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                         News and information                                                                November 2016

In This Issue

Fall Book Sale
Library Banners
Membership Renewal
Lifelong Readers
New Friends Logo
Spotlight on Molly Skeen

 

Grants to the Library

The Friends donated a total of $18,050 to the Tualatin Library for a variety of programs this year. Please link to 2016 Grants to the Tualatin Library for a list of our donations.

Got Paperbacks?

Mass market paperbacks are popular with our book sale shoppers. Now we find we have a shortage. If you have any to donate, please drop them off at the library.

Fall Book Sale

Our spring book sale was a huge success, so we're repeating the three-day format for the fall book sale:

Friday, November 4, 3-6 pm
Saturday, November 5, 10 am-4 pm
Sunday, November 6, 1-4 pm

Sunday hours will be the “bag sale" where regularly priced books will be $2 for a bag; media and special priced items will be 50% off. 

This time we have some especially good selections:
  • Hundreds of sci-fi/fantasy books
  • A nice collection of children’s picture books
  • Juvenile books for children 6-12 years of age
  • Fiction and non-fiction titles for adults
  • Christmas/holiday books, magazines and DVDs
  • Hundreds of postcards from a collection recently donated to the library
  • Large collection of really nice auto-repair guides withdrawn from the library

We will also have the new Friends of the Tualatin Library bags for sale at a very affordable price. These heavy-duty bags are ideal for carrying an armload of heavy books (or groceries).

Want to volunteer? Contact Allison Austin at allison4packers@gmail.com or leave your name and phone number at the Library Help Desk.

Hope to see you at the sale.

Library Banners

Have you noticed the new banners hanging from light poles on the streets surrounding the library? The library purchased them with a $2000 donation from the Friends.

The banners include the words "Tualatin Library: Discover the past, Create the Future" and pictures of a mastodon and a winding river trail.

"'Discover the Past' reflects Tualatin Library’s unique mastodon display and local interest in the Ice Age floods. It also evokes the knowledge and information you can discover at the Library." said Library Manager Jerianne Thompson.

"'Create the Future' captures the potential that the Library brings our community. Modern libraries are places for engagement and action; we are change agents. Our public library strives to expand access to learning opportunities, allowing all people a chance for a successful future, no matter what their current situation. We want the residents of Tualatin to see Tualatin Library as a place that helps them create their best future."

Jerianne said other elements of the design evoke the new Ice Age-themed Tualatin River Greenway trail, adjacent to the Library, with a book representing the Oregon mountains on Tualatin’s horizon. "It’s a figurative path from the past to the future representing the literal path we want to help people take," she said.

The new shopping center plays a role too. "With the new retail developments that surround the Library bringing more local and regional visitors to the area, we want to draw attention to Tualatin Public Library," Jerianne said.

"Each driver’s glimpse from a passing car, or each bus full of commuters, gives us a potential connection. We hope that some are inspired to think, 'Hey, I haven’t been to the library in a while, I should drop by.' We also hope to create curiosity in those who have never visited the Tualatin Library. If the mastodon catches their eye, or if they are visiting the Tualatin River Greenway, they may pop in for a look. Once visitors see our lovely library and meet our friendly staff, many are impressed and become repeat visitors.

The banners are printed on heavy duty material to withstand rainy/windy weather conditions. The library plans to hang them every fall and spring.

Membership Renewal

Membership in the Friends runs from January to December, so it will soon be time to renew. Watch for a snail-mail letter from us with options for renewing; you can either renew with a check or online with a credit card. We offer a variety of membership categories, starting at $5/year. The annual renewal notice will also include a ballot for election of next year's officers and board members.

Lifelong Readers

Long-time Friends volunteers Virginia Green and Eleanore Mickus are lifelong readers. They gave us permission to share a recent email exchange on their reading experiences growing up.
 
