Sarasota Library Foundation reaches $500,000 goal

The campaign was launched in December 2015.

By Katie Johns
| 6:00 a.m. January 4, 2017

Library Foundation President Linda Getzen and Sarasota County Libraries Director Sarabeth Kalajian

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The Library Foundation of Sarasota County reached its goal of raising $500,000 for its Children’s Literary Endowment.

The endowment will fund the foundation’s chapter of Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library, which allows 900 children to receive a new book every month until they turn 5.

The campaign, launched in December 2015, raised $451,075. The final $50,000 is coming from the Charles and Margery Barancik Foundation, bringing the grand total to $501,075.