Fountaindale Public Library District is celebrating our 50th anniversary this entire year! We have proudly served the Bolingbrook community for five decades, and we want you to be part our celebration! We’re hosting a variety of events and opportunities throughout the year for you to help us celebrate and engage with your friends, family and other community members. We also have new anniversary library cards, weekly #ThrowBackThursday posts on Instagram and our exciting Pillars of the Community video series. See below for more information.
To kick off our 50th anniversary festivities, we held a Library Card Design Contest in the fall of 2019. Congratulations to our three winners for their beautiful designs! You can get a new library card featuring any one of these images, while supplies last. Please note, new cards are free of charge but will require you to get a new library card number.
Happy Birthday, Fountaindale Puppet Show
Discover the importance of libraries from the pillars of your community with videos featuring our city’s key stakeholders, including Mayor Roger C. Claar, former Fountaindale Library Director Alex Todd, Bolingbrook Park District Executive Director Ron Oestreich and many more!
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Fountaindale Public Library District was officially formed in 1970 when we opened in a temporary space at Park View School in Romeoville. The immediate challenge of our first elected Board of Trustees was to develop plans for library facilities in each community. The communities showed their continuing support for by approving a referendum in 1973 to construct two identical library facilities in each community. The new buildings, which opened to the public in 1975, served the communities well for over thirty years. READ MORE >