BY JESI MUNGUIA
The Otsego County Library, for the first time, will host an event known as The Big Read.
The library was one of 78 organizations nationwide to receive a grant for the program.
The Big Read is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts designed to restore reading to the center of American culture.
The library will focus on the book The Great Gatsby. Their goal is to get the whole community to read the book, and they've ordered 300 copies of the book to make that possible.
Jackie Skinner is the Public Services Librarian at Otsego County Library.
"We chose The Great Gatsby because there's a new movie that's coming up starring Leonardo DiCaprio and so we thought that this would be a big draw for our younger people in the community and hopefully be interested in reading this extraordinary work of literature. And also people that have read it before maybe they can revisit and appreciate it a little bit more."
Skinner said, the Otsego library received a grant of 64-hundred dollars to fund the project.