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Heres to Our Heroes! Reading Saves the Day!

Inside this issue:

Presidents note 2

FOML Honored by City 2

Poetry at the Library 3

Taylor Memorial Fund 3

The Little Shop Update 4

A Friend of the Friends Moves 5

What Are You Reading? 6

Quick Starts 6

FOML Membership Form 7

Modesto

Library1500 I Street

Modesto CA 95354

558-7800

Monday - Thursday

10 a.m.9 p.m.

Friday

Closed

Saturday

10 a.m.5 p.m.

Sunday

Closed

Our heroes include nearly a dozenlocal agencies trying to improvethe lives of children and teens inour community. The Friends aresponsoring a Scholastic Book FairNovember 17, 18 and 20 at theModesto Library. Besides its roleas a fund raiser for the Friends, thebook fair gives shoppers thechance to be heroes to local chil-

dren, many of whom live in homeswith nothing to read. The bookfair will have Wish Lists of booksfor children in places such as theCrisis Centers Crickets House,Redwood Family Center, Havenand Hutton House. If your serviceorganization, book club or coffeeklatch wants to help, the donationsdo double duty. Scholastic matchesour local purchases through One

for Books with a donation of up toone million books to three nationalnonprofit organizations dedicatedto helping kids and families inneed: Kids in Distressed Situa-tions, Inc., the Kids In Need Foun-dation and the Marine Toys forTots Foundation.

Be a Hero in your own family andgive the gift of reading. Take apeek at the featured book at http://

bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/foml. Shop at the bookfair and stock up on new, high-quality, low-cost books at the bookfair and you will be ready forbirthdays, holidays, vacation daysand rainy days. More books in thehands of more kids thats ourgoal.

Clifford is Coming!

Thats right! The Big Red Dog willbe at the book fair at 1:30 p.m. onSaturday, November 20. Bringyour camera down to the audito-rium if you want a snap of him withyour favorite youngster.

We need volunteers to help at theScholastic Book Fair on Nov. 17,18 and 20. Shifts are flexible andfun. Contact Anne Britton at 996-1531.

A Note of Thanks to FOML

Thank you for your generous dona-tion of $6,000 to the Modesto Li-brary's book budget. We will put$2,300 towards childrens materialsand the remainder for adult materi-als. Your continued support is ap-

preciated, especially now, duringthese challenging economic times.The Modesto Library would not besuch a valuable community re-source without your assistance.

Sincerely,Vanessa CzopekCounty Librarian

Friends of the Modesto Library Newsletter Fall 2010

Fr iends Bul le t in


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Friends Bulletin

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This newsletter is published

quarterly by the Friends of the

Modesto Library. Copies may be

requested by emailing

[email protected].

The Friends of the Modesto Library

is a nonprofit organization that

promotes goodwill and support by

the community for the Modesto

Library, stimulates public

awareness of Modesto Library

needs, and seeks out sources of

cultural and educational programs

for the Modesto Library.

Mail:

FOML

P.O. Box 4565

Modesto CA [email protected]

Online:

http://www.ModestoLibraryFriends.org

Board of Directors 2010-2011

Officers

President: Stella Beratlis

Vice-Pres: Joan Patterson

Secretary: Anne Britton

Treasurer: Jonaca Driscoll

Directors:

Membership: Ellen Dambrosio

Book Sale: Anne Britton

Activities: Barbara Quinn

Publicity: vacant

Hospitality: vacant

Newsletter: Clare Noonan, Anne

Britton and Gene Malone

Special thanks to Dittos of Modesto

(www.dittosprint.com)

The Friends of the Modesto Library is

a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit in the

state of California. All contributions are

tax-deductible as allowed by law.

ID#: 77-0038333

Presidents Note

Dear Library Supporters,

Weve been busy with many Friends activities these past few months. Octo-ber 17-23 is National Friends of the Library Week, and the City of Modestomade a special proclamation to acknowledge this. To celebrate, we had adisplay inside the Modesto Library to showcase Friends activities andevents and to solicit new memberships from library patrons. Thanks to DorisKurtz, Marie Bairey, Anne Britton, Jonaca Driscoll, and Ellen Dambrosiofor staffing the table throughout the week.

