The Foundation and Friends of the Santa Clara City Library was established in 2000 by a dedicated group of volunteers headed by Nancy Toledo. In 2003 yours truly was hired as the organizations first executive director. In 2004 the volunteer organization know as the" Foundation and Friends" was created to staff the book sales and later the bookstore.
The many achievements in our brief history include the following:
We clearly defined our mission, goals and objectives.
We've established a strong voluntary Board that makes a significant financial and time contribution to our organization. We have 5 active committees of the Board.
We've created a well defined organization structure including the establishment of a much needed and loved volunteer membership.
We have secured gifts from many corporation, foundation and generous individuals (see page 7 for the complete listing).
We have been fortunate to have a dedicated and supportive library staff headed first by Karen Duffy and now by Karen Saunders.
And through our partnerships with corporations, the library has been able to fund wonderful programs - from the Applied Materials Summer Reading Program, to the Intel Technology Fund to the Kaiser Permanente Health and Wellness Collection.
Over the next year, we hope to expand funding for programs like the National Semiconductor Authors and Speakers Series and a writing contest in the schools. We hope to fund a Homework Center at the Mission Library and continue our support for Read Santa Clara, our library's incredibly successful literacy program, now in its 10th year. Our goals include providing funding for more Technology Classes, and providing more books, CDs and DVDs to the library's collection.
Everything we've done and everything we want to achieve in the future depends upon the commitment of staff, board, volunteers and donors like you. These are the ingredients that will sustain us as we move forward.
Jack Alotto, Executive Director
We clearly defined our mission, goals and objectives.
We've established a strong voluntary Board that makes a significant financial and time contribution to our organization. We have 5 active committees of the Board.
We've created a well defined organization structure including the establishment of a much needed and loved volunteer membership.
We have secured gifts from many corporation, foundation and generous individuals (see page 7 for the complete listing).
We have been fortunate to have a dedicated and supportive library staff headed first by Karen Duffy and now by Karen Saunders.
And through our partnerships with corporations, the library has been able to fund wonderful programs - from the Applied Materials Summer Reading Program, to the Intel Technology Fund to the Kaiser Permanente Health and Wellness Collection.
Over the next year, we hope to expand funding for programs like the National Semiconductor Authors and Speakers Series and a writing contest in the schools. We hope to fund a Homework Center at the Mission Library and continue our support for Read Santa Clara, our library's incredibly successful literacy program, now in its 10th year. Our goals include providing funding for more Technology Classes, and providing more books, CDs and DVDs to the library's collection.
Everything we've done and everything we want to achieve in the future depends upon the commitment of staff, board, volunteers and donors like you. These are the ingredients that will sustain us as we move forward.
Jack Alotto, Executive Director
For those of you who are not familiar with our Foundation and Friends Executive Director Jack Alotto, let me give you a brief introduction:
Jack was born in Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Philadelphia attending Catholic School. As most of you who receive his email know, this had a lasting effect on his personality and sense of humor. He has regaled us often with stories of the Sisters.
Jack was born in Pennsylvania. He spent his formative years in Philadelphia attending Catholic School. As most of you who receive his email know, this had a lasting effect on his personality and sense of humor. He has regaled us often with stories of the Sisters.
Jack went on to receive his BA in Psychology - Glassboro State College, (currently named Rowan University) Glassboro, New Jersey and his MA Psychology - State University of New York, Oswego, New York.
He has devoted his life's work to non-profit organizations.
Prior to coming to us in 2003, Jack was Foundation Relations Manager at Seton Medical Center and worked for St. Francis Medical Center in Los Angeles and various other organizations in the arts and humanitarian fields. He had the vast fundraising and grant management experience that the foundation board was looking for in their search for a director, Nancy Toledo (then president of the board), says of the process, "Jack was the overwhelming choice of all board members. We felt certain we had found the ideal candidate and we were right! What we failed to recognize was that we also had a tireless worker. And, he makes us all laugh".
If you haven't read an example of Jack's use of humor when making a point or asking for assistance, please read the following: "The Gift".
He has devoted his life's work to non-profit organizations.
Prior to coming to us in 2003, Jack was Foundation Relations Manager at Seton Medical Center and worked for St. Francis Medical Center in Los Angeles and various other organizations in the arts and humanitarian fields. He had the vast fundraising and grant management experience that the foundation board was looking for in their search for a director, Nancy Toledo (then president of the board), says of the process, "Jack was the overwhelming choice of all board members. We felt certain we had found the ideal candidate and we were right! What we failed to recognize was that we also had a tireless worker. And, he makes us all laugh".
