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Footnotes 4/05 RING 200 SP 5 A newsletter for the Friends of the Multnomah County Library Mark your Honoring our volunteers and board members calendars: 2005 Annual Meeting will feature Whitney Otto Spring Book By Greg Simon Sale is April 30 John Riley he 2005 Annual Meeting of the Friends of Maya Angelou, Ann and May 1 Tthe Multnomah County Library is sched- Bancroft, and Winona uled for Wednesday, May 25th, from 5:30 to 7 Ryder. In the mean- FOL Annual p.m. in the US Bank Meeting Room at Central time, Ms. Otto had Meeting is Library. Hors d’oeuvres, wine and other bever- published Now You Wednesday, ages will be served at this event, which is free See Her (Villard, for FOL members. 1994), followed by May 25th from Please join the FOL Board in welcoming sev- The Passion Dream 5:30 to 7 pm. eral incoming Board Members, saying goodbye Book (Harper Collins, to a long-time Board Member and honoring 1997). Library Store our volunteers. Look for your invitation in the Her latest book, A Author Whitney Otto is the guest speaker Sale starts mail the first week in May. Collection of Beauties The evening’s featured speaker will be novelist at the Height of Their at 4 pm. Whitney Otto. Ms. Otto lives in Northeast Port- Popularity (Random House, 2002), is an el- land with her husband and son. She has been a egantly constructed novel about a group of volunteer in her son’s public school libraries, and twenty-year-olds living in San Francisco in the has taught writing classes at Grant High School 1980s, haphazardly thrown together by their and Portland State University. patronage of a cool (but fictional) North Beach She is the author of the very popular How to hangout called the Youki Singe Tea Room. Make an American Quilt (Villard Books, 1991), Ms. Otto has prefaced each chapter with a which was made into a movie in 1995 starring woodblock poster representing seventeenth century courtesans from Japan’s legendary Friends’ Library Store Update Floating World. There, it is said, patrons could pursue their fill of music, sex, food, poetry, the- As you know the Board made the decision to ater, and fashion. Centuries later, the young close the store for several months. Future denizens of San Francisco find themselves on plans for the store are not fully developed similar crusades as the novelist explores the yet, but the Board wants to invite you to a consequences of their awkward, unexpected, large INVENTORY BLOWOUT SALE, the and complex co-mingling. night of our Annual Meeting. “Your twenties are exhilarating love years,” Wednesday, May 25th Ms. Otto told interviewer Ellen Kanner, “even 4:00pm – 5:30 p.m. before the Annual as they can also be the heartbreak years. You Meeting and 7:00 pm – 7:45 pm may not have wisdom, but love is huge.” after the Annual Meeting Local readers may find it gently ironic that Everything in the store will be Ms. Otto, who grew up in Pasadena, Califor- 40% off (or more), so stop in and shop! nia, moved to Oregon and then wrote a book We appreciate your support. about San Francisco. As someone who visited Continue on page 2 Spring 2005 1 From the President Annual Meeting continued that city many times be- Dear Friends, tween 1968 and 1990, I It’s been an eventful few months for us. As you know, in can testify that she is mid-February we decided that we needed to close the wonderful at reproduc- Friends’ Store at Central Library for a few months. It ing the restless nature of was a painful decision but we are certain it was the right Bay Area life of that era one. We felt the need to really take a step back and evalu- with both humor and ate the store’s business model, its merchandise, and its priorities. The Board critical affection. of Directors is working very hard to get that job done, although it’s turning “Your twenties are a out to be more time-consuming than we expected. We are considering a num- time to discover who you are, what ber of different ideas and if you have any suggestions (about the store or you want, what you don’t want...” Ms. anything else we do), we’d love to hear them. Don’t miss our inventory blow- Otto told another interviewer.