Next, we received a grant from Vintage Faire Mall to receive all the coins intheir fountains for the 2010-2011 year. The first batch of coins has beenwashed in a cement mixer, rinsed, dried, and taken in buckets to the coin

sorting and counting machine at the bank. Thanks to Ellen Dambrosio,Jonaca, Bill Driscoll and James and Demi Paras for successfully processingthat first six buckets of coins! In the end, we deposited more than $1,000worth of coins (not counting an assortment of tokens, beads, and grit). Nextbatch is due to arrive within the next few weekswere getting our glovesready!

Thinking about holiday gifts? Dont forget we have a Scholastic Book Fairset for mid-November in the Modesto Library auditorium. Also, considerThe Little Shop inside the Modesto Library for your gift shopping needs.Youll find a variety of interesting and unique items for people of all ages,

including journals, bookmarks, notebooks, books by local authors, jewelry,home dcor and more! The shop is open Tuesday through Thursday, andSaturday from 10 a.m. 1 p.m. See you at the library.

Stella Beratlis

FOML Honored by City of Modesto

At its Oct. 12 meeting, FOML was honored by the

Modesto City Council. The council has pro-claimed the week of Oct. 17 - 23 as Friends of theLibrary Week.

Friends President Stella Beratlis accepted theproclamation of behalf of FOML.


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POETRY AT THE LIBRARYGet ready for poetry at the library! Starting Saturday

Dec. 4, the Poets of the San Joaquin, in partnership

with the Friends of the Modesto Library and the

Stanislaus County Library, will present quarterly

poetry readings at the Modesto Library.

The readings, which are put on by the Poets of the San

Joaquin (PSJ), mark each new issue of its quarterly

journal, Song of the San Joaquin. Each reading willfeature the poets whose work is in that issue and will

include an open mic at the end. The event is open to

the public. Refreshments will be served and copies of

Song of the San Joaquin will be sold.

The first Song reading is Saturday, Dec. 4 at 1 p.m. in

the downstairs auditorium at the Modesto Library;

subsequent readings are tentatively scheduled for Feb.

12, May 14, Aug. 13 and Nov. 12.

In addition, mark your calendars for these PSJ events

that also will take place at the Modesto Library in

partnership with Friends of the Modesto Library and

the Stanislaus County Library: The Modesto Poets

Laureate Reading on April 16, and The Aileen Jaffa

Young Poets Contest on May 21.

For more information, contact Cleo Griffith, Chair,

Editorial Board, Song of the San Joaquin:

[email protected].

USED BOOK SALE IN MAY

FOML will hold a used book sale in May on the first

Saturday of the farmers market on the portico of the

Modesto library. To volunteer, or donate used fiction

and nonfiction (no textbooks), e-mail Clare Noonan at

[email protected] or call 522-5054.

Events at Modesto Library

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26 YEARS OF DOING GOOD:

PETI TAYLOR MEMORIAL FUND

Kids and teens lounging in the area set aside for

them near the childrens department just know

they like the vibe -- bar stools gathered around

high, gray-topped tables and comfy, low-to-the-

ground chairs. They dont know that the money

that bought the furnishings came from censorship

in a roundabout way.

A memorial fund in the name of Peti Taylor,

founder and first president of what was then called

Friends of the Stanislaus County Free Library

now Friends of the Modesto Library -- paid to

furnish the teen hangout. After her death in

September 1983, Taylors friends and family

raised money for a fund that would provide annual

events during Library Week: mimes, skits, essay

contests, story-telling, musical entertainment. Thishas continued for 26 years. But now the fund is

about tapped out. So, administrators spent the last

$1,500 on the teen area hangout and the spring

2011 event.

Taylor started the Friends in the mid-1970s,

according to group records, because of the threat

of censorship of books offered by the library.

