No. 05-15                                                                                                                                 APRIL 29, 2005      

• SHARON HOUSWORTH, Administration

               
As I receive changes for the 2005 System Directory, I will notify everyone through the Weekly Bulletin. Be sure to correct your directory. Hopefully everyone will be kept up to date through out the year.

Changes for POP - Hazard Library
Remove trustees: Rosemary Slagel and Guy Sutton

Add trustees:  Monica Hastings
                        1660 Route 34B
                        King Ferry NY 13081
                        315-364-5318

                        Margaret A. Dunn
                        3572 Route 34
                        Scipio Center NY 13147
                        315-364-8870

 

• MARISA IACOBUCCI, Adult Services Coordinator

LIBRARIES MATTER
Libraries Matter is the theme of a new fund-raising campaign spearheaded by our regional Alliance Library System. Beginning on April 10, the first day of National Library Week, Alpha Park Library will offer Libraries Matter bracelets for sale at $3 each. Half of the profit from each sale will stay with APL, and the other half will reimburse the Alliance System, our promoter and supplier. We hope to use the proceeds to help spruce up the Youth Services Department. (Notice some of the walls, the nicks and chips in the paint, the broken coat hooks ... )  If you go to www.librariesmatter.com and click on the Causes link, you can see all the libraries that are using Libraries Matter bracelets to raise money AND awareness of library needs. The list grows daily - and not all the libraries are from Illinois. Our regional system is leading the way in promoting and supporting libraries of all sizes and types!
 
from John Richmond, in The Library Times, Alpha Park (IL) Library, March 2005

 

• CAROL HENDRIX, Administration

The deadline for the summer issue of the FLLS News is May 11. Please email your articles to me or send typed copy via delivery to my attention.  Thanks.

 

• ANNETTE BIRDSALL, Youth Services Coordinator
  Summer Updates
  Prizes and invoices will be delivered in May as soon as they are received & counted.

Order forms for selecting books paid for by the summer reading mini grant are in the delivery.

Great Books for Teens
June 23 is the date to get the YA collection development support you seek at the System Meeting featuring Kathleen Odean. Hope to see you there!

Other News
The State Education Department has sent FLLS informational packets about their program Operation Child Care.  This program is for National Guard and Reserve members to enable them to obtain free childcare when they are home on leave.  If you have any families that would benefit from this program, please contact me for coupon books. For more information, contact Flor Phillips, Outreach and Implementation Manager, Child Care Aware, 1319 F Street NW, Suite 50, Washington, D.C. 20004-1106; 800/424-2246; infor@ChildCareAware.org; or www.ChildCareAware.org.

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• Directors’ Advisory Council (DAC) members: 

If you have any questions or concerns regarding FLLS library service, you are welcome to contact a DAC member from the list below. 

Beverly Dann, Waverly Free Library
Gail Park, Southworth Library Association, Dryden
Janet Steiner, TCPL, Ithaca
Judy Barkee, Ulysses Philomathic Library, Trumansburg
Kay Zaharis, Cortland Free Library
Lois Maki, Newfield Public Library
Mary Frank, Peck Memorial Library, Marathon
Sally Otis, Hazard Library, Poplar Ridge
Stephen Erskine, Seymour Library, Auburn
Susan Robey, Groton Public Library