If you haven't read an example of Jack's use of humor when making a point or asking for assistance, please read the following: "The Gift".
What We Did With The Money
During the last 2 1/2 years the members of the Foundation and Friends have been selling hooks, We sold books in a donated store front on El Camino Real and at an honor table in the temporary library. When the new library opened in April of 2004, we opened our bookstore and launched our monthly Saturday book sales.
Twice a year the members get together to discuss and approve funding requests that library staff submit to them.
Here are some of the projects and equipment we've funded: Books for finishers of the Applied Materials Summer Reading Program; children's library cards; Morningstar and Value Line; An interior book drop for the Mission Library; Folk Art for the Children's Pavilion; Heritage Quest and Ancestry Library Edition; New shades for the Central Park Library lobby windows; Read Santa Clara; A performance by Opera San Jose; A portable stage for the community rooms; Americorps for Literacy Programs; Patron wheelchairs; Literacy software.
And more...So when you buy a book or several, please be assured that we will put your money to good use!
Here are some of the projects and equipment we've funded: Books for finishers of the Applied Materials Summer Reading Program; children's library cards; Morningstar and Value Line; An interior book drop for the Mission Library; Folk Art for the Children's Pavilion; Heritage Quest and Ancestry Library Edition; New shades for the Central Park Library lobby windows; Read Santa Clara; A performance by Opera San Jose; A portable stage for the community rooms; Americorps for Literacy Programs; Patron wheelchairs; Literacy software.
And more...So when you buy a book or several, please be assured that we will put your money to good use!
The Gift
By Jack Alotto
Many of you have heard my stories about growing up in Philadelphia and attending St. Edmond's Catholic Elementary School.
During my second week of first grade, we were told that we were going to have a visit from a very important person. Mother Emmanuelle Marie Immaculata was coming to our class. I looked around at my classmates and wondered, so who's this person. Our first grade teacher, Sister Mary Ignatius, explained to us that Mother Emmanuelle was the chief nun in charge of our school; she further explained that out there in the non-Catholic world the schools had principals. But we Catholics, we had a Mother!
Wait a minute, who was that woman at my house?
We were instructed by Sister that when Mother came into the room (but not Father because he was a Jesuit), we were immediately to stand and say, "Good Morning Mother,” then be seated. We were to do this in unison. So that day we skipped math and science and practiced standing, saying good morning and sitting.
On the fateful day, I can't remember which day it was, Friday, December 3rd at 9:00 AM, Mother arrived. We stood up, said good morning, sat down. Those children who didn't do it correctly were given a poetry lesson and thrown from the Walt Whitman Bridge (that's the bridge that connects Philadelphia to New Jersey).
Mother said, "Children, every week I will come into your classroom and give you a very important lesson, some weeks I will tell you about those evil communists, but today I want to talk to you about reading. From this day forward, I want you to read everything you can. When your parents are driving you to church, I want you to read all of the street signs and billboards you pass. I want you to read the sides of buses. I want you to read the newspaper and the box of cereal in front of you each morning, read, read and then read some more. Learn to read and you will discover a world that is so much bigger than this classroom, this school and even the United States. And children, when you think you are bored with a book, promise me that you will read at least 50 pages before you quit the book."
For Mother, reading was as important to our mind and life as grace was to our soul. And it was fun!
That was Mother Emmanuelle Marie Immaculata's gift to me and several hundred first graders. It was her passion, love and enthusiastic endorsement of reading. Reading for her was a great joy, something to pursue vigorously, Mother has probably long since died, but her gift is still mine. What a gift! Pass it on!
By Jack Alotto
Many of you have heard my stories about growing up in Philadelphia and attending St. Edmond's Catholic Elementary School.
During my second week of first grade, we were told that we were going to have a visit from a very important person. Mother Emmanuelle Marie Immaculata was coming to our class. I looked around at my classmates and wondered, so who's this person. Our first grade teacher, Sister Mary Ignatius, explained to us that Mother Emmanuelle was the chief nun in charge of our school; she further explained that out there in the non-Catholic world the schools had principals. But we Catholics, we had a Mother!
Wait a minute, who was that woman at my house?
