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Friends of the KnoxCounty Public Library500 W. Church Ave.Knoxville, TN 37902865.215.8775 Fax 865.215.8772 Offi cersClaire Serrell PresidentBill Crosland Past PresidentKay Hays President-ElectMartha Gill SecretaryMarye Rose TreasurerMyretta Black Library Director

DirectorsMeryl KeeganRobert KirkSuzanne LenhartAnabel LinoLeAnn LunaLillian MashburnDale PearsonJane RowRusha Sams

Executive DirectorAbby Wintker Burris

Library LiaisonMary Pom Claiborne

FOTL LiaisonMartha GillNewsletterPeter AndreaeJoyce York

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You helped us make so many great things happen in 2015!• Outstanding author events featuring Dom Flemons, the American

songster, and Steve Inskeep, NPR co-anchor and author• The 2015 Children’s Festival of Reading• Teen programs such as Teen Shakesfest and Teen Read Week• Reading incentives and programs for the 2015 Summer Library Club• Southern Exposure: The Great Smoky Mountain Film Festival held

during the East Tennessee History Fair• Book discussions at All Over the Page and Books Sandwiched In• James Agee’s “Knoxville: Summer 1915” Centennial at James

Agee Park • Support for Knox County’s Imagination Library

Be a Friend in 2016! Show your support for ongoing programs as well as new ones in our community by joining or renewing your Friends membership. Library lovers all over Knox County will thank you!

Why Join the Friends Family?When you renew your membership for 2016…

• You’ll be a supporter of one of Knox County’s longest-standing nonprofit, volunteer organizations.

• You’ll be part of an energetic family that advocates on behalf of the Knox County Public Library (KCPL) year-round.

• You’ll be eligible for great discounts: · 10% off at the East Tennessee History Center’s museum shop from Jan. to Nov.

and 15% off in Dec. · 20% off one entire purchase at Union Ave Books.

Benefits for you, support for KCPL—everyone wins!

DATES TO REMEMBER

NOVEMBER7 Burlington branch used

book sale9 All Over the Page book

discussion group: The Cove by Ron Rash, facili-tated by Brian Griffin

16 Friends Board meets18 Books Sandwiched In:

Jim Gray, co-founder and director, East Tennessee Permaculture Research Institute, leads a dis-cussion of Too Much Magic: Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation by James Howard Kunstler

19 & 21 Karns branch used book sale

Empty Stocking Fund book drive continues through Nov. 30 for book do-nations and Dec. 7 for monetary donations

DECEMBER1 #GivingTuesday4-5 Bearden branch book

sale14 All Over the Page book

discussion group: Mister Owita’s Guide to Gar-dening: How I Learned the Unexpected Joy of a Green Thumb and an Open Heart by Carol Wall

23 Empty Stocking Fund distribution day

JANUARY2 Burlington branch used

book sale11 All Over the Page book

discussion group: The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes facilitated by Bonny Naugher

25 Friends Board meets

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Imagination Library Book Bank Earns Interest of ReaderThe Bank for Books created by Friends President Claire Serrell enticed a

youngster to read the book that inspired her creation. Claire’s bank, shown here with Sequoyah Branch managers Jan Miller and Denise Crawhorn, features Ferdinand the bull, hero of Munro Leaf’s classic, sitting quietly in the shade of a cork tree. Claire crafted Ferdinand’s tree from wine-bottle corks and placed it in the Sequoyah Branch Library. After spending a long time looking through the book as he sat on the floor, a young boy checked it out to take home.

The Banks for Books campaign continues through November 30.

v Best of FriendsLibrary Calendar Remembers Past, Embraces Future

Want a glimpse into Knoxville’s past while planning your future? You need a Knoxville Remembered Calendar for 2016! With fascinating black-and-white photos straight from the Thomp-son Photograph Collec-tion housed in the Mc-Clung Historical Collec-tion of Lawson McGhee Library, this calendar can be your go-to planner for the coming year.

The 2016 Knoxville Remembered Calendar is available for $15 at Friends@Rothrock Used Book Shop, Union Ave Books, Mast General Store, Visit Knoxville, Räla, East Tennessee History Center, Disc Ex-change, Pratt’s Country Store, and Nothing Too Fancy. Buy for gifts, but don’t forget to buy one for yourself! You need this!

All proceeds from calendar sales benefit the Knox County Public Library Staff Association.

Scout Troop “Can Do” Attitude Embraces ESF CampaignMoments after the Friends Empty Stocking Fund book drive was posted on

Facebook, troop leader Heather Mekelberg saw it and presented the idea of a book collection to her Brownie troop in Kingston. The troop of seven and eight-year olds, who have been together since kindergarten and first grade, has several enthusiastic readers and they all readily agreed.

Friends provided the posters and sup-plies and each girl found a local business or church to be a book drop. “One of our goals” says Heather, “is to choose activ-ities that a girl has not done before and that will boost her self-confidence. Making the initial contact, explaining the project, and then periodically collecting the books are all new skills for these girls.”

Join these Brownies and others who are working to ensure that every child opens a new book this year. Drop off new or like-new children’s books at any Knox County Public Library location, make a donation online or send a check to Friends (with ESF Book Drive in memo line) at 500 W. Church Ave., Knoxville, TN 37902.

Friends Is Joining the #GivingTuesday Campaign!Now in its fourth year, #GivingTuesday is both a celebration of gen-

erosity and an opportunity for giving. Observed on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving and the shopping events Black Friday and Cyber Monday, #GivingTuesday focuses on charitable giving at a time when many people are considering their holiday and end-of-year giving.

