Spring/Summer 2012 - Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library

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BETWEEN FRIENDS
SPRING /SUMMER NEWSLETTER 2012
Save the Date
www.friendsofsopaslibrary.org
564 members
Plans Are Underway To Celebrate
The 30th Anniversary of Bookstore
by Dorothy Cohen— Chair Bookstore Steering Committee
April 19: Glen Duncan Route 66 Author
Night
April 30: Turn Off the
TV Week begins
May 5: Eclectic Music
Festival, Community
Room, 5 performances, 5 p.m.—9 p.m.
May 13: Restoration
Concerts’ end-ofseason performance:
New Hollywood
String Quartet
May 17: Baseball
Author Night, Paul
Dickson & Daryl
Grigsby
June 11: Summer
Reading Program
sign-ups begin
July 31: Bookstore’s
30th Anniversary
None of the details have been
worked out yet but now is a good
time to circle your calendar for the
30th anniversary celebration of the
Friends Bookstore that will feature a
live auction of some large antique
posters.
It will be held on Tuesday evening
July 31---the actual opening date,
which was a hot July day in 1982--probably beginning at 7 p.m. We’ll
be more precise in the mid-July
newsletter.
The posters were donated to the
bookstore long ago. We had them
framed and for many years they hung
in the second floor hallways adjacent
to the bookstore. Then, for a fresher
decorative look, they were crated and
put in storage about six years ago.
But the bookstore is operated to
make money to support the library
and those posters aren’t generating
any revenue in storage, so what better time to sell them?
After we’ve uncrated the posters
and measured them, we’ll be able to
tell you a bit more about them.
A Warm Welcome for Volunteers
We’re happy to greet new
staffers Teresa Shaw, Susan ShaverKane and Rene Stratford. Also, new
Silent Auction coordinator Margaret Byrne, whose assistant Elizabeth
Krauss, has been working in the
bookstore. It is a pleasure to report
the return of former staffer Betty
Wang to team with staffer Shireen
Chang in pricing Asian language
books for us. Asian language books
are included in the Bookstore and on
our main floor 25¢ shelves. We always are in need of volunteers who
are interested in working in the
bookstore on a regular basis or being
available to substitute for ailing or
vacationing staffers. Applications
may be obtained from the library’s
administrative office on the second
floor, accessible by elevator or stairs.
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FINAL CONCERT OF SEASON SET FOR MAY 13
Restoration Concert season ticket holders are looking forward to a Mother’s Day treat in the form of a special end-ofseason performance by our Quartet-in-Residence, the New Hollywood String Quartet.
Each season, two concerts are presented by the quartet.
On May 13, the music of Mozart and Schubert will be featured,
performed by the highly acclaimed Robert Cani and Rafael Rishik,
violins, Robert Brophy, viola and Andrew Shulman, cello.
The program will include W.A. Mozart’s String Quartet in D
major (K.575) and Franz Schubert’s String Quartet No. 14 (D.810)
in D minor. As always, refreshments will be provided by The
Friends.
Doors will open at 3:45 for the 4:00 pm program and tickets
will be available at the door if space allows. Attendees will have
an opportunity to sign up for the 2012-2013 season. Or call concert committee co-chair Kay Rosser at 626-799-6333 if you have
questions.
RESTORATION CONCERTS
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Kathy Folsom - Co-Chair
Kay Rosser - Co-Chair
David Batten
New Season ticket
price:
8 concerts for $88.
BUY YOURS NOW !
At the door when space
Shireen Chang
Kate Douvan
Ann Erler
Janet Ervin
permits is $18
Connie Flanders
for individual concerts.
John Flanders
Gloria Weinberg
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Technology Endowment Fund Campaign (TEF)
The Friends of the Library will launch its 2012 Technology Endowment Fund Campaign (TEF) in May.
Five years ago, the Friends of the Library established TEF to ensure that funding is available to meet
our library’s ever changing technological needs. Interest from this growing endowment fund’s principal continues to provide support for our most important and popular technological needs including
mangolanguages.com, an on-line language learning resource, tutor.com, the library’s outstanding live
homework help program and the soon-to-be-available OverDrive, which will bring our patrons on-line
access to eBooks, audiobooks and much more.
The South Pasadena Public Library is determined to continue to invest in technology in an effort to
provide services that support our citizens. Please look for your TEF Campaign letter in the mail soon
and give generously! Donations to TEF can also be made on-line at www.friendsofsopaslibrary.org.
Ann Messana – Endowments and Memorials
Eclectic Music Festival May 5th
Community Room to Showcase 5 Free Musical Performances
6:15 PM AlmaNova
Flutist Jessica Pierce and
guitarist Almer Imamovic
5 PM LA Clarinet Choir
Founded in 2005, the LACC has become one of
North America’s premier clarinet ensembles.
7 PM Pianist David Batt aka
Yrsan Daro. Blues.