We were instructed by Sister that when Mother came into the room (but not Father because he was a Jesuit), we were immediately to stand and say, "Good Morning Mother,” then be seated. We were to do this in unison. So that day we skipped math and science and practiced standing, saying good morning and sitting.
On the fateful day, I can't remember which day it was, Friday, December 3rd at 9:00 AM, Mother arrived. We stood up, said good morning, sat down. Those children who didn't do it correctly were given a poetry lesson and thrown from the Walt Whitman Bridge (that's the bridge that connects Philadelphia to New Jersey).
Mother said, "Children, every week I will come into your classroom and give you a very important lesson, some weeks I will tell you about those evil communists, but today I want to talk to you about reading. From this day forward, I want you to read everything you can. When your parents are driving you to church, I want you to read all of the street signs and billboards you pass. I want you to read the sides of buses. I want you to read the newspaper and the box of cereal in front of you each morning, read, read and then read some more. Learn to read and you will discover a world that is so much bigger than this classroom, this school and even the United States. And children, when you think you are bored with a book, promise me that you will read at least 50 pages before you quit the book."
For Mother, reading was as important to our mind and life as grace was to our soul. And it was fun!
That was Mother Emmanuelle Marie Immaculata's gift to me and several hundred first graders. It was her passion, love and enthusiastic endorsement of reading. Reading for her was a great joy, something to pursue vigorously, Mother has probably long since died, but her gift is still mine. What a gift! Pass it on!
Hello and welcome from the volunteers of the Foundation and Friends of the Santa Clara City Library. I'm Martha Allshouse Hull, better known around the library and to my friends as Marty. I've been a Santa Clara resident for over 40 years and library lover for as long as I can remember. I am retired from my position as a history teacher at Los Gatos High School. I now spend some of my time and energy on library activities.
The Foundation and Friends of the Santa Clara Library is a membership organization ($10 individual & $15 family--application forms available in the Bookstore) devoted to a variety of activities to benefit the library and the library community:
Staffed only by volunteers we operate the bookstore, located in the lobby of the library, where we accept book donations and sell books.
We hold monthly book sales which generate the major part of our revenue. The volunteers spend Fridays setting up the sale, and all day Saturday selling and cleaning up afterwards.
We also do "outreach projects,” donating books to Santa Clara County correctional facilities, to the men and women serving in Iraq, to refugee centers here (victims of hurricane Katrina) and abroad.
All of these efforts would not be possible without our dedicated corps of enthusiastic volunteers. We could use more book sorters, book sellers and people to help with the monthly book sales.
Again I want to thank all the volunteers who make it work.
MARTHA ALLSHOUSE HULL
President, Friends Volunteers
TO BECOME A VOLUNTEER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
Sign up on our web site (www.lovethelibrary.org), pick up an application in the book store, or send Marty an email at allshull@comcast.net
Sign up on our web site (www.lovethelibrary.org), pick up an application in the book store, or send Marty an email at allshull@comcast.net
The AAB Corner
(All About Books)
We all share a passion for the library and each of us might express it in a different way, but getting down to basics - it’s all about the books, right? With that in mind we will be including a column on brief book reviews in each issue. In the future, we’d like to include recommendations from our readers. So please send your book recommendations via email to: bookreviews@lovethelibrary.org. (Include book title, author and a one or two sentence comment.)
This issue...
“An Unquiet Mind” - Ken Redfield Jamison
“Icy Sparks” - Gwyn Hyman Rubio
“She’s Come Undone” - Wally Lamb
These books share a common theme of a certain level of mental illness in the main character.
(All About Books)
We all share a passion for the library and each of us might express it in a different way, but getting down to basics - it’s all about the books, right? With that in mind we will be including a column on brief book reviews in each issue. In the future, we’d like to include recommendations from our readers. So please send your book recommendations via email to: bookreviews@lovethelibrary.org. (Include book title, author and a one or two sentence comment.)
This issue...
“An Unquiet Mind” - Ken Redfield Jamison
“Icy Sparks” - Gwyn Hyman Rubio
“She’s Come Undone” - Wally Lamb
These books share a common theme of a certain level of mental illness in the main character.
NANCY TOLEDO
Foundation Board Member
“The Power of One” - Bryce Courtenay
The story of an English boy named P.K. who grows up in South Africa and his passion for changing the world.
The story of an English boy named P.K. who grows up in South Africa and his passion for changing the world.
