With current library card, access to our e-books on Libby App, classes on health issues for all ages, water day for our 5th grade, reception for donors, book and t-shirt sale for fundraiser, toddler program weekly, monthly book club, something for you! In July 1995 Kathleen Fisk Hale became President of the Board and Librarian; on August 22, 1996 she and John Gilliam signed the Resolution for the
library to become a member of the Central Texas Library System (CTLS). The library is supported by both the City of Valley Mills and the Library Association, along with grants. The library has received grants from TIF for Internet and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation twice for two computers each, the Viburnam Foundation ("Center for the Book") for books, the Bernard & Audre Rapoport Foundation (April 2006 to April 2008, & for '09,) Tocker Foundation for furniture in Sept. '10 for $6,859, a $10,000 grant, Dobie Award, for books in April ' 11 and a $3000 literacy grant project funded by Dollar General for Summer 2011--and $675 for the Every child Ready to Read project in Summer '11-- and the Loan Star Libraries Grants. The library has received the local Coop Round-Up grant for $2500 these past two years. $2000 grant from Dollar General in May 2014 for Summer Reading Program 2014, and a Dollar General Grant in May 2015 for $1500.00 for the Summer Reading Program, including books.
