Friends of the Jones Library System News

Sign up to get the latest library news delivered to your email address! Library Director Sharon Sharry shares news about our busy libraries and ways they can make your life easier and more fun. All you have to do is sign up on the Library website at www.joneslibrary.org OR fill out a short form on your next visit to the library. Here's a recent example: ************************************************************* "The Jones Library now has a scanner available for free public use. The scanner is located in the Reference Room. In addition, we continue to offer inexpensive printing, copying, and faxing. Costs are as follows: * Black & white printing is $0.10 per page. * Color printing is $0.50 per page. * Black & white photocopying is $0.10 per page. * Domestic faxing requires a credit card and is $1.50 for the first page and $1.00 for each additional page. We hope to see you soon at The Jones! Sharon *********************************************************...

The Jones Library System needs MORE Friends! Now is the perfect time to join or renew your membership in the Friends of the Jones Library System and support Amherst's three Town Libraries. Friends donations benefit the entire community and make possible the following: new materials and books ($18,000); diverse workshops and programs such as Chess Club, art series, Community Sing, Sing With Your Baby ($3800); jubilat/Jones poetry series, bringing nationally recognized poets to Amherst ($2150); and various museum passes ($1685). We hosted a retirement party for the community to celebrate the work of outgoing Jones Library Director Bonnie Isman. Members of the Friends also participated in the search this summer for a new Director of the Jones Library. And the Friends supplied hospitality with edible treats for the Emily Dickinson Museum’s “Emily Dickinson Big Read” series held at the Jones. The Friends have been working hard to honor the gift of Richard and Nathalie Wood...

On a Fall Cleaning Spree? Don't forget the Friends! You can help make the Friends' Basket Auction fundraiser a success by "re-gifting." We especially need donations of large (laundry sized wicker baskets, decorative metallic baskets, and/or reed baskets) donations of 'new' or 'look like new' books tissue paper donations (in colors) would be appreciated Sign up now to volunteer your time in January and February. Are you someone willing to catalog the baskets, type up descriptions and print out descriptions once the baskets are made? We also need someone good at "pricing the baskets to sell" - a retail savvy Friend who puts a value on baskets once they are 'ready to go.' Contact Angela Mills at pavs4all@yahoo.com to be part of the fun.

2011 Friends Annual Meeting November 1 -- Meet Sharon Sharry! Join the Friends of the Jones Library on Tuesday, November 1 at 7 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room to welcome our new Library Director, Sharon Sharry. A brief Friends business meeting will be held at 6:30 p.m. before the reception. Everyone is welcome.

In bad times as in good, in a democracy the public library is a great educator of the public, open and free to all, regardless of wealth or age or any qualification other than human curiosity to learn. To nourish our libraries is to nourish the Commonwealth. In light of that, the Board of the Friends of the Jones Library System in Amherst MA strongly supports the restoration of funding to regional libraries in the state budget that has been cut severely in Governor Patrick's original budget proposal.

jubilat and the historic Jones Library present A jubilat/Jones Poetry Reading Featuring: Jericho Brown and CAConrad 3:00 PM Sunday, February 21st Trustees Room, Jones Library 43 Amity Street, Amherst The reading will be followed by a Q & A session with the poets. At 2 PM, Dara Wier, Ben Kopel, and Zach Savich will host a poetry swap in the Trustees Room. Bring a poem--your own or someone else's--to share and discuss. All events are free and open to the public. Jericho Brown worked as speechwriter for the Mayor of New Orleans before receiving his PhD in Creative Writing and Literature from the University of Houston. He also holds an MFA from the University of New Orleans and a BA from Dillard University. The recipient of the Whiting Writers Award, the Bunting Fellowship from the Radcliffe Institute at Harvard University, and two travel fellowships to the Krakow Poetry Seminar in Poland, Brown teaches creative writing as an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Sa...

The wonderful Valentine Baskets, full of books and chocolate and great gifts for everyone, will be in the Jones Library Atrium from February 3rd to February 11th. Please come and browse the baskets and place a bid on your favorite ones! All proceeds go to the library book fund, so you can treat yourself (or someone you love) and help the library at the same time!