Submitted by Joan Huff

What’s New at the Library; Joan's Last Article

December 15, 2015 - This will be my last article reporting on the library news. It’s hard to believe that the first one was nearly 14 years ago. The best part of library work is, of course, the wonderful people you get to know. You would like to personally thank each and everyone for their support of the library and myself as director, but unfortunately that’s impossible. Having a good library is a community effort at its best. We’ve been fortunate at the Fannie Brown Booth with so many supporters over the years. My hope is that it will continue.

What’s New at the Library; Thank You to All for Successful Fall Book Sale

November 17, 2015 - The Friends of the Library had a very successful fall book sale. These members work very hard storing and organizing an enormous amount of donated books for six month prior to a sale. The weeks before the sale, they set up an attractive display of several thousand books. Without their efforts, our budget for new books would be greatly diminished. Other unsung heroes of this endeavor are the buyers who continue year after year to show up and buy lots of these books. This is community recycling at its best and most rewarding for the library.

What’s New at the Library

October 26, 2015 - The FOL Fall Book Sale starts tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. at the Fannie Brown Booth Library. This is one of two book sales conducted yearly by the Friends of the Library to raise funds for new library books. It is a place to find the very best book bargain in the area. In addition to first rate mystery, romance and general fiction novels, the sale offers bargains in videos, audio books, children’s books, craft books, western novels and interesting nonfiction books. The sale will conclude at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Oct. 31.

What’s New at the Library

October 12, 2015 - The Friends of the Library Fall Book Sale starts Tuesday, Oct. 27th at 10:00 a.m. This is a large sale with lots of book bargains. The selection includes like new mysteries, romances, westerns and a variety of cookbooks, craft books, and children’s books. Looking for a great bargain and way to help our library, stop by the sale and find some great books for the cold winter days.

Library Receives Gift of $1,000


October 6, 2015 - The Libri Foundation of Eugene, Oregon has awarded a very special non-matching $1,000 Books for Children grant to the Fannie Brown Booth Library. The Libri Foundation was established in 1989 for the sole purpose of helping rural libraries acquire new, quality, hardcover children's books they could not otherwise afford to buy. Since October 1990, the Foundation has donated over $6.5 million worth of new children's books to more than 3,300 libraries in all 50 states.

What’s New at the Library

September 29, 2015 - The Friends of the Library members are sponsoring a booth at the Poultry Festival to promote the library. Members will be selling tickets for the quilt raffle. As always, the quilt is a stunner by Charlotte Szabo. In addition to tickets, members are asking for a few minutes of your time to complete a survey designed to get information about how the library can be improved. This survey is important for determining what the community wants and needs from the library.

What’s New at the Library

September 11, 2015 - This is the first week of the library’s new hours. We are hoping that being open from 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. on Saturday will better accommodate our library users’ needs. In the past we were open at 9 a.m. on Saturdays and very few came into the library until 11, an hour before closing. The library would be full of users at noon with us having to announce that we were closing. Hopefully, we will also better accommodate our older children who get to “sleep in” on Saturday mornings.

Library Receives $5,000 Grant

September 11, 2015 - The Tocker Foundation located in Austin, Texas notified the Fannie Brown Booth Library on August 31st that the library’s grant had been funded. The Tocker Foundation promotes Texas public libraries in communities of 12,000 or less. Grant applications are reviewed by a permanent committee of librarians appointed by the Texas Library Association. This grant brings the cumulative grant support by the Tocker Foundation to the Fannie Brown Booth Library to $19,198.

What’s New at the Library

June 23, 2015 - The wildlife education program with live animals was a big hit with both groups of children attending the Lions Club’s summer reading program at the library last Thursday. It was hard to tell which animal the children loved petting the most. One contender was the baby kangaroo in a diaper but the small girls who held the large snake and passed it around was my pick. Sandra, of course, left the room when the tarantula was paraded. I was holding my breath when the ferret was brought out to view. I could visualize it getting loose in the library.

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