JACK ALOTTO
Executive Director,
Santa Clara City Library Foundation
“Blind Descent” - Nevada Barr
Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent on a subterranean rescue to save fellow ranger trapped in the depths of the Lechugilla Cave near the Carlsbad Caverns. Not a book for the claustrophobic.
“The Confidence Woman” - Judith Van Gieson
University librarian turned amateur sleuth Claire Reynier steps into a case involving old college friends, a stolen rare book, and identity theft. The plot takes several twists and turns before Claire is cleared of suspected murder.
Park Ranger Anna Pigeon is sent on a subterranean rescue to save fellow ranger trapped in the depths of the Lechugilla Cave near the Carlsbad Caverns. Not a book for the claustrophobic.
“The Confidence Woman” - Judith Van Gieson
University librarian turned amateur sleuth Claire Reynier steps into a case involving old college friends, a stolen rare book, and identity theft. The plot takes several twists and turns before Claire is cleared of suspected murder.
KAREN SAUNDERS
Acting City Librarian
“Harry Potter and The Half Blood Prince” - J. K. Rowling
I like this one more than the previous Order of the Phoenix. Harry is not as angry and the story is more like the first books.
I like this one more than the previous Order of the Phoenix. Harry is not as angry and the story is more like the first books.
LEE BROUGHMAN
Foundation Board Member
Monthly Book Sales
The Foundation and Friends conduct a book sale on the 3rd Saturday of every month. The sales take place in the Redwood Room at the Central Park library. Members of the Friends of the Library are permitted to enter the sales at 9 AM, which is an hour earlier than the general public. 'The public is admitted to the sales at lOam; the sales end at 2 PM.
At the sales, paperback books sell for 5 books for $1.00, hard cover fiction books sell 3 for $1.00, and hard cover non-fiction books sell for $1.00 each. During the last hour of the sale, books are often sold by the grocery bag as many books as will fit in a standard paper grocery bag for $3.00.
Drop by the hook sale and check out the incredible bargains. And remember: if you can't wait for the monthly hook sale, the Foundation and Friends bookstore in the Central Park Library is open every day for bargain book shopping!
The Foundation and Friends conduct a book sale on the 3rd Saturday of every month. The sales take place in the Redwood Room at the Central Park library. Members of the Friends of the Library are permitted to enter the sales at 9 AM, which is an hour earlier than the general public. 'The public is admitted to the sales at lOam; the sales end at 2 PM.
At the sales, paperback books sell for 5 books for $1.00, hard cover fiction books sell 3 for $1.00, and hard cover non-fiction books sell for $1.00 each. During the last hour of the sale, books are often sold by the grocery bag as many books as will fit in a standard paper grocery bag for $3.00.
Drop by the hook sale and check out the incredible bargains. And remember: if you can't wait for the monthly hook sale, the Foundation and Friends bookstore in the Central Park Library is open every day for bargain book shopping!
Event Highlights
Congressman Mike Honda at the Foundation and Friends booth at the All-City Open House
The Agilent Technology Science Kids Program
Tom Biagini, chairman (top )
and Nancy Toledo, secretary (bottom)
addressing Donors Appreciation Night
Foundation Board Vice President David Stringer-Calvert and Executive Director Jack Alotto with a volunteer at the Summer Reading Program
During the Summer Reading Program, Library staffer Erin Ulrich helps a child
Santa Clara City Mayor (center), Karen Saunders (Acting City Librarian, left) and Ken Young (Foundation and Friends Board Member, right)
Internet Book Sales Hit $3,500
Book sales over the internet through alibris.com bring in $3,500 a month.
Many of the books that are donated to the Foundation and Friends are worth more money than would be realized if the books were sold at the Central Park Library bookstore or at the monthly Foundation and Friends book sale. The Foundation and Friends sells these books through alibris.com to achieve greater income.
The Friends group often receives donations of vintage books. These books are being sold online at alibris.com.
The Friends group often receives donations of vintage books. These books are being sold online at alibris.com.
