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Puzzle Day 2009
Posted by: Emily on: February 9, 2009
Phew! The Third Annual Silicon Valley Puzzle Day is over and done and was — by all reports — a tremendous success! Saturday was packed full of workshops and a Puzzle Party fundraiser for our new Library Foundation and then Sunday we had sudoku and crossword tournaments (plus bonus rounds of killer sudoku and cryptic [...]
Puzzle Day Pre-Event this Saturday – Come watch Wordplay with us!
Posted by: Emily on: January 22, 2009
Those of you who know me recognize that in the weeks leading up to our annual Silicon Valley Puzzle Day event (this year on Feb 7 – 8 ) I tend to get a bit obsessed with crosswords and sudoku and the posts and links here get very puzzle-dominated. Well, we’re definitely in full gear [...]
A Collection of Library Foundation Web Sites and Mission Statements
Posted by: Emily on: January 1, 2009
We’re starting a new library foundation so I’m starting to collect some inspiration from other library foundation web sites before I build ours… Here are a few: Big Cities (hey, we can dream) San Jose Library Foundation http://www.sjplf.org/ “The San José Public Library Foundation provides advocacy, financial support and innovative leadership to transform San José’s [...]
Internet Librarian 2008
Posted by: Emily on: October 19, 2008
Heading off this morning to attend Internet Librarian, one of my favorite conferences and really the best one for the work I do. My colleague Karen and I will be speaking on Tuesday at a session on “Revitalizing Content in the Enterprise” about how our team “promotes research and library resources to audiences around the [...]
Morgan Hill Library Birthday Party
Posted by: Emily on: July 19, 2008
Morgan Hill Library Birthday Party Poster Contest Winners Originally uploaded by chocolate spoon Today we celebrated the first birthday of the Morgan Hill Library with a birthday party sponsored by the Friends. My role was to run the poster contest, where we encouraged kids to draw a picture illustrating what the library meant to them. [...]
Nice letter!
Posted by: Emily on: April 11, 2008
Hurray to Lisa for the nice letter in the MH Times about joining the Friends for National Library Week!! Celebrate National Library Week by joining Friends of the MH Library Dear Editor, Next week Americans will celebrate National Library Week and the invaluable contributions that libraries, librarians and library volunteers make to our community every day. [...]
Happy Birthday Westport Library
Posted by: Emily on: April 7, 2008
The Westport Library turned 100 years old with a big celebration yesterday (chaired by Mom). There are some nice photos on Westport Now including one of 99 year old man cutting the ribbon (he’ll be 100 soon) and the grandchildren of the woman who cut the ribbon 100 years ago (when she was 6). Looks [...]
MH Times Coverage of Opening
Posted by: Emily on: July 24, 2007
The MH Times came through with a nice front page article of the library’s opening (though unfortunately didn’t print the photo we had submitted of the costume contest winners). They also printed a very friendly editorial about the opening, which concluded with: What’s also impressive about the building of this new library is the teamwork [...]
Library Grand Opening
Posted by: Emily on: July 22, 2007
Yesterday’s grand opening of the new Morgan Hill Library was simply amazing. We expected around 1500 people but estimates for actual attendance are around 4000!! It was a beautiful day (hot, but not terrible) and pretty much everything went exactly as planned. It was really amazing to see the place packed with so many people! [...]
New Library Preview Party
Posted by: Emily on: July 13, 2007
Tonight was the preview party for the new library (which, if I haven’t mentioned it enough, will open next Saturday, July 21). It was a lovely event with about 100 people, a string quartet and very nice food. The place looks amazing — all the art is installed and the displays are up and everyone [...]
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