Coconut Grove Grapevine: Become a Friend of the Library this weekend

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Friday, February 13, 2009

Become a Friend of the Library this weekend

Friends of the Library is having their third annual membership book sale at the Grove Arts Festival this weekend (look for their booth). Books start at just $1.00 and if you join Friends of the Library, you can take up to 10 books free.

They are dedicated to furthering library initiatives through advocacy, volunteerism and fundraising to support the Miami-Dade Public Library System’s programs and initiatives in all 47 branch libraries and four bookmobiles.

When you join for a nominal annual fee, you are helping support: The Summer Reading Program, open to every child in Miami-Dade County through every branch in the library system; The Art of Storytelling, an annual international event: Children’s Bookmark Contest National Library Month programs...Special art exhibitions; Teen Read Week; Connections, which provides books-by-mail to the homebound; Project LEAD, Literacy for Every Adult in Dade; Black History Month, Hispanic Heritage Month, Women’s History Month & Kwanza programs; the Vasari Project (digital replacement for archiving of conventional photography and art); Early literacy initiatives; Funding for Native American Dance program and the Jazz Roots Series.

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2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Thanks Grapevine!! There is a lot going on in the Grove this weekend, and we encourage everyone to do as much as possible, including stopping by our booth, which is conveniently located near the stage at Peacock Park.

There are lots of great books- cook books, diet books, travel, advice, fiction, non-fiction, classics, plenty of best selling authors such as Patricia Cornwall, Mary Higgins Clarke,Irving, Grisham, etc. Also, children's books, books for Teens. Books in Spanish...etc.; February 14, 2009 9:28 AM
JenPB said...: Thanks for the reminder about JOINING! We donate books and magazines quite often, but hadn't joined yet.; February 16, 2009 4:51 AM

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