Pouring Over Books

14th Annual Pouring Over Books – Feb 23, 2025

On Sunday, February 23, 2025, the Friends will host the 14th Annual Pouring Over Books fundraiser at The Prospect House in Dripping Springs. This event is our biggest fundraiser and will include a discussion and book signing with acclaimed Texas author Lynda Rutledge, author of bestselling book West With Giraffes. Live music provided by Jerry Kirk, as well as an online auction and door prizes!

Guests will be offered complimentary fine wines, craft beers and premium teas, as well as delicious bites.

The event runs from 3PM to 6PM. The silent auction ends at 5:00PM so winning bidders can collect their prizes at the event. Join us for this joyful event to benefit our community library!

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Your donation to Pouring Over Books supports our mission to support library programs and resources for the community.

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Supporting the Friends is supporting our Dripping Springs Community Library.

We look forward to seeing you at Pouring Over Books 2025.

Children Reading Program

How We Help

A new record amount of $20,000 was donated in 2024 for library equipment, programs, and services.

13,000 Active library patrons use our local Dripping Springs Community Library to access library equipment, programs, and services, early learning software, summer programs, musical concerts, an expanded eReader program, a Maker’s Space, and so much more.

In 2024, some of the Friends donated money was spent on:

  • $13,000 for Summer Programming and Prizes
  • Automated External Defibrillator (AED)
  • 3D Printer ( now offering 3D printing services to patrons)
  • ‘Stay Sharp Kits’ that promote adult memory and cognition skills
  • Master Gardeners Healthy Outdoor Communities Initiative (to fix up the beds in front of the library)
  • Thinkery Passes (free admission for patrons to Austin’s most popular children’s museum)

The Dripping Springs Community Library is an essential resource. Look at these numbers:

There are over 54,000 people living in our service area and over 13,000 active card holders.

Featuring Acclaimed Texas Author

Lynda Rutledge

Lynda Rutledge has crisscrossed both literary and geographic boundaries in her writing career after earning an MA in American literature and an MFA in creative writing. As an animal-and-travel-loving freelance journalist, she petted baby rhinos, snorkeled with endangered turtles, strolled with a tower of giraffes, hang-glided off a small Swiss mountain, and dodged hurricanes to write dozens of articles for national publications such as the Chicago Tribune and Houston Post, along with eclectic book-length nonfiction for organizations such as Habitat for Humanity and the San Diego Zoo, before beginning her career as a novelist.Since then, she’s won awards and residencies for her fiction from, among others, the Illinois Arts Council, Ragdale Foundation, Atlantic Center for the Arts and Writers League of Texas. Her debut novel was Faith Bass Darling’s Last Garage Sale, which won the 2013 Writers League of Texas Novel of the Year and has been adapted into a major French film starring Catherine Deneuve.

Lynda Rutledge - Author of West With Giraffes

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