Financial gifts to the library can be an enduring public tribute honoring a special person or occasion. Gifts are used to purchase materials or equipment or pay for programs beyond the means of the library's annual budget.

Honor Someone Special
Celebrate a birth, graduation, new position, significant achievement, retirement or other special occasion. Thank a teacher or coach for a great year. Honor the memory of a loved one or commemorate a special event with a gift to the library.

Both memorial and celebration gifts make your tribute public, through library materials that the community may use and enjoy for years to come. Gifts may be designated to reflect the interests of the honoree.

One Time or Annual Gift
Express appreciation for library services through a one-time or annual gift. Special gifts to the library since 1998 were used to purchase the leather furniture, the chess/checkers table and chairs, and chairs for the community room.

Any Size Gift Welcome
Purchase an item for the collection - a book, magazine subscription, video or audiobook recording - with a gift of

$25 - $150.

Purchase equipment or a computer with

$600  - $2,500.

Contribute to a special program  - like the Summer Reading Program, the Teen Game Night, or the Preschool Storytimes.

All Gifts Acknowledged
In response to a celebration or a memorial gift, the library will send an acknowledgement to either the honoree or to the family notifying them of the gift. The amount is not divulged unless requested by the donor. In addition:

• Gifts and donors will be featured in the library newsletter.
• Bookplates naming the donor and the person being honored will be placed in items for the collection (for gifts of $25 or more).
• Names of persons, corporations, and foundations that give $100 or more will be engraved on a Wall of Honor.
• Donor names will be added to the Wall of Honor as a donor's  total gifts to the library reach specified levels.
• Commemorative plaques may also be created for special gifts.

To contribute by check, please send to Mayville Public Library, P.O. Box 440, Mayville, MI   48744.  Gifts to the library may be deductible on both your state and federal income tax. Please consult your tax advisor.

Gift Policies
The Board of Trustees of Mayville Public Library reserves the right to refuse any gift which is not in the best interests of the library or does not enhance or further the defined mission of the library.