Below is a list of items the Friends of Middletown Thrall Library have purchased for Thrall Library in recent years. Not included in this list are the many educational programs sponsored by the Friends and held at the library for children and adults.
- Street signs directing drivers to Middletown Thrall Library
- Public use computers for:
- Children's Department
- Genealogy/Local History
- David Moore Heights branch
- Summitfield branch
- Public word processor
- Accu-cut dies for Children's Dept. (for various shapes for craft programs)
- Jazz CD's for the Mattie Gaines Memorial Collection
- Funds establish an adult-level book collection at Summitfield branch
- Trademark Register of the United States
- Sculpture from Aniquity to the Present
- Historic Documents Series
- American Business Disc subscription
- McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology
- Encyclopedia American (print and CD-ROM)
- Digital camera
- Computer scanner for Local History/desktop publishing/website
- Display shelving and holders
- 8-drawer CD-ROM storage cabinet for Government Documents
- Indexes to the Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (Truman to Bush)
- Twayne Series on US and British Authors (109 volumes)
- WPA Federal Writers' Project Guidebooks (32 volumes)
- Columbia Granger World of Poetry CD-ROM (full text of 11,000 poems; indexes 135,000 poems)
- American Decades (1900 - 2000)
- International Encyclopedia of Dance
- Chronology of European History - 15,000 B.C. to 1996
- The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620 - 1633
- The Dictionary of Art (34 Volumes)
- Numerous Public programs for Children and Adults
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