Alibris Internet Site
Books Ready for Shipping
Contributors
FOUNDER ($100,000 -$249,9990
The Applied Materials Foundation
Foundation and Friends of the Santa Clara City Library
Intel Corporation
Kaiser Permanente Foundation
BENEFACTOR ($50,000 - $99,999)
Rivermark Partners
PATRON ($5,000 - $49,999)
Agere Systems
Agilent Technologies
Community Foundation of Silicon Valley
Delta Kappa Gamma Society
Hewlett Packard Corporation
In Memory of Loretta Claypool
Mission City Community Fund
National Semiconductor Corporation
NEC Electronics America
SBC Communications
Smurfit Stone Container Corporation
The Teaching Company
Nancy Toledo
Matt and Lisa Toledo and Family
The Valley Foundation
Steve and Anita Westly Foundation
SPONSOR ($1,000 -$4,999)
A Friend of the Library
Jack Alotto
Annomyous
Terry and Carol L. Austen
Bay Area Telugu Association
Barnes and Noble Booksellers
Thomas J. Biagini
Maura Burns
Robert and Shirley Byrd
David and Karen Duffy
Indo American Society of the Bay Area
Emilio and Fatima M. Francisco
Greater Bay Bancorp Foundation
Michael J. Kirsch Foundation
India Cash and Carry
Indo American Community of the Bay Area
Jagadeesh Family Foundation
Hyperion
Hwa Kwon Kim
Tae Kwon Kim
Mr. and Mrs,Jayaramarao Komati
Dinesh Kumar
Bea Lichtenstein
Michelle Mann
Jerome and Judy Nadler
Roger Noia
Outback Steak House
Paramount Great America
Ross Payne
David V. and Sandra S. Rich
Round Table Pizza
San Francisco Giants
Sankara Eye Foundation Volunteers
Jack and Shirley Spillane
Dr. David W.J. Stringer-Calvert
Target Carporation
Edward and Carolyn Schulte
Walmart Foundation
Wells Fargo Bank
Kenneth and Nancy Young
The Applied Materials Foundation
Foundation and Friends of the Santa Clara City Library
Intel Corporation
Kaiser Permanente Foundation
BENEFACTOR ($50,000 - $99,999)
Rivermark Partners
PATRON ($5,000 - $49,999)
Agere Systems
Agilent Technologies
Community Foundation of Silicon Valley
Delta Kappa Gamma Society
Hewlett Packard Corporation
In Memory of Loretta Claypool
Mission City Community Fund
National Semiconductor Corporation
NEC Electronics America
SBC Communications
Smurfit Stone Container Corporation
The Teaching Company
Nancy Toledo
Matt and Lisa Toledo and Family
The Valley Foundation
Steve and Anita Westly Foundation
SPONSOR ($1,000 -$4,999)
A Friend of the Library
Jack Alotto
Annomyous
Terry and Carol L. Austen
Bay Area Telugu Association
Barnes and Noble Booksellers
Thomas J. Biagini
Maura Burns
Robert and Shirley Byrd
David and Karen Duffy
Indo American Society of the Bay Area
Emilio and Fatima M. Francisco
Greater Bay Bancorp Foundation
Michael J. Kirsch Foundation
India Cash and Carry
Indo American Community of the Bay Area
Jagadeesh Family Foundation
Hyperion
Hwa Kwon Kim
Tae Kwon Kim
Mr. and Mrs,Jayaramarao Komati
Dinesh Kumar
Bea Lichtenstein
Michelle Mann
Jerome and Judy Nadler
Roger Noia
Outback Steak House
Paramount Great America
Ross Payne
David V. and Sandra S. Rich
Round Table Pizza
San Francisco Giants
Sankara Eye Foundation Volunteers
Jack and Shirley Spillane
Dr. David W.J. Stringer-Calvert
Target Carporation
Edward and Carolyn Schulte
Walmart Foundation
Wells Fargo Bank
Kenneth and Nancy Young
CONTRIBUTOR ($250-$999)
AMD Matching Gift Program
S.J. Amoroso Construction Co., Inc.
John and Kathleen Angood
Lee Love Broughman
David and Nancy C. Crabbe
Patrick Dugan
The Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies
Jan and Don Lieberman
John L. McLemore and Clysta E. Seney
Patricia H. Mc Elroy
Keith McLauin and Mary E. Boyle
Virgil L. Parsons
Santa Clara Historic Home Tour
Karen and Gregg Saunders
Charles and Norma Schlossman
Lisa R Shemwell
Elsie N. Strickwerda
John and Marge Verga
Kathleen and Lloyd Wilson
Charlotte Yu
SUPPORTER ($100-$249)
Jayaprakash Ammu
George and Geormaine Begg
Monty and Corinne Blankenship
Christopher and Jane Botsford
Richard and Rickie Craig
Gary Chock
Cleanworks Inc.
