FRIENDS OF THE WEST POINT LIBRARY COMING EVENTS

Mark your Calendars!

The FOWPL has been busy planning events for 2009. Here are the events thus far:

Poetry Night COFFEE HOUSE – April 30th in the West Point Library's meeting room. This will be the grand finale for the Pamunkey Regional Library’s Poetry Contest. All poets will be able to show off their talents in coffee house style with good coffee, and great company.

Book Club – The 2nd book discussion will be May 20th in the West Point Library meeting room @ 7:00 pm. The selected book will be Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. This book was chosen to coincide with the Pamunkey Regional Library's BIG READ. Please contact West Point Library(804-843-3244) for more information.

Herb Basket Sale – Just in time for Mothers Day; these 4” pots are from our very own Bloomers Fresh Cut Flowers.
6 pots per basket for $15.00.

Orders taken until May 4th. Pick-up date is May 6th.

The FOWPL totes are !!!!

Check them out at the
West Point Library

Don't miss you chance to own an original!

Local Authors Book Fair – May 17,

2:00 - 4:00 pm in the West Point Library.

The event will showcase our local authors. There will be opportunities to own a signed copy of your favorite and hear selected authors speak. There will also be prizes and refreshments

Don’t miss your chance to be part of the FOWPL
Keep your West Point Library working for you!!
The Friends meet the 2nd Thursday of every month unless otherwise notified

The Man in the Picture

Remember The Picture of Dorian Gray? Reading the above mentioned book brings it to mind. It involves a picture and there are scary aspects to it, but that's where the similarities stop.

It will immediately get your attention. A young man visits his retired professor. While there, the professor tells a tale that has burdened him for ages. He tells a story of mystery, horror and fantasy; that is wrapped around a painting that hangs in the professors rooms. I won't tell you more except to say the ending is very Edgar Allan Poe like.

Read The Man in the Picture for yourself and enjoy a "different" type of ghost story.

Poetry Contest!!!

Coming in March

The 7th Annual Pamunkey Regional Library

Poetry Contest

will begin

March 2, 2009!

Categories : Kindergarten through Adult

Pick your entry form up at your local PRL Branch.

All entries due by

March 28, 2009!

A Coffee House Poetry Night will be held in

April !

Winners Announced & Prizes Awarded

(time to be announced)

West Point Library's March RA project......

RA is in full swing. We've covered Graphic Novels as well as Gentle reads. This month it is our privilege to read any era in History. I've chosen Mary Lincoln's Dressmaker: Elizabeth Keckley's Remarkable Rise from Slave to White House Confidante by Becky Rutberg.
Elizabeth Keckley was a self freed woman who learned her dressmaking skills from her mother, who ironicly chose to stay with her master when given the chance for freedom. Lizzie made her way to Washington D.C. from a pre-civil war south. She fought through the extreme prejudices to become none-other than Mrs. Lincoln's dressmaker. Mary Lincoln had a reputation of being very hard to get along with but Lizzie, always resourceful, found a way to work with and eventually to become Mrs. Lincoln's friend. This is a great read and I've thoughrouly enjoyed learning more about the Lincolns and especially about Lizzie Keckley.

Come in and ask Vicki Dopp more about this book and possible read-a-likes!

What is Readers Advisory (RA)

"Do you have anything else like this?”

We call them read-a-likes or recommended reads. In our public libraries, librarians are often called on to make recommendations to patrons, sometimes in genres that they normally would not read.

The key to this is to be able to discuss with your patron the attraction of the book(s) you are recommending. Readers’ advisory is defined as, “patron-oriented library service for adult leisure readers,” according to Saricks, a noted expert on the subject.

Joyce G. Saricks retired in 2004 from the Downers Grove, Illinois, Public Library where she started in 1977. As Literature and Audio Services Coordinator in 1983, Saricks, along with colleague Nancy Brown, created a readers’ advisory service there and went on to present more than 100 workshops on the subject for public libraries and systems, and at library conferences. The award-winning librarian received the Public Library Association’s Allie Beth Martin Award in 1989, was named Librarian of the Year by the Romance Writers in 2000, and authored Reader's Advisory Guide to Genre Fiction (ALA Editions, 2001).

In NOVELISTPLUS , a databass found on the PamunkeyRegionalLibraryWebsite, there is a tutorial on exactly what Readers Advisory is. Check out the many ways you can explore the different genres available to whomever is open to reading outside their norm.