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About the Friends:
The Friends of the Bloomfield Public Libraries run two
book sales each year, one in the fall and one in the
spring. All proceeds from the sale go to help support
the unbudgeted needs of both Prosser Public Library and
the Wintonbury Branch. The Friends also host an annual
Spring Luncheon which features as keynote speaker a
prominent member of the Hartford area community.
Current President: Judy Poliner,
242-0198
Please call Judy if you are interested in becoming a
member of the Friends.
Monthly Meetings: The Friends hold
meetings in Prosser's Community Room on the first
Thursday of the month at 2:00 P.M., excluding July and
August. All members are
invited.
Book Sale Information:
The dates for the
Friends' 2008
Spring & Summer Book
Sales at Prosser Public Library are:
Friends' Spring Book Sale
Thursday, May 15, 10-7:30 P.M.
Friday, May 16, 10-5:30 P.M.
Saturday, May 17, 10-2:00 P.M.
The book sale will be held in Prosser Public Library's
Community Room.
Hundreds of books will be on sale, arranged according to
category, including both fiction and non-fiction,
large-print books, reference books, cookbooks,
art books and children's books! We will also be selling
videos, CDs, cassettes, DVDs and books-on-tape.
Book Sale Volunteers: Those people who
are interested in volunteering for the Friends' book
sales are welcome to contact Julie Neaverson, at 242-2235.
Book Donations: The Friends of the
Bloomfield Public Libraries accepts book donations for
the group's annual Spring and Fall Book Sales, and other
book donation projects. Clean books in good condition
can be dropped off at the Children's Room Circulation
Desk at Prosser Public Library. We welcome hardcover and
paperback recent
fiction (please, nothing over 10 years old unless it's a
classic), art books, biographies, how-to
books, cookbooks, books on gardening and crafts,
large-print books and up-to-date self-help
books. We also appreciate books about sports, health,
politics, business and entertainment. We are interested in all
children's books, particularly those about the major holidays. We accept videos, DVDs,
cassettes, and music CDs and books on tape.
Please, no records, atlases, old
textbooks, encyclopedias or Readers' Digest condensed books,
professional books, computer manuals, or magazines,
other than National Geographic. For
additional information about book donations, please
contact Julie Neaverson, at 242-2235.
Friends' Summer
Paperback Book Sale:
The Friends will host a Paperback
Book Sale on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 from noon
to 7:00 P.M. in Prosser Public Library's Community Room.
Additionally, throughout the year, carts with books for
sale at 50¢ each are located in the lower lever foyer of
the Prosser Library and at the Wintonbury Branch.
Special Events:
Spring Luncheon:
The Friends' Spring Luncheon will take place on
Wednesday, April 16, 2008 at 12noon at Seabury.
The cost is $20.00. This year's featured speaker is poet
Marilyn Johnston. Please contact Jeanne Hunciker
at 242-6329 for reservations.
Poet Marilyn Johnston will read from her recent
book of poetry and answer questions about her life of
writing and publishing. Marilyn Johnston was born and
raised in Hartford in a lineage of Connecticut Irish
farmers on her mother's side and Illinois Finnish
immigrants on her father's. She holds an MA in English
from Hartford's Trinity College. She left a long-time
career in insurance communications to put her own
writing center stage. In the past decade, her work has
received five Pushcart Prize nomination. Numerous
publishing credits include Worcester Review,
Atlanta Review, South Carolina Review, and
Poet Lore. Her first chapbook, Against
Disappearance, was published as Finalist for the
2001 Redgreene Press Poetry Prize. Her first full-length
book will be published in 2008 by Antrim House Books.
Commitments to poetry and to community led her to work
in the Bloomfield Public Libraries, directing a poetry
reading series for Connecticut poets at the Wintonbury
Branch. Johnston lives and writes on an old farm at the
base of beautiful Talcott Mountain, with her husband,
Ray.
Museum Trip:
This year's museum trip will be on
Saturday May 31, 2008 to the Bruce Museum in
Greenwich, the Barnum Museum in Bridgeport and lunch at
Ralph & Rich Restaurant in Bridgeport. The cost is
$45.00. Please contact Linda Dranoff at 243-9068
for reservations.
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