We hope you had a chance to see the Friends special Christmas Past exhibit in the library lobby display cabinet. It was compiled by Friends volunteer Kay Kendall in collaboration with the library staff and other Friends volunteers.
The project began in late 2015 when a copy of Daddy-Long-Legs by Jean Webster was donated to the library. Inscribed by a father to his daughter for Christmas 2016 the inscription is now 100 years old. To collect one book inscribed at Christmas each year of the century between 1916 and 2016 would be a nifty trick!
Word went out to Friends volunteers to watch for Christmas inscriptions; book by book over the following two years, the inscribed copies were set aside. Tualatin Library staff contributed many hours of time, expertise, and encouragement as the project developed. To date, approximately more than 60 books representing 45 years in the last century have found their way to the Christmas inscription collection.
The display featured many of the collection’s antiquarian and vintage books, as well as their inscriptions.
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