Eleanore: Virginia, it's interesting that you mention that there was no young people’s literature when you grew up. Recently a young lady asked about my reading experience through the years. There weren't many books, besides the textbooks in school -- just fairy tales and then a few teen books in middle school. The book Seventeen was read by all of us 13-14 year old girls in 8th grade -- it fed our emerging romantic feelings at the time.  I recall it being a series of books but don’t remember any other titles in the series. I also remember reading Captain From Castile and found a copy at one of our books sales -- not the same reading it today.  Glad to know I wasn’t deprived in some way!

Virginia: I don't remember Seventeen except maybe a movie with Liz Taylor?? Captain from Castile by Samuel Shellabarger was also a favorite of mine followed up by the movie with one of my favorite actors, Tyrone Power, probably about 1947.  Albert Payson Terhune wrote Lad: A Dog, a wonderful collection of stories about collies, which I loved at age 13. These probably would fall into the Young Adult section today but adults also read them at the time. I got into the "Bounty" series and read all three -- Mutiny on the Bounty, Men Against the Sea, and Pitcairn's Island about the 9th grade so there were books out there but you had to search for them.  I remember a wonderful librarian at the West Duluth Library directed me to Jane Eyre and the Jalna series in those middle school years which we called junior high then.  Fun to remember back to what we were reading in those formative years. I usually found an author and stuck with them for a while.

Eleanore: It wasn’t middle school for me either since it was a rural school. We just went through 8th grade and then went to the junior high in the city for 9th grade where we finally had a decent library instead of shelves that were probably the size of the Friends Ongoing Book Sale. Times change.

Virginia: Certainly, it is fun to share what books you loved and fond memories of library visits growing up.  We could walk to the West Duluth Library from home -- my friends and I did so regularly. Also, as a preschooler, I went to the library with my mother almost weekly when she would get books and magazines for my dad. I clearly remember in the 1st grade when I got to paint at the big easel with the tempera paints, I painted a picture of the library. I took a photo of the library (pictured above) on a visit back to Duluth some years ago, just before they demolished it and replaced it with a new building. You must have some good memories of your library experiences too.

Eleanore: I’ll have to look for the photo of the bookmobile that we used for 20 or so years. It would come to the corner near our house, which was in the country. Funny, my daughter can tell you about the books she found on a shelf in our basement that would probably have been pretty racy for her at the time but she was like me and devoured books. If I knew she read them, I don’t remember.

Virginia: That is wonderful that you had a bookmobile to find books that intrigued you and satisfied your thirst for information and enjoyment! I know how much access to a library/bookmobile can enrich your life. Not having Young Adult books available, no doubt many of the books you and I read would today be considered Adult. I re-read Jane Eyre when I was in my 50s and was struck by the vocabulary and the somewhat archaic writing style, which I do not remember noticing at fifteen. Times change and much for the better but there is some magic in the past as we remember it.

We love our logo. Some years ago we held a contest and selected it from a variety of submissions. This year we took a fresh look and decided to tweak it just a bit. We added a tag line and some color and changed the font. We hope you like it.

Spotlight on Molly Skeen

By Donna Gilbo and Eleanore Mickus

This month we're stepping into newsletter editor Molly Skeen's shoes and featuring her in our Spotlight section.

Molly is such an asset to our Friends of the Library group. She's a woman who has worn many hats -- board member, president, webmaster and volunteer at many of our book sales. Molly is currently our newsletter editor and webmaster, finding current topics to discuss and writing newsy stories about them. Most of the photographs in our newsletter, website, and brochure were taken by Molly too. She quietly and competently completes her responsibilities gathering information like a reporter and is excellent at keeping our membership and interested parties current.

She moved to Tualatin from the Bay Area with her husband eight years ago after retiring from a career as a corporate librarian. She and her husband Mike are interested in astronomy, sailing, and camping. Molly is an accomplished quilter and teaches quilting to women incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. She volunteers her time as webmaster for three other organizations in addition to the Friends.

We asked Molly what drew her to join Friends of the Library. "When I attended my first meeting of the Tualatin Friends group, I was struck by how friendly everyone was. I could see that they were not only commited to helping the library, but to having fun while they did it. This is a group where you can find meaningful work to do that fits with your personality and schedule," she said.
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