The money will go toward East Lansing Public Library’s materials budget because of the reduction in the budget for the 2013 fiscal year, as well as the summer Maker Programs, which provides children, teens and adults an opportunity to learn, design and create. The programs include activities, such as model rockets powered by water, do-it-yourself microscopes, sewing and clothing design.

Funds also will be used for Code Camp, a four-week long computer-programming course for children. East Lansing Public Library Director Kristen Shelley said they hope to create a digital lab for writers and photographers in the East Lansing area as well.

As of Sunday the total raised during the event had not yet been calculated, although it will be close to $10,000, according to Shelley.

Elementary education junior Aubrey Makara uses the East Lansing Public Library every few months to create

lesson plans with the wide selection of children’s books the library offers. Makara said there are more children’s book options than the Main Library offers.

“Depending on the assignment, I use it as the basis of my lesson plans,” Makara said. “I took a music class and I had to find books that had like a rhythm to them to create lesson plans off that rhythm and describe how I would use it.”

Books, Bites and Bids also concluded National Library Week, a nationwide celebration sponsored by the American Library Association.