Joan Patterson, who is on the board of theStanislaus County Library Foundation, was friends

with Peti, short for Petika, when they were

students at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y.

Coincidentally, the two women found themselves

years later living in Modesto.

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Patterson didnt move to the area until 1981, but said with a laugh that

she knew Taylor got on her really high horse when there wereworries about censorship at the library.

Taylors friend Sylvia Evens talks in a letter about how Taylor and

others worked to bring the Friends group to life:

These are the things we did, but the atmosphere in which it all

happened was pure Peti, and it is this very atmosphere warm,

informal, noncompetitive, death on stuffed shirts and parliamentarians

that makes being a Friend of the Library one of lifes joys.

Fittingly, those terms also describe the teen hangout paid for by Peti

Taylors memorial fund.

The Little Shop and FOML Need Volunteers

The Friend of the Modesto Library and The Little Shop are 100 percent

volunteer run projects. The Little Shop is open Tuesdays through

Thursdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

We need to staff the following positions:

General manager for The Little Shop

Bookkeeper for The Little Shop

Volunteers for The Little Shop

Scrapbooker for FOML

Historian for FOML

Photographer for FOML

Please contact [email protected] for additional

information.

Volunteers are needed to help at the Scholastic Book Fair on November

17, 18 and 20. Shifts are flexible and fun. Contact Anne Britton at 996

-1531.

The Little Shop

Where:

In the Modesto Library near thetutoring office.

When:

Tuesday, Wednesday and Thurs-day from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Saturday 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Phone:

573-3142

PETI TAYLOR MEMORIAL FUND (continued)


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A FRIEND OF THE FRIENDS MOVES

Charles Teval, the Stanislaus County Library manager who is the liaison with Friends of theModesto Library, is taking a new position at the library and will be working out of Ceres.

Its hard to say goodbye to this man whose generous nature is coupled with a calm demeanor.Charles was the go-to guy as the Friends worked to get The Little Shop going a year ago. Heunlocked the library early one May morning so volunteers could move the books for the book sale.

And, even he would admit that he makes a mean Abe Lincoln, as illustrated during a June eventhonoring our 16th president. It seems Charles will do just about anything if it helps the library.

And yet, he owes his library career to a suggestion.

Charles was thinking about what to do with his history degree from the University of Washingtonwhen a friend urged him to get a masters degree in library science.

It sure beat the years it would take to fashion a career in history. So, thats what he did, leading to afirst job in Stockton as head of what used to be the Southeast branch. In December 1999, he took ajob in Champaign, Ill., a natural for the native of Galesburg, Ill. Love brought him back to the WestCoast and in January 2001 he started working at the Modesto library on the reference desk.

Now, just short of 10 years later, hes heading to Ceres to manage operations at all branches butModesto.

Charles speaks warmly of the staff, volunteers and Friends with whom hes worked over the years.He points out the many ways Friends of the Library groups help: fund raising, performing outreachthat keeps libraries in the public eye and political actions to spread the word about library issues.

He says he sees libraries increasingly becoming a community focal point, more of a place forpeople to gather. Thats obvious when one sees the parents and kids at storytime, residentsgathered at book club or the healthy crowds that turn out at special events such as those connectedwith Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times.

Despite the growth in popularity of e-readers and audio books, or the constant drumming of thedeath knell for publishing, Charles thinks books will be around for a long time. Theres a certainamount of attraction to the physical book, he says.

And, so the Friends say goodbye to Charles with thanks for all hes done. But keep your eyespeeled. Although hell be in Ceres, Charles says he wont be a stranger to the Modesto library.There could be sightings, he says, blue eyes twinkling.

And the Winner Is..

Saziya Latifs name was drawn from

among the Modesto book review en-

tries in the Summer Reading for

Adults program Water Your Mind:

Read! Reference Librarian Vicki

Salinas joined Friends Secretary

Anne Britton in presenting Ms. Latif

with a gift certificate from The Little

Shop in the Modesto Library.

Become a fan of the Friends

of the Modesto Library onFacebookgo to http://

facebook.com/modestofol

and click Become a Fan.


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