#GivingTuesday uses social media to enlist the generosity of people in bringing about change in their communities. It provides a platform to en-courage the donation of time, resources and tal-ents to address local challenges and support local nonprofit organizations.

Why the hashtag “#”? The # symbol is used to organize messages on social media. Adding a # to a word or group of words creates a searchable link on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram. Well-designed hashtags such as #GivingTuesday make it possible to engage and share messages with larger audiences with common interests.

#GivingTuesday 2015 is December 1. To learn more about how you can participate in this day of giving back, visit our website.

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Best of Friends

Brenda AdairMargo & Alfred AkermanStephen & Anne AllenRiley & Pandy AndersonPeter Andreae & Suzanne

LenhartCathy AndrewJane & Pat ArmstrongCarol C. BaeskeNorma BedelleCharles BenzingerMolly BiscoeMary Sue & Larry BjorklundDiane BohannonBetty CatronClayton Family FoundationNancy CollierMike CollinsCharles & Gail McClain

ComeauxNorma Cox CookVictoria CreedDr. E. Katherine CrewsDiana CruzeAl & Liz CurryDAR-Andrew Bogle ChapterJeanne C. DavisJanna De VenteBobbi DeridderBob & Johanna DilworthTom Dunn & Cynthia

ThornburgJudith DuvallMartha Edington

Sharon EversJudi GastonJean & Hiram Rogers GaugerMartha & James E. GillJenny GloverChristine GriffinSue GrovesBrad & Joy GuilfordRoswitha HaasRachel HackerAshley HartmanTed & Carla HatfieldKay & Tom HaysMary HessDon HintonNancy & Dan HughJean IdellJudith JenningsChellie & Barry JonesHortense JonesMeryl Keegan & Greg WilsonEllen & George KernBob & Aravella KirkJanice LatusJoshua & Dalila LeekDr. Kelley LeiterJohn & Lillian T. MashburnRex & Zoller MaysharkJeanne MeadorMichael MerrittMr. Gerald & Dr. LaToya MylesBrenda NewmanGlyn & Lynda NewtonKay Newton

David L. & Carol A. NortsDale PearsonMargie PickensMary M. PittmanMr. & Mrs. Don B. PrestonJudith RattnerRick & Janice RaweWhitney Ray-DawsonJennie & Bert RitchieMarye K. RoseSusan SchottPaul & Claire SerrellPeter & Trudy SheaSuzanne SheaMarcia SilversteinDavid & Vim SilvusCynthia C. SpanglerDennis R. SpenceMary J. StarkeJohn & Nancy StewartSue & John StuhlSusan Arden BooksMartha & Carl O. ThomasLinda TownsendUnion Ave Books Sophia & Isabel VelezFrank & Julienne WeathersBetty WebbJulie WebbElnora, Erven, & Elandria

WilliamsHazel Zook

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Every effort has been made to make this list complete. If your name should have appeared on this list please accept our heartfelt apologies.

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Memorials and tributes are an essential part of sustaining Friends of the Knox County Public Library. A donation to Friends is a thoughtful way to honor someone whose life has been blessed by libraries, books and reading.

Your donation will touch countless lives in positive ways by increasing pub-lic literacy and school readiness, helping to improve technology skills and the competence of our workforce, and contributing to the quality of life in Knox County.

Fall 2015 Membership Issue

In memory of Anonymous by An Anonymous Friend

In memory of John W. Avera, III by Anne M. Avera by Charles Allen Avera by Margaret S. Hinton by Rife Hughey by Florence McNabb by John & Marti Tyler

In memory of Jim Blevins by USTER Technologies

In memory of Matthew Burris by Martha & James E. Gill

In memory of Mary Juanita Craig by Michael & Carol Holtzclaw

In memory of Whit Hodges by An Anonymous Friend

In memory of Barbara McGehee by Mike & Lori Murphree

In memory of Helen Seaton Peters Neas by Nancy Hansard by Ruth Ann Petersen

In memory of Marion Oliphant by Martha & James E. Gill

In memory of Elizabeth Shirley by Hayes & Joyce Hunter by Jennifer Rucker by Jim & Linda Williams

In memory of Gary Woody by An Anonymous Friend by Margaret Klein & Robin Barrow by Holly Peters & Sanford Gurian by Monday Book Group by UT Spirituality & Health Colloquy

Memorials and tributesJuly 2014-September 2015

In honor of Friends Executive Committee by Martha & James E. Gill

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Why I Am A Friend

“Over the years I have watched the Friends of the Knox County Library become an increasingly active organization, offering a wide range of enriching pro-grams for our community. I would like to play a part in raising awareness of the important work being done by our public library that strengthens our democratic ideals, enhances our children’s literacy, and creates an information rich environment for all our citizens. Getting involved with Friends is my avenue for mak-ing a contribution to this worthy endeavor.”

Jane S. Row

“Libraries are for me at the core of what it means to live in a civilized society. At the library a little boy and girl can change the trajectory of their lives by immersing themselves in that big helpful room of helpful people and in the glory that a book, a history, an interest can do for that trajectory. I would simply not be doing what I’m doing now if it wasn’t for that sturdy, dependable, and free service the public library provided me so I feel partly responsible for ensuring it’s there for others. Civilization doesn’t just happen—one has to not only create it but nourish it.”

Brian Pittman

Why are you a Friend? Friends would love to hear! Please share your story with us by emailing info@knoxfriends.org.