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Now Accepting Applications for 2023 Friends Scholarships
Each spring, the Friends award $2,000 scholarships to up to three graduating high school seniors who demonstrate a passion for reading. Students from Lake Forest, Lake Bluff, and Knollwood are eligible to apply. The Friends of Lake Forest Library inaugurated this scholarship in 2003 to recognize stu...
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Announcing the Fifth Annual READ BETWEEN THE RAVINES Featured Title
Join us this coming spring for Read Between the Ravines, the joint nonfiction reading program between Lake Forest and Lake Bluff libraries! We are pleased to announce this year's featured book: "An Indian Among Los Indígenas: A Native Travel Memoir" by Ursula Pike. Events kick off at both libr...
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Lake Forest Library: inspiring lifelong learning, promoting the free and respectful exchange of ideas, and building community. Read about the history of the Library
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We believe passionately in the transformative power of ideas and the future of libraries, enabling everyone in the community to fulfill the universal desire to learn, explore, and belong.