Friends of the Jones Library System News

We’re pleased to announce a new service called Wowbrary which enables you to see what new books, audiobooks, music CDs, and DVDs have been added to our combined Amherst collections each week. You may sign up to receive a weekly e-mail or view the list anytime at Jones Library.org by clicking on “Books Etc” and then selecting “New Books.” Read about our new items in categories ranging from Arts to Cooking and from Travel to DVDs, and be among the first to place holds on new items.

Dear wonderful Friends, We will be having our annual board meeting on Monday, January 6th at 8:00 a.m.  Please come join us in the Woodbury Room at the Jones Library to hear what we've been up to and what we're going to be up to.  Maybe you could even share with us ideas you have for what the Friends can do...? And, of course, you can find out if there really is a secret Friends of the Board password that will open all the doors of Amherst to the select few who know it. Come into the library through the back door by the gardens.  We'll see you there! Love, the Friends

Please join us TONIGHT, Thursday, December 19; 7-8:30pm; in the Amherst Room of the Jones Library as John Clayton, University of Massachusetts Amherst emeritus, leads a discussion of "The Retrospective" by Abraham B. Yehoshua. For a review of the book, click here . To see the list of upcoming discussion dates/titles which will be a part of this scholar-led series, please go here . To watch a video of a cat riding on a Roomba, go here .

The Jones Library has named the most elegant (and elevated) room in its building for long-time Friends of the Jones Library board members Ellen and George Goodwin.   Below are some pictures from the dedication ceremony. Tina Swift opening the ceremonies. Katie George with fond memories of Ellen and George.  Olé and bravo! Katie and Emily Goodwin, one of Ellen and George's daughters. George receiving the children's books donated to the library in honor of the Goodwins. Trustee President Austin Sarat presenting the key to the library to George Goodwin.

On Valley Gives Day YOU, you wonderful people, you gave us $700!  We can do quite a lot with that.  We're very grateful to you for your generosity.  Thank you, thank you. MWAH! XOXO!

If you're looking for a gift for that Special Someone this holiday season, look no further than the Jones Library!  That's right!  The Friends of the Jones Library is offering handy totes, beautiful stickers, warm mugs for your hot cocoa, and, of course the FOTJL magnet.  If that's  not a conversation starter, we don't know what is! The most expensive item is $15, the least expensive is $5.  You can see everything on display by the circulation desk.  And right here in the photo.  You can pay in the main office.  Easy as pie. And for that person who has everything?  They don't have a Friends tote yet! Come on by, shop for the holidays, return your books, and go home and enjoy a nice hot beverage in your very own Friends of the Jones Library mug. Ho ho ho.

The Jones Library's Lego Club meets TOMORROW, Saturday, December 14, at 3 pm in the Woodbury Room. For more information, please call the Children's Room at 413-259-3091 or email Theresa Atteridge at atteridget@joneslibrary.org. Be there or be a little plastic brick!