The Hopkinsville-Christian County Public Library has hired a new coordinator for the Imagination Library program. She is Hopkinsville Community College graduate Megan Marsh.
Marsh has experience in event planning and fundraising and recently volunteered with the United Way of the Pennyrile for the Foster Care and Youth Service Advisory Board.
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Imagination Library, founded by country musician and philanthropist Dolly Parton, provides free books every month for children from birth until they begin kindergarten. Christian County’s Imagination Library is beginning its eighth year and was previously coordinated by retired educator Bonnie Lynch.
“The program averages approximately 3,400 children enrolled each month throughout the county,” a library spokeswoman said in a news release. “Funding for the program is provided through local government support, the United Way of the Pennyrile and private donations.”
Families can register children online here.
“We are excited that Megan chose to join us as the Imagination Library coordinator,” Library Director DeeAnna Sova said in the release. “She comes to us with a fundraising background, and I know she will continue the mission to get books into the hands of the children of Christian County.”
Anyone interested in making a donation to the program should email Sova.
Marsh will begin the coordinator’s job on July 30
Jennifer P. Brown is co-founder, publisher and editor of Hoptown Chronicle. You can reach her at editor@hoptownchronicle.org. Brown was a reporter and editor at the Kentucky New Era, where she worked for 30 years. She is a co-chair of the national advisory board to the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, governing board past president for the Kentucky Historical Society, and co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition. She serves on the Hopkinsville History Foundation's board.
