video/e-books purchased (paid for by FOL funds).