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Posted: Friday, July 27, 2012 10:00 am | Updated: 12:51 pm, Fri Jul 27, 2012.

This Saturday, the Indian Valley Public Library in Telford will be hopping with hops-lovers.

The popular, but financially struggling repository is holding a “brews for books” fundraiser.

It’s not the first time the library has allowed alcohol into the stacks. The last few years, the library has been holding wine-tastings in the fall, and it has organized smaller beer festivals in the past.

“There’s something really nice about walking around the library with a glass of wine or beer,” said Lisa Lombardo, one of the organizers. “It seems like a contradiction, but it’s a nice one.”

Though the beer festival will be held outdoors under a tent, the library will be open to attendees as well.

Lombardo said they’ve purchased enough beer for 500 people, and the library’s fundraising committee is hoping to raise between $12,000 and $15,000.

“It’s a really dynamic library,” she added. “What they do with the funding they have just speaks to the dedication of the people.”

The event will feature a home brewer competition as well as beers from about 20 different breweries, many of them local.

There will also be a home brewing demonstration, and a beer columnist comparing East and West Coast beers.

When the festival closes at 10 p.m., designated driver services will be available.

Free Will Brewery in Perkasie plans to have two beers on tap: Destiny’s Wit and its popular Citra Pale Ale.

Dominic Capece, co-owner of the recently licensed brewery, said Free Will tries to participate only in charity beer festivals. Free Will also peddles its wares in bars and restaurants throughout the greater Philadelphia region.

Capece is a graduate of Souderton School District and understands the importance of the Indian Valley library.

“That was the library I went to as a kid,” he said. “In the age of the Internet, some people think the library is outdated, but I still think they are important to have in a forward-thinking society.”

He added that beers and books are not necessarily incongruous.

“How many people sit down with a cold beer and read a book?” he asked. “It can help us relax and focus when used moderately and responsibly. … We have this tendency to think of beer in relation to the negative and destructive side. (To) most people, especially craft beer drinkers, it’s just one aspect of their lives.”

Money raised from the beer festival may go toward replacing the library’s public computers, which patrons use to access the Internet and for word processing, said Linda Beck, library director.

The Indian Valley Public Library is facing a significant funding cut, with Souderton School District planning to cut off the $440,000 it normally contributes to the library next year. The library has traditionally received the bulk of its more than $1 million annual budget from the school district and the six municipalities that compose it, with each entity providing 0.165 tax mills’ worth of money.

Earlier this year, the library cut its 2012 budget by about $220,000 to soften the blow of Souderton’s anticipated withdrawal from the funding agreement.

Beck and other library officials have been soliciting help from the towns that use the facility, asking them to double their contributions next year.

“In dollars and cents, for most people, the average goes from $10 a year to $20 a year,” Beck said. “It’s not huge. It’s a difference of $10.”

So far, she added, Franconia and Lower Salford have agreed to the increase, with several towns wanting to wait until the fall to make a firm decision.

In the meantime, however, bibliophiles can show their support for the library by raising their glasses at the festival this weekend.

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