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The Southwest Florida Reading Festival
is the area’s premiere literary event! This free annual festival incites a
passion for reading. The public’s interest in leisure reading is renewed as the
festival authors are announced. People hear an author speak at the festival and
are inspired to borrow or buy the book – maybe even to write one of their own!
The Reading
Festival's mission is:
- To celebrate the importance of reading, our
commitment to connecting readers with books, and as an opportunity to
bring the finest literary talent to the people of Southwest Florida.
- To encourage in adults, teens and children an
interest in and love of literature by providing quality events featuring
popular authors in multiple venues.
- To promote public libraries as centers for
recreational reading, information, technology, the arts, and more.
- To promote lifelong learning and school reading
readiness by raising awareness of the library’s services and its role in
the community’s quality of life.
- To build continuing regional partnerships among
libraries and between libraries and other community organizations by
cooperatively presenting a large, quality literary event.
Lee County Library System
produces the Reading Festival to remind and inform
everyone about the resources and services available at
their local libraries – all for free! Your local
libraries play a contemporary role in our community as
dynamic centers for learning and knowledge. Today’s
library program is just as likely to be hands-on
computer instruction as it is to be a book discussion.
Today’s reference questions are just as likely to be
answered via telephone, e-mail or online chat as by a
librarian at the reference desk. Lee County Library
System has made great strides in anticipating
informational needs of the community. The Reading
Festival is an opportunity to take programs and
resources outside the library’s walls to remind existing
users about available services and to entice new users
to think of their local library whenever they need
information of any kind.
Lee County Library System thanks the volunteers, local
media, festival donors and sponsors whose support is
critical in maintaining the level of excellence for
which the Reading Festival is known.
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