Overton library receives Lois Lenski Covey grant

McMillan Memorial Library located in Overtonhas been selected to receive a $1000 grant from the Lois Lenski Covey Foundation. The grant will be used to expand and improve the children's collection, pre-school through teens.

The Lois Lenski Covey Foundation, Inc., is a charitable institution whose purpose is to assist organizations in their efforts to provide books to children who might otherwise lack access to children's literature. Lois Lenski, the 1946 Newbery medalist for Strawberry Girl, had a life-long concern that good books be available to all children.

Jann Smith, branch manager, wrote the grant application with the objective of enhancing the children's book collection. McMillan Memorial Library was one of seventy-one libraries throughout the country to be awarded a Lois Lenski Covey Foundation grant for the year 2007.