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Shaker Library’s Youth Services
Manager Shannon Fischer Titas says that
robust home libraries, like the ones made
possible by Imagination Library, “have a
positive impact on family literacy habits
and kindergarten readiness, and they can
help support grade-level reading by third
grade. We support this literacy initiative
and encourage residents to share the gift
of reading with the children and families
in their lives.”
Parents of children four-and-a-half
years old and younger can enroll online
at literacycooperative.org or by texting
FREEBOOKS to 313131. Books arrive
eight to ten weeks after registering. There
is no cost or obligation.
Library Deliveries
Keep Homebound
Customers Engaged
Books connect us to each other. For
adults living in the Shaker Heights City
School District who are unable to come to
the Library due to a physical limitation,
the Library’s Homebound Program offers
a personal connection through its home
delivery of material through the U.S.
Postal Service.
“So many of our customers value the
Library’s services, and we want to make
them more convenient and accessible to
everyone living in the community,” says
Homebound Coordinator Stacie Anderson.
“We have been providing homebound
services for more than 35 years and today,
these services are even more important.”
Library materials are delivered in a
blue cloth pouch, which contains return
postage. When customers finish with
the items, they simply repack the pouch,
insert the pre-addressed card to the
Library, and leave it for their mail carrier
to pick up.
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Library to cover the costs for a child to
receive free books each month for one
year in many east side communities. The
program has mailed 500,000 new books
to children.
“A 2019 survey of Imagination
Library families in Cuyahoga County
confirms that parents are reading more
frequently with their children, and
children are asking their parents to read
with them more often since receiving the
books in the mail,” says Spoerl.
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