October 2012

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October 2012 Newsletter
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Upcoming Dates
  

Friends Annual Meeting and Celebration

 

October 17 

 

Re-Scheduled 2012 Children's Book Sale

 

November 2-3
AnnualMeetingPlease Join Us!
Friends Annual Meeting and Celebration
October 17 - 5:30 pm | Clayton Library Center

Featuring Houston Public Library Director Dr. Rhea Brown Lawson and author of Faith Bass Darling's Last Garage Sale, Lynda Rutledge.

 

  Rutledge

 

Please make sure your membership is up to date so that you can join us at our celebration!

 

 

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CBS2012 Children's Book Sale
New Date Announced!

When?
Friday, November 2 11 AM - 6 PM
Saturday, November 3 10 AM - 5 PM
$10 Bag Sale Saturday from 3 PM - 5 PM
(Bags will be provided)

  

Where?
Resurrection Metropolitan Community Church
2025 West 11th St., Houston, TX 77008
At the corner of T.C. Jester and West 11th 

 

What?
Fiction, Non-Fiction Books, Parenting and Education Resources, Easy Books and Board Books, Graphic Novels, Foreign Language Books, Encyclopedias and other hidden treasures

 

Books $1 and $2

 

Cash, Checks, MasterCard and Visa are accepted

 

Educations, bring your tax-exempt ID

 

Proceeds benefit the Houston Public Library

FREE and OPEN to the Public


 

Volunteers are needed! Please bring your sorority, fraternity or corporate groups to help out.

 

To volunteer please fill out this online form.

BondVote, Houston!

$28 million for the Houston Public Library!

 

City of Houston Bonds on the November Ballot

 

Mayor Annise Parker and the Houston City Council have placed a package of five bonds totaling $410 million on the November 6, 2012 election ballot.

The package includes Proposition D - $28 million for Houston Public Library. This proposition will pay to rebuild and improve our community. Specifically it will provide for the following HPL improvements:

-Renovation of Freed-Montrose Library
-Replacement of the Moody Library
-Replacement of the Meyer Library
-Renovation of Robinson-Westchase  

 

Click here for more information

FarmersMarketFriends at the City Hall Farmer's Market
  

FarmersMarketThe Friends held their first Farmer's Market Book Sale in front of City Hall on September 26. It was a huge success, taking in $165 in just a couple of hours and attracting a steady flow of customers. Many of them said they hoped we'd be back again. We intend to do just that, with plans to sell books at the Farmer's Market each Wednesday until December 12.

 

 

If you have never volunteered at a Friends' book sale, and especially if you've told yourself you'd like to volunteer at our book sale some time, this is a great place to start. It is a lot of fun with pleasant customers and great people watching, including spotting the mayor and other city notables on their lunch hour, as well as a chance to visit other booths to buy food and locally produced items.

 

Books are priced at $1 for paperbacks, $2 for children's books, and $3 for hardbacks. Tax is included in the price so making change is easy!

 

At last week's sale we had several brand new volunteers and we're hoping for more new recruits. We have three shifts of 1-1/2 hours each, starting at 10:30 am.

 

To sign up as a volunteer for the City Hall Farmer's Market Book Sale, please fill out the information here.

GulfCoastReads 2012 Gulf Coast Reads
 
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Join schools, local libraries, community groups, friends and neighbors as we come together during the month of October to read and discuss Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, the poignant novel by acclaimed author Jonathan Safran Foer.

The Houston Public Library will host several events on Saturday, October 27 at Central Library. For more information on Gulf Coast Reads events, please visit www.gulfcoastreads.org



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