7:45 p.m. Rick Shea and
his folk/country band
9 PM Headliner Billy Childs w/
son, guitarist Aaron Childs. Jazz
pianist/composer
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Get Your Kicks at GLEN DUNCAN
ROUTE 66 Author Night
Glen Duncan, writer of the book “Route 66 in California,”
will make an Author Night presentation in the Community
Room on Thursday, April 19th at 7:00 p.m. The free public
event for all ages will also feature the screening of an original
episode of the Route 66 hit TV series.
Mr. Duncan will show Route 66 images from his book and
relate a few of the more interesting stories from its California
history. Glen will also describe his personal odyssey, which
has seen him regularly driving and living along Route 66. Glen
now lives a few blocks from Route 66 in South Pasadena.
More info:www.friendsofsopaslibrary.org/news.htm
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Baseball Doubleheader with Paul
Dickson and Daryl Grigsby
An Author Night Doubleheader: Thursday, May 17 at
7:00 p.m. in the Community Room. The event will focus on
the achievements of Blacks in Major League Baseball. An
opening set of tunes will be performed by Bluez Express.
Daryl Grigsby’s “Celebrating Ourselves” is a labor of love
and focuses on the tradition of baseball in the AfricanAmerican community.
Paul Dickson’s latest nonfiction work, “Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick” is his 55th. Bill Veeck, was an innovator who regularly shook up the world of baseball in particular by signing the first Black player in the American League
and the first Black Manager in the Majors. Veeck was a champion of civil rights and a political activist. Veeck’s 1948 Cleveland Indians became World Series Champs and as late as
1950 the team was the only one in the American League with
Black players. More info:
www.friendsofsopaslibrary.org/news.htm
$1000 Donation
Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts
In December 2011, The Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts made a $1,000 donation to the
Friends of the Library to improve the Library collection. Half of the amount has been used to purchase 2011 Grammy®-winning and nominated
CDs, as well as CDs by Billy Childs, a resident of
South Pasadena and a three-time Grammy®winning jazz pianist and three more by Kelley’s
band, Destroy All Monsters. The other half of the
donation will be used to buy new art books which
will be ordered soon for the Library. New CD’s
include:
Monty Alexander, Harlem-Kingston Express Live
Marsha Ambrosius, Late Nights & Early Mornings
Gregg Allman, Low Country Blues
Jeff Beck, Rock ‘N’ Roll Party for Les Paul
Bela Fleck & the Flecktones, Rocket Science
Billy Childs, Jazz Chamber Music Volume 1 & 2
Tony Bennett, Duets II
Bon Iver, (Self-Titled)
Brian Setzer Orchestra
Terri Lyne Carrington, Mosaic
Steven Curtis Chapman, Re:Creation
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass, Live in Concert
Civil Wars, Barton Hollow
Harry Connick, Jr., In Concert on Broadway
Ry Cooder, Pull Up Some Dust and Sit Down
Death Cab for Cutie, Codes & Keys
Destroy All Monsters, (Self Titled)
Destroy All Monsters, Silver Wedding Anniversary
Destroy All Monsters, Live In Tokyo
Steve Earle, I’ll Never Get Out Of This World Alive
Foster the People, Torches
Emmylou Harris, Hard Bargain
Levon Helm, Ramble at the Ryman
Booker T. Jones, Road from Memphis
Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Songs from a Zulu Farm
Jim Lauderdale, Reason & Rhyme
Seth MacFarlane, Music Is Better Than Words
Ziggy Marley, Wild & Free
Bruno Mars, Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Pat Metheny, What’s It All About
Rave On Buddy Sharon Isbin & Friends—Guitar Passions
Blake Shelton, Red River Blue
George Strait, Here for a Good Time
Barbara Streisand, What Matters Most
Trinity College Choir--Beyond All Mortal Dreams
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Memorial Donations
Friends of the South Pasadena Public Library: Memorial Funds
Ann Messana – Chair, Endowments and Memorials
The South Pasadena Public Library is honored to acknowledge donations received in
memory of family and friends.
In Memory of Austin A. Ichinose
Craig K. Ichinose and Family
Austin A. Ichinose
Craig Ichinose and his family have provided the library with an
extremely generous donation designated for use toward the continued development of the library’s music CD collection and related
resources. Austin Ichinose joined the library staff in 2007 and
regularly recommended his favorite CDs to fellow staff members. In his
memory and in honor of his love of music, the library will use half of the Ichinose donation to purchase CDs in 2012 and the remaining half in 2013. A
memorial plate acknowledging Austin and the Ichinose family donation will
be affixed to each CD that is purchased for the library collection. We are
grateful to the Ichinose family for the
opportunity to improve and expand the library’s music CD collection and to
honor our friend and colleague.
