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Tolland Public Library Foundation Receives Balance of Large Bequest

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TOLLAND - The Tolland Public Library Foundation is pleased to announce that it has received more than $200,000 as the balance of a large bequest from Tolland native Elizabeth King Eaton.
The Foundation formally accepted the $206,473 on Sept. 29, and Linda Byam, president of the Foundation's board of directors, thanked the King family for its generosity.
"Elizabeth King Eaton and her mother, Phoebe Dimock King, were lifelong librarians who loved books,'' Byam said. "The Foundation is thrilled to be able to use this generous bequest to sponsor many lively programs at the Tolland Public Library and to enhance what it has to offer."
When she died in 2009, Eaton, a medical librarian in Texas, bequeathed the gift to the Foundation to honor herself and her mother, who had served on the library staff in Tolland for many years.
Since then, income from the Phoebe Dimock King and Elizabeth C. King Eaton Endowment has been used to buy books, journals, magazines and other materials for the public to use at the library.
This spring, the Foundation granted the library $5,500 from the endowment to purchase six new computers for the public to use at the library. The grant was also used to upgrade eight other computers at the library. All of the computers currently used by the public at the library have been purchased through grants from the Foundation or the Friends of the Tolland Public Library; none were bought with town funds.
The bequest has also enabled the Foundation to hold a series of programs as part of its "Year of the Young Adult" initiative, to sponsor an annual poetry slam for middle and high school students and to host award-winning authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Dan Barry of The New York Times, in the popular Eaton-Dimock-King Authors Series. The Foundation has also offered a well-attended series on How to Pay for College that will be repeated on Oct. 22.
The EDK Endowment has also allowed the Foundation to provide popular databases such as Ancestry.com for use by library patrons. Income from the endowment has also been used to purchase two computers and software for young children and young adults to use at the library.
An expansion of the library is planned for 2015, and the Foundation expects to award grants to Library Director Barbara Pettijohn next year to purchase some materials for the library that have not been budgeted in the project. Under restrictions in Eaton's will, the EDK Endowment income cannot be used to fund library salaries or investments in the library's physical plant.
"This is an exciting time for the Tolland Public Library as we plan our expansion, and the Foundation will be an important partner for us,'' Pettijohn said. "We look forward to identifying exciting programs or initiatives that the Foundation will fund that go beyond what the town can provide."
About the Tolland Public Library Foundation
The Foundation was established in 1996 to receive donations to benefit the Tolland Public Library and to enhance library services beyond what the town budget provides. Tax-deductible donations can be sent to the Tolland Public Library Foundation, Inc., 21 Tolland Green, Tolland, CT 06084. For more information, visit tollandpubliclibraryfoundation.org or "like" the Foundation's page on Facebook.

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