50 Years of Fountaindale

Fountaindale Public Library District is celebrating our 50th anniversary this entire year! We have proudly served the Bolingbrook community for five decades, and we want you to be part our celebration! We’re hosting a variety of events and opportunities throughout the year for you to help us celebrate and engage with your friends, family and other community members. We also have new anniversary library cards, weekly #ThrowBackThursday posts on Instagram and our exciting Pillars of the Community video series. See below for more information.

Pillars of the Community Campaign

Discover the importance of libraries from the pillars of your community with videos featuring our city’s key stakeholders, including Mayor Roger C. Claar, former Fountaindale Library Director Alex Todd, Bolingbrook Park District Executive Director Ron Oestreich and many more!

Join the Celebration

We have an exciting lineup of celebratory special events and activities coming your way. Don’t miss out on the fun!

Winter Carnival
Saturday, January 18, 7–10 p.m.
Don’t miss our exciting after-hours celebration to kick off our 50th anniversary! Enjoy games, prizes, snacks, laser tag, meet Anna and Elsa and much more! All ages

Summer Adventure Kickoff
Tuesday, June 2
Let’s kick off Summer Adventure: Celebrate! with an exciting party! Join us for an evening of fun, and be sure to sign up for Summer Adventure!

Summer Adventure: Celebrate!
Monday, June 1–Friday, July 31
Summer Adventure is our annual summer reading and activities program. You and your family can get in on the fun and earn prizes by exploring the library, community and world at large through reading, creating, play and more.

Ice Cream Social & Movie Night
Monday, July 27
Join us for ice cream, food, games and much more! At dusk, sit back and watch a movie on a giant inflatable screen.

Get Your Anniversary Library Card

To kick off our 50th anniversary festivities, we held a Library Card Design Contest in the fall of 2019. Congratulations to our three winners for their beautiful designs! You can get a new library card featuring any one of these images starting at our Winter Carnival in January, while supplies last. Please note, new cards are free of charge but will require you to get a new library card number.

#ThrowBackThursday at Fountaindale

Fountaindale Library in 1970

A Brief History of Fountaindale

Fountaindale Public Library District was officially formed in 1970 when we opened in a temporary space at Park View School in Romeoville. The immediate challenge of our first elected Board of Trustees was to develop plans for library facilities in each community. The communities showed their continuing support for by approving a referendum in 1973 to construct two identical library facilities in each community. The new buildings, which opened to the public in 1975, served the communities well for over thirty years.   READ MORE >