🥇 Library Champion Newsletter #60 | We have some great Friends 💗
Library Champion,
👋 Welcome to our new subscribers! Glad to have you aboard
We are so excited to announce that we have new, more expanded hours:
Monday - 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Tuesday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Wednesday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Thursday - 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Friday - 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Saturday - 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Sunday - Closed
Online - 24/7/365 - visit our website.
Above: The 2022 Friends of the Library Officers
Back row, from left to right: Karen Haas, Kendra Haas, Pam Clark, Cindy Lucas
Front row, from left to right: Nancy Chrismer, Sally Switzer, Ginny Haubert
(not pictured: Richard Burkholder)
We really have some great Friends.
From the kayak raffle to their book sales, the Friends have raised nearly $4,000 in 2021! Meanwhile, the Friends have contributed over $7,200 to the library in 2021. With those funds, the library has been able to continue to offer mobile hotspots and Chromebooks and add more security cameras so that our library is safe and secure.
But the biggest number of all is $122,406.83: the amount of contributions the Friends have made all-time to the library.
Let that sink in.
Will you be a Friend of the Library? Join today!
Membership is as low as $10 a year. Student membership and senior citizen membership is $10. For individual adults it is $15, families are $25 and individual lifetime membership is $200. You can join any time by picking up a form in the library or printing it online on our website under the Support then Friends of the Library.
Hidden gem book of the week! – deep in our stacks are many great books. Give this hidden gem a try
Rodham by Curtis Sittenfeld (2020) (Adult fiction: literary)
In American Wife (2008), Sittenfeld imagined her way into Laura Bush’s head in the guise of a character named Alice Blackwell. In her new novel, she doesn’t bother to change the protagonists’ names, and we’re introduced to Hillary Rodham as she’s about to give her famous Wellesley College graduation speech and has an intimation of her “own singular future.” She goes to Yale, meets a charismatic former Rhodes Scholar, falls in love, catches him cheating on her, and follows him to Arkansas anyway. But then she decides not to marry him, Bill never becomes president and the history of the United States goes off in a different direction.
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🎅 Christmas is coming: shop for gifts at the library! 🎄
Get a head start on Christmas shopping for all the book lovers in your life. We have pre-filled and pre-wrapped book baskets with labels and gift tags ready to go! Some of these baskets even contain goodies like library mugs, slipper socks, dish towels, or are packaged in a reusable library tote. Baskets for all ages are priced between $5-$15. Stop in and check them out!
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Thank you for being a library champion. You make a difference each day!
--Vince Giordano
Librarian and Director of the Juniata County Library.
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