Please Join Friends of the Library
Thank you to the families, individuals, seniors
Teen Programs, and Live Homework Help. With-
and students who have joined or renewed their
out your help these programs would not be possi-
membership for the 2012 campaign. And, many
ble. If you have not renewed your membership or
thanks to the people who have donated above
joined Friends of the Library, please do so now.
the membership level. Unfortunately the mem-
Membership envelopes are at the library by the
bership dollars are below what they were last
reference desk and upstairs outside the book-
year at this time. Membership dollars to Friends
store.
of the Library are the backbone for all the special
Thank you,
programs offered at the library such as: the Sum-
Diane Larson—Membership Chair
mer Reading Program, Author Night, Book Clubs,
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CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES
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April 10 – June 1, 2012
Family Storytimes (all ages)
Tuesdays, 7:15 p.m. - 7:45 p.m.
Preschool Storytimes (ages 3 - 5 years)
Thursdays, 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Toddler Storytimes (ages 1 - 2 years)
Fridays, 10:30 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
Toddler Storytimes (ages 2 - 3 years)
Fridays, 11:00 a.m. - 11:20 a.m.
Children's Librarians read age-appropriate stories and share fingerplays, songs, flannelboard
BARKS AND BOOKS
May 14, June 11, 2012
2nd Mondays 3:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Children’s Room Ages 5 – 10 years
Children are invited to visit the Library to read animal-related short stories of their choice to dogs from
the Pasadena Humane Society Companion Animal Program. Not only does this make reading more fun, it
also builds a child's confidence in reading aloud. Also, the available books will help children realize that
animals experience a range of emotions similar to their own and that they have basic needs too. This will,
in turn, encourage them to appreciate the importance of treating all animals with respect and kindness.
Sign-ups are required. Call (626) 403-7358 to register.
GRANDPARENTS
&
BOOKS
Mondays & Thursdays
3:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m.
April 9 - May 31, 2012
Children’s Room All ages
Volunteer Grandma Carole shares her enthusiasm for
books by reading aloud to children of all ages in one-onone or small group settings.
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Turn Off the TV Week
April 30—May 6, 2012
Did you know that the average American child spends more time
each year watching television (1,023 hours) than being in school (900
hours)?
The South Pasadena Unified School District elementary schools and the
South Pasadena Public Library challenge children to turn off the TV for
one week and discover many other activities to share with their families. Children who do not attend the SPUSD elementary schools can pick
up their “Turn Off the TV Chart” from Children’s Services in mid-April.
Tween Program
Through the Booking Glass
April 13, April 20, April 27, 2012
3:30 PM — 4:30 PM
Library Community Room
Ages 10– 15
Ever wonder how an author grabs your interest
in a book?
Teachers and educators will meet in groups with
students, ages 10-15, to discuss how to become a
better reader. Students will read during the session
a pre-selected portion of a book or story. They will
then discuss ways the writer used and what students like or don't like about the selection. Mentors will focus on both being a more critical reader
and also how to be a better writer, both for fun and
for school.
Interested students should contact Children’s
Librarian Maida Wong at 626-403-7358 or e-mail
her at mwong@ci.south-pasadena.ca.us to register.
June 11 – August 4, 2012
Sign-ups for this popular program will begin
June 11th. Special weekly programs will be on
Wednesdays, beginning June 20th at 2:00 p.m.
with the Puppets and Players Little Theatre’s
presentation of Thumbelina on the Fairview
Street side of the Library Park. The Friends of
the South Pasadena Public Library, Inc. and
other community-spirited businesses and individuals sponsor the Summer Reading Program.
For more information about Library activities,
please call (626) 403-7358 or visit the Library to
pick up a calendar of events. The Library is located
at 1100 Oxley Street and on the web at
www.cityofsouthpasadena.us/library
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NEWSLETTER OF THE FRIENDS OF THE
SOUTH PASADENA PUBLIC LIBRARY
1100 Oxley Street
South Pasadena, CA 91030
Current Resident or
2012 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Kristen Dube’
Vice President/Chief Financial Officer: Linda Long
Vice President/Financial Officer/Endowments:
Diana McGrail
Recording Secretary: Ellen Torres
Restoration Concerts/Financial Officer: Leanne O’Neill
Membership Chair: Diane Larson
Endowments/Memorials: Ann Messana
Bulk Mail/Printed Materials Chair: Rose Barron
Hospitality Co-Chair: Alice Fong
Hospitality Co-Chair: Jane Schirmeister
Hospitality Co-Chair: Shireen Chang
Newsletter Chair: Sharon Cockroft
Program Chair: Scott Van Sant
Bookstore Steering Committee Chair: Dorothy M. Cohen
LIBRARY HOURS:
Monday–Wednesday 11:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Thursday and Friday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
http://www.friendsofsopaslibrary.com
APPOINTED CHAIRS
Publicity–Yvonne Voisin
Computer Records–Barbara Sato
Assistant Finance Officer–Kristen Dube’
EX-OFFICIO BOARD MEMBERS
Restoration Concert Com. Chairpersons: Kay Rosser,
Kathy Folsom
Library Trustees Representative: Ann Penn
Web Master: Roby Lawrence
City Librarian - Steve Fjeldsted