We are proud to host a group of 20 students and their teachers at each of our meetings. These guests receive a copy of the featured author’s book in advance of the luncheon meeting and participate in a special one-hour discussion with the author, followed by lunch and the author’s presentation. This program is facilitated through the generosity of our education benefactors.
We have hosted students from the following schools:
Amistad High School
California State University, San Bernardino, Palm Desert Campus
Cathedral City High School
Coachella Valley High School
College of the Desert
Desert Hot Springs High School
Desert Mirage High School
Indio High School
La Quinta High School
Palm Desert High School
Palm Springs High School
Palm Valley School
Rancho Mirage High School
Shadow Hills High School
Summit High School
West Shores High School
Xavier College Prepaaratory
Library Outreach: In Support of Literacy and the Love of Reading
Last season, thanks to the generosity of our members we provided $2,500 grants to each of the Coachella Valley libraries. We are particularly grateful to our library benefactors for their generous support of this initiative.
It enabled the following programs:
Cabazon Library: The summer reading program, a December performer, and craft supplies
Cathedral City Library: Spanish materials, support for Reading by Design and summer reading program.
Coachella Library: Support for the Cesar Chavez Collection in the Desert.
College of the Desert Library: Additional student resources for COD’s Indio location.
Desert Hot Springs Library: A movie license to host Saturday movies for the community and children’s materials.
Indio Library: The summer reading program and a performer.
La Quinta Library: Hosting Booktober Fest and adult programming.
Mecca Library: Summer reading program incentives, Scholastic children’s books, and a professional performer.
Palm Desert Library: Collection support.
Palm Springs Library: Give away books to participants of summer reading program.
Rancho Mirage Library: Purchase of 80-90 books in various genres with bookplate designating LSD as donor.
Thousand Palms Library: Building the large print collection
Learn more: https://literarysocietyofthedesert.wildapricot.org
