Bowling Green Rotary Club donates 100 books

BOWLING GREEN, Ky.- The Bowling Green Rotary Club is celebrating 100 years of club existence in town in a very special, and educational way. 

In honor of their 100th anniversary, the club is donating 100 children’s books to the Bowling Green-Warren County Public Library. 

The books will form the base inventory for the library’s new mobile unit. The vehicle makes books available to people who may not be able to travel to one of the library’s branches. 

Both the Rotary Club members and the library staff believe reading is critical for the next generation and hope this impacts them. 

“We believe in literacy. And if we can contribute to that literacy, we’ve done a great service,” said Rotary Club President Alan Palmer.

“There’s just nothing like handing a book to a family or a child who it’s just the perfect book for them. They see themselves in it and they get inspired. Especially in a year with COVID, when everything kinda feels a little closed in, books open that world back up,” said Warren County Public Library Community Outreach Director Courtney Stevens.

 Library employees hope that children will be able to go inside the mobile library once the pandemic is over and pick out the books for themselves.