Book Sale Committee Meeting

The Book Sale Committee will meet on Tuesday, August 11, at 7 p.m.

Executive Board Meetings Scheduled

The Friends Executive Board will meet on the following dates this fall:

September 15

October 13

November 10

All meetings will start at 6:30 and take place at the library

Festival Chairperson

The Fall Festival Chairman is Jack Ratcliffe from the Rotary Club. Email is Jack.Ratcliffe@allentate.com. The next meeting is at the library on Thursday, June 18th at 7pm.

The Friends group has been asked to take charge of the children's area. If you are interested in helping in this capacity, please come to the meeting or email Jack Ratcliffe. We'd like to have a really strong show of support from our new Friends group.

Book Sale Committee Meeting

From Becky Zagor, Chair of the Book Sale Committee

Please join me Tuesday, June 9th at 7PM at the library for our first Used Book Sale Committee organizational meeting!

I am very excited about folks who have expressed an interest in helping in any way with this project. We will be talking about a variety of tasks, matching them to your interests and time available, & planning to make a splashing fundraiser to introduce the community to our library services and the ongoing book sale within the library.

If you cannot make the meeting, but are interested in helping, please respond via email.
With appreciation for the service you offer, Becky Zagor Chairperson & book enthusiast

Festival Volunteers Needed

Are you interested in helping with the Fall Festival as part of the Friends of the Library group? Some people at our meeting on May 5th specifically signed up to help with that project and others of you may simply be willing to help on that day, which is September 26th.

We have been approached by the Rotary and asked if we would consider taking charge of the Children's Area. The Friends have not yet given them a commitment as to what we think we could offer to do. As the Library will receive a significant contribution from the Rotary as a result of the festival, we would like to take as strong a role as possible in planning and volunteering to work at the festival.

Is anyone who would have a strong interest in chairing that effort or, perhaps, sharing that responsibility with another person? It would involve several meetings from now through September - you would be able to judge that once we get more information.

The other opportunity is to volunteer to help out as a Friends member with the area we have committed to on the day of the festival.

Please send an email to us how you feel you can contribute to this effort. We would like to hear from as many of you as possible by June 15th so we can go forward with our planning.

Thank you so much! FYI: The Executive Board will be meeting on June 16th at 6:30 pm at the Del Webb Library.

Summer Reading Program Kicks Off June 6

Starting next week, Del Webb Library's Summer Reading Program will be underway! Although the kids can start reading and recording their minutes starting June 1st, our real kick-off will be Saturday, June 6th. We will be having a hometown carnival from 10am to 12pm where the kids can sign up for the reading program, play games and visit the library. We are still in need of some volunteers for that day: it would most likely involve running a small game such as a beanbag toss, handing out candy and chatting with the families who come. If you are interested and available (volunteers would need to arrive by 9:30am), please give the library a call at 548-9260. We appreciate your help!

Rotary Holds First Festival Planning Meeting

Tomorrow night, May 28, at the Indian Land Library, the Indian Land Rotary will hold its' first planning meeting for the Fall into Fun Festival. The meeting is at 7 p.m. in the large meeting room at the library.

The festival is scheduled for September 26 at the Indian Land Middle School. Many volunteers will be needed to make this event a success. Come to the meeting to see where you might be of service.

Indian Land Friends Group Starts Up

Well, we now have a Friends group for our Indian Land Library! In fact, I may change the name of this blog to Indian Land Friends. Stay tuned.

We began with a meeting in March (maybe?) with everyone who indicated an interest in being in a friends group dedicated to our new library. We had 32 at that meeting, which also included a couple of high school students. From there, we formed a Steering Committee, which began meeting every other week to hammer out by-laws and get a plan for starting up.

Finally on May 19 we elected a slate of officers and approved our bylaws! The next step will be forming our own 501(c)3, so that we can properly handle our funds.

I'll list the officers here later. (When I find the list.) In the meantime, we have decided to form three committees: A Book Sale group, A Friends Shop Group, and a One Book/One Community Group. These three committees will start working on their projects. The Book Sale Group will meet again in a couple of weeks. (I'll obtain the date for you) They will study the logistics and possible time frame for our first sale.

The Friends Shop Group has already been doing a bit of work on the side, organizing books as they come in and putting them on the shelves. The shop itself has already brought in more than $700 dollars in revenue! The new group will work on forming hours, considering decoration, and perhaps some other items that can be sold. For the most part, the money they earn will go right back into the collection of the library.

The One Book/One Community Group will be one that will require much up-front planning. We would like to see if we can get a book selected that everyone in the community will read. Logistics will be the big thing.

If you are interested in joining the Friends, or in helping with these groups, please send us an email. We'll put you in touch with the right folks!

Library Hours

Monday: 9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Tuesday: 9:00 am - 8:00 pm
Wednesday: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Thursday: 9:00 am - 6:00 pm
Friday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday: 9:00 am - 1:00 pm