The Birmingham Public Library (BPL) is hosting a meet and greet reception for Birmingham’s business, nonprofit, and community leaders on August 24, 2017. This event will include music and light refreshments.

The purpose of the Corporate Meet and Greet is to promote the library’s education programs, technology services, exhibits, and signature events that are available to assist business owners and nonprofits as well as the general public. The event is also designed to introduce business/nonprofit leaders desiring to partner with or make donations to the Birmingham Public Library 19 locations across the city. Donations to BPL are tax-deductible.

BPL staff will have stations sharing information about the Learning Center and Teen Zone that host programs such as the Teen Engineers BHM afterschool program, the Southern History Department that offers free genealogy classes, and the Archives Department that assists researchers doing books around the globe.

This BPL Corporate Meet & Greet is sponsored by the Friends Foundation of the Birmingham Public Library, Rusty’s Bar-B-Q, Birmingham Coca-Cola Bottling Company, and Publix Super Markets, Inc.