Dansville Rotary Club pledged to support the building expansion project several years before the official start of the "Where Knowledge Grows" Campaign. An initial gift of $10,700 was accepted by the library as part of Rotary’s official pledge of $25,000. The pledge supports children’s services and earned Rotary naming rights to the story room in the Shepard Memorial building and to one of the individual study rooms in the new addition.
Those on hand for the presentation of the check by Rotary President Graham Marcus were Library Board President Dave Reinholtz and Library Director Terry Dearing. The presentation was made during a children’s story time program in the Children’s Story Alcove.