I’m a home-schooling mom of two boys and I rely on the DeKalb Public Library for my curriculum needs. Thanks to the library’s resources I am able to provide a literature-rich home school environment; in the past four years we’ve been able to read over seventy books per year in our history lessons. Without the biographies, fiction, historical fiction and non-fiction I would have to purchase a textbook-based curriculum that doesn’t allow for the same immersion into the past as the “real” books can. Without the DeKalb Public Library, my sons would not have the love of reading, love of learning, and the comprehensive understanding of so many diverse topics that they do today.
Anna Hostetler, DeKalb

Growing up, the DeKalb Public Library was my favorite place to go on a Saturday. My dad would take me every other week, and he'd go to the magazine room and I would disappear into the children's area and find him when I had chosen an armful of books. I live in Iowa now, and I'm a librarian, no doubt in part because of all the wonderful experiences I had at DeKalb Public Library. Now, when I visit DeKalb, my daughter always wants to stop and spend time there!
Elaine Hayes, Iowa