“I don’t out sale the night of the Annual Meeting! think anything in the book was directly One great thing about the Friends is that our activities truly lifted from my own life—I just remem- are driven by our members, especially those who take the ber what all that felt like.” time to volunteer on committees, in the store, in the office, in the book sorting room, and at the book sales. I want to Want to help the Friends mention a few who give of themselves with exceptional en- ergy. I have to start with Carol Clifton, who has used her help the Library? special expertise to increase the Friends’ return on the romance We welcome The Board is planning to welcome be- fiction donated to the book sales. Lou Burton, Rosmary Wegert Malcolm Grant. tween 6–8 new board members this and Donald Stocks are longtime book sale stalwarts. Jo Burch He’s a proud spring. The Friends of the Library are has worked tirelessly in the Friends’ Store for years, and her recipient of a MCL card and passionate about the continuing grasp of the store’s business issues rivals that of any paid the son of our health of our library system and rely employee. Tom and Willa Holmes and Ralph Wright have book room on a strong and active board for our served in the Store with equal distinction and in fact, Willa manager Anne McFall and successes. Here are the areas of expe- goes back to Opening Night as a Store volunteer! In the Darrell Grant. rience and skill sets we are particu- Friends’ office, Sara has been ably and loyally assisted for larly in need of: years by Alan Locklear, Nina Cook, and Sheila Finch-Tepper (Sheila is the ◆ legal one who painstakingly hand-writes all of our names on our membership cards ◆ finance and accounting once every year). These are just a few representative names; there are dozens ◆ retailing of others. You are all heroes to me. ◆ marketing and public relations I hope to see all of you on April 30–May 1 at the Spring Book Sale and again ◆ technology/computers/web retailing on May 25th at the Annual Meeting. Thank you for being such good Friends. ◆ advocacy Stephanie Vardavas, President If you want to share your passion for libraries and would like to con- Friends of Multnomah County Library tribute to a dynamic, community- The Friends of Multnomah County Library is a non-profit community organization based board, please contact us at dedicated to supporting the Multnomah County Library. We accomplish this principally by promoting public involvement in the Library and by raising money through member- [email protected]. We will ship fees, the Friends’ Library Store, and the sale of used-books. email you more information and a Board of Directors: board application. Come join us! Stephanie Vardavas, President; Amy Fuller, Vice-President Debby Simone, Secretary; Tami Parr, Treasurer Bryan Aptekar, Ginny Benware, Janet Christ, Diane Gutman, Nancy Lee, Tami Parr, Ann Pearson, Carol Ramsay, Carla Rathbun, Ron Savitt, Greg Simon, Kevin Thomas Staff: Sara Lindgren, Anne McFall Library Liaison: Penny Hummel Footnotes Volume 15, No. 1 Footnotes is published four times a year for members of The Friends of Multnomah County Library. Send news and comments to Footnotes at FOL, 522 SW 5th Avenue, Suite 1103, Portland, OR 97204 or call the Friends at 503.224.9176, fax at 503.223-4386 or e-mail [email protected] or visit www.friends-library.org. Editor: Bryan Aptekar Design: Jeanne E. Galick Printed on recycled paper 2 Friends of the Library www.friends-library.org 4th Annual Spring Used Book Sale in East Multnomah County is fast approaching! By Janet Christ ooklovers will have twice as much to Blove at this year’s Friends of the Library spring book sale in East Multnomah County: The formerly one-day annual sale will run for two weekend days, April 30 and May 1. It also will be at a new and bigger location — in the Gresham Village Volunteer Iris Kimbark helps with book shopping center, 2340 SE Burnside Road sorting at Powell Boulevard. Hours will be 9 AM to 6 PM Saturday and 10 AM to 4 PM What is life like in the Sunday. No members-only sale will be Friends’ book room? held. “We’ve been trying to expand this sale for a while,” said Friends’ board member By Angelita Surmon, Book room assistant and former book sale chairwoman Amy o quote Forest Gump, it’s “like a Fuller, “and are real happy to find this space that would allow us to bring Tbox of chocolates. You never three times as many books and hold the sale for an extra day.” This year know what you’re gonna get.” It’s an will mark the fourth annual spring sale of donated books. Donations of experience full of curiosities and sur- used and new books continue to grow, and the bigger fall Portland sale prises. Volunteers open boxes to find will be held as usual in October. Proceeds from the sales support everything from the latest Tom Multnomah County Library programs (see article on page 4) and the pur- Clancy thriller to a William Faulkner chase of books and other materials.
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