Click on the links below for articles of interest.
Friends Membership Drive
CATS Play Benefit Performance
Help the Friends When You Shop at SPD
Friends Book Discussion Group 2012 Schedule
Save the Date – Gold Rush Book Fair
Free Online Ebook Program For Young Children
LibraryToGo: Downloadable eBooks and Audio Books
Donate Your Car to Help the Friends
Friend the Friends
Branch and Satellite Briefs
Please encourage your friends and family to visit your local library branch during the month of January to pick up a
membership envelope. We encourage all members to rejoin and have provided a membership envelope in the newsletter for your convenience.
If you are a life member, we encourage you to update your information and to add or update email addresses in order to
receive notices about events and your newsletter online if you choose.
Help us make a big impact for the Library System this January by renewing your membership and gaining support from your friends
and families.
Thank you for your continued support!
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The Community Asian Theatre of the Sierra (CATS) will produce The Teahouse of the August Moon by John Patrick, directed
by Diane Fetterly, from April 12 to May 5, 2012, at the Nevada Theatre. This hit Broadway production won many awards,
including the Pulitzer Prize, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best American Play of the Year and the
Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award in 1953. It was made into a hit movie starring Marlon Brando and Glenn Ford in 1956.
The Friday, April 20, 2012, 8:00 p.m., performance will benefit the Friends of the Nevada County Libraries. We are very pleased
to continue this partnership with CATS to raise funds for the libraries.
Tickets for the benefit night only will be available next year at the Western Nevada County Library Branches and the Friends of
the Library monthly book sale at the Doris Foley Library. Tickets are $23 advance and $28 at the door for general admission a
nd $15 advance and at the door for students.
For more information or questions regarding the benefit night only, contact the Friends at 530/265-1407 or
friends@friendsofthenevadacountylibraries.org.
For more information on general ticket sales, please contact CATS at (530) 265-2990 or
e-mail info@catsweb.org. CATS’ website is
www.catsweb.org.
For more information about this event, please contact the Helling Library at 265-1407.
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The Friends of the Nevada County Libraries have enrolled in SPD’s eScrip
program. Sign up for a Community Card at SPD and designate the Friends as your
group. Or if you already have a card, go to www.escrip.com, click on
Member/Supporter tab and follow the instructions to register your current card
with the Friends.
When you shop at SPD and use the Community card you can earn 3% of your purchase
for the Friends. This is an easy way to help our Libraries.
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The Group meets on the last Wednesday of the month at 10:30 am – 12:30 pm in Helling Library Community Room.
| January 25 | Cutting For Stone by Abraham Verghese |
| February 29 | Out Stealing Horses by Per Petterson |
| March 28 | Eden’s Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott
and her Father by John Matteson |
| April 25 | Saint Maybe by Anne Tyler |
| May 30 | Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh |
| June 27 | The Swan Thieves by Elizabeth Kostova |
| July 25 | Tess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy |
| August 29 | Shanghai Girls by Lisa See |
| September 26 | Home by Marilynne Robinson |
| October 31 | Fatal Journey: The Final Expedition of
Henry Hudson by Pete C. Mancall |
The Book Discussion Group is looking for more members. If you like reading, this might be the group for you. They are
also looking for a volunteer to help the coordinator identify reading books held by the Libraries.
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We would like to extend a very large thank you to everyone who participated in making The Friends of the Nevada County
Libraries benefit show on Friday, October 14 a great success. Proceeds from the show will help support Friends programs.
We particularly want to express our appreciation to Peter Mason and Sierra Stages, as well as Gretchen Bond and the Miners Foundry.
They were the ones who made possible the success of this FOL benefit performance of The 25th Anniversary of the Putnam County Spelling Bee. Because of their generosity, the proceeds from this evening of Tony Award-winning musical comedy, we will further be able to help the libraries with a variety of library programs and needs.
We also would also like to thank everyone who came out to support this benefit. We hope you enjoyed a fun evening of theatre. You
made this benefit performance a wonderful success. We also would like to thank our volunteers who always seem to step up to help our
libraries. We could not do what we do without you!
We would like to thank The Union for their promotion of this event.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered his or her services to make this evening a success. You make possible the work the Friends of
the Nevada County Libraries do to support our libraries.
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The 12th annual Gold Rush Book Fair will be held on Saturday May 19, 2012, from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm at the
Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley.
Dealers from all over the United States will offer a wide variety of books in all subjects. There are very
expensive, rare and collectible volumes as well as reasonably priced “good reads”.
PBA Galleries will again be offering verbal appraisals for books, manuscripts, photographs, ephemera and
related items.
September 2011
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New e-reading technology being made available by the California State Library gives young children an
exciting new way to experience books and learn to love reading. Library patrons across the state now have
free access – at home or at their local libraries – to BookFlix, an online e-reading program from Scholastic
that combines classic fictional video storybooks with similarly themed nonfiction ebooks to make reading
exciting for children in grades Pre-K-3.
BookFlix is now available for free at The Nevada County Library website:
www.mynevadacounty.com/library
and through library websites across the state.
A “read-along” option that provides word-by-word highlighting so children can follow along as the fiction
video is narrated and the nonfiction ebook is read aloud. Narrated text and definitions of key vocabulary
words to support beginning and reluctant readers, as well as English Language Learners; Educational games
and activities that encourage children to show what they have learned and to reinforce early reading skills
like fluency, vocabulary development and reading comprehension; Safe, age-appropriate web links to encourage
children to further explore topics that pique their interest.
This service is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the
Library Services and Technology Act, administered by the California State Librarian.
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Your donated vehicle will help fund books and other materials for the County Library. System. It’s easy and
convenient – just a phone call away. You will be given a tax receipt. The car need not be running or have a
current smog certificate.
Call 877-411-DONATE (3662) to arrange a free pick up.
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Are you on Facebook? So are the Friends of the Nevada County Libraries. Check us out next time you are being social.
We write about upcoming events and things that are Library related in our community. Hope to see you online!
April 2011
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In coordination with twenty-one other public libraries in Northern California, the Nevada County Library now
provides eBooks and audio books through LibraryToGo, a service from OverDrive that supplies digital media to
libraries across the nation. This pilot project is designed to introduce downloadable audio books and eBooks
to patrons and to gather information on the interest and feasibility of providing expanded digital media.
To access OverDrive media files you need:
- A valid library card.
- Access to the Internet.
- The free software for the device or computer on which you wish to use your OverDrive items.
- A valid email address so you can be notified when your titles are available for download.
For more information, go to http://www.mynevadacounty.com/library or take a guided tour at
http://www.overdrive.com/Solutions/Libraries/tour/MenuWelcome.html
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