Diane and James Dobson
Dena Donahoe
Jessica Dang and Tam Do
East West Inc.
Stella Eccieston
Joseph and Bernadette Fincutter
Ramchander Gopalswamy
San Jose De Guadalupe Chapter
Carol Halter
Kathryn and Alex Harper
Martha Hull
Rebecca and Mary Grace Johnson
Carol A.Jossi
Tom Kondo
Madhu C. Kuverji
Ramesh Mandalapu
Howard Michaels
In memory of Earl C. Monday and Manuel A. Leon
Kevin Moore
Lakshmi Moorty
Monticello Child Development Center
Shree Sai Pooncholai, Inc.
Schaaf Civil Engineers
Govind and Anitha Pasumarti
Tirumala Rao and Ranjana Gobburu
Prema Sriram
Patel Sonal
Padma Parthasarathy Sundaram
Garbor Szobosz!ay
Vinay and Prabha Tatapudy
Dma and Rajesh Unadkat
Komala Vilas
Kenneth and Regina Williams
James Ybarra
AMD Matching Gift Program
S.J. Amoroso Construction Co., Inc.
John and Kathleen Angood
Lee Love Broughman
David and Nancy C. Crabbe
Patrick Dugan
The Johnson and Johnson Family of Companies
Jan and Don Lieberman
John L. McLemore and Clysta E. Seney
Patricia H. Mc Elroy
Keith McLauin and Mary E. Boyle
Virgil L. Parsons
Santa Clara Historic Home Tour
Karen and Gregg Saunders
Charles and Norma Schlossman
Lisa R Shemwell
Elsie N. Strickwerda
John and Marge Verga
Kathleen and Lloyd Wilson
Charlotte Yu
SUPPORTER ($100-$249)
Jayaprakash Ammu
George and Geormaine Begg
Monty and Corinne Blankenship
Christopher and Jane Botsford
Richard and Rickie Craig
Gary Chock
Cleanworks Inc.
Diane and James Dobson
Dena Donahoe
Jessica Dang and Tam Do
East West Inc.
Stella Eccieston
Joseph and Bernadette Fincutter
Ramchander Gopalswamy
San Jose De Guadalupe Chapter
Carol Halter
Kathryn and Alex Harper
Martha Hull
Rebecca and Mary Grace Johnson
Carol A.Jossi
Tom Kondo
Madhu C. Kuverji
Ramesh Mandalapu
Howard Michaels
In memory of Earl C. Monday and Manuel A. Leon
Kevin Moore
Lakshmi Moorty
Monticello Child Development Center
Shree Sai Pooncholai, Inc.
Schaaf Civil Engineers
Govind and Anitha Pasumarti
Tirumala Rao and Ranjana Gobburu
Prema Sriram
Patel Sonal
Padma Parthasarathy Sundaram
Garbor Szobosz!ay
Vinay and Prabha Tatapudy
Dma and Rajesh Unadkat
Komala Vilas
Kenneth and Regina Williams
James Ybarra
Calendar of Events
November 19
Friends of the Library Booksale: Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
November 22
Book Discussion Group: "Family History" by Danl Shapiro. Tuesday 10:00 a.m.
November 30
Central Park Library Redwood Community Room Shar Mar will discuss her research trip to China
December 1
Public Computer Training: Internet Basics, Thursday, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
December 13
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group. Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
December 14
Central Park Library Redwood Community Room
Foundation and Friends meet to award book sale proceeds to the library programs
December 15
Public Computer Training: Library Catalog Class. Thursday, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Book Reviews, Thursday, 1:30 p.m.
December 27
Book Discussion Group: "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.
November 19
Friends of the Library Booksale: Saturday, 9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.
November 22
Book Discussion Group: "Family History" by Danl Shapiro. Tuesday 10:00 a.m.
November 30
Central Park Library Redwood Community Room Shar Mar will discuss her research trip to China
December 1
Public Computer Training: Internet Basics, Thursday, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
December 13
Alzheimer's Caregiver Support Group. Tuesday, 7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
December 14
Central Park Library Redwood Community Room
Foundation and Friends meet to award book sale proceeds to the library programs
December 15
Public Computer Training: Library Catalog Class. Thursday, 10:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Book Reviews, Thursday, 1:30 p.m.
December 27
Book Discussion Group: "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Tuesday, 10:00 a.m.
Dates of the 2006 Book Sales
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