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HOW YOUR DOLLAR CAN STILL COUNT
Tickets are now on sale for this year’s Spring Author Luncheon Raffle with FIVE prizes available to winners.
For only a dollar (or give us $5, and we’ll give you six chances to win), you might be the recipient of one of the 
following special items:
+Tracy and Stacy of Masterpiece Jewelers on Beville Road have donated an abalone jewelry set with necklace, ring, and earrings. Retail value: $109.
+How about a basket of goodies for a favorite reader, including a cut glass bowl to hold the snacks offered in the basket along with a stack of good reading material?
+Tim and Michele Franks of Remedy Spa in Pelican Bay have donated a one-hour relaxation massage. Retail value: $65
+Artist Gary Bobcik has offered an original acrylic(?) painting of a Lakeside Scene
+Sally Raulerson has donated Print Number 1 of 20 of a collage painting called “Anastasia Light,” depicting 
the lighthouse in St. Augustine on Anastasia Island.
Prize items can be viewed at the City Island center year the Reference Desk, and tickets can be purchased at the Circulation Desk. Drawings for the prizes will take place at the Annual Author Luncheon on April 6. You need not be present to win.
PROGRAM AD SPACE STILL AVAILABLE
With this year’s luncheon, the Friends of the Library will again sell ads for its program. What a great way to put your business out front to a very captive audience who will be encouraged to patronized the supporters listed in the booklet, which this year will be IN COLOR. Annual program circulation reaches over 150 households in our area. Ad sizes and rates are as follows:
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Full page $80
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Quarter page $40
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Half page $60
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Business card size $25
Program deadline is FRIDAY, MARCH 18. For further information, contact Friends of the Library officers Carol Ritzinger at 386-257-9870 (creepy 35@aol.com) OR Jackie Peacock at 386-253-9128 (NoNuke1@hotmail.com).
Meet Linda Girouard Fisher: Library Assistant and Artist
If you have a love of books, a love of art, and a love of children, there is no better place to be than in the Children’s Section of Daytona Beach Regional Library. Linda Girouard Fisher, assistant librarian, artist, and mother of three has found her perfect place as the assistant librarian in the Children’s Section of the library, and all the young who attend the library have benefited from her creativity.
Linda is originally from Ohio, where her parents still reside in the family home. After high school Linda was off to Ohio State University to pursue a degree majoring in art. However, she also always had a love of books and was soon working as a student assistant in the university library. Little did she know at the time that this would lead to a future career in libraries in many different parts of the country. Soon she would be hired as a full time library assistant at the university library. Then there would be a move to Florida and a position with the library at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, a move to Michigan and another library position at Eastern Michigan University.
In between all of this there were many years when she was busy with her children and all of the activities that they enjoyed. It was during the time that her children were young that she had a chance to further her love of art by working with children’s art activities as a Girl Scout Troup Leader. This would lead to a discovery that she could find the perfect blend of all of her interests by working in the Children’s Section of a library.
Another move to Florida would find Linda working as a library assistant in the Children’s Section of the New Smyrna Beach Regional Library, where she would work for two years, before transitioning to the Daytona Beach Regional Library where she has been a library assistant in the Children’s Section for the past three years.
It was during the early Florida years that Linda had an opportunity to explore the beaches and dunes of our area and to renew her love of art, painting many scenes of the ever changing shore. Then there were classes at Daytona State College and classes at the Art League in Daytona Beach. There she would continue to 
develop her artistic talent in mixed media, acrylic, watercolor, and pastel. Soon there would be exhibits of her work at the Halifax Art Show, the New Smyrna Beach Library, City Island Library, and at the Art League.
It was at the Art League that she met her husband Ron Fisher, an artist and Art League Instructor. Together the Fishers have pursued their love of art and travel, beginning with a honeymoon to the Egypt, a land steeped in thousands of years of the arts. Linda’s identical twin sister is also an artist and she has enjoyed art trips with her sister as well. One of the most memorable was a trip that they took through France following in the path of the Post Impressionist painter Vincent Van Gogh.
Linda’s cultural travels and artistic talent have not only been a source of personal pleasure for her, they have also provided inspiration for a host of library programs for children and teens. With her professional knowledge and personal experience, Linda is a master of awakening the imagination of the young. As you walk around the Children’s Section of the library, you can see her work and her influence in the art displays, posters, and in the props and sets of the puppet shows. Her talent is also evident in popular programs for the teen groups. There have been programs in jewelry making, tie dieing, and graphic art. And there are even more exciting programs to come.
Currently the summer library programs are being planned with an abundance of programs for both children and teens. Of special interest to Linda is a summer program that will take children around the world in books and art projects. Pulling from her own travel experience, Linda is developing an exciting Egyptian program for the summer. There will be opportunities to make Egyptian style jewelry, learn to write hieroglyphics, and venture to new realms of the imagination. A variety of other programs will be offered through the summer so that there will be something for the young to enjoy almost every day, and I suspect that there will be some parents and grandparents enjoying those programs too.
Linda Girouard Fisher is indeed doing what she loves, work that combines art, books, and the enrichment of children’s lives. It is what she loves and what she does so very, very well.
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Some Ramblings
by Brook White, Daytona Beach Regional Librarian"
A patron recently asked me if the library has Jaws? Since I had just helped her with another DVD request, I informed her that our copy was unavailable. She then responded, “No, I mean do you have the book?” Well, not only does the library have the book, but I could even get an audio book for her. How could any movie top the first line of the book: “The great fish moved silently through the night water, propelled by short sweeps of its crescent tail.” Which then started me thinking, how many other “classic” books – my definition of classic is a noteworthy book in the broadest sense – can the library system offer to our patrons in various formats? For example, in which formats can we offer Stephen King’s Pet Sematary? I’ve watched the movie, but can a movie do justice to the way in which King described the well-kept path leading to the cemetery? Thankfully, the library system can offer the book in fiction, YA, and audio.
Presently, many of the most popular authors have their works simultaneously published in many various formats. For example, let us consider Nora Roberts and the book Black Rose. The library offers the book in these formats: Playaway, CD (both abridged and unabridged), large print, and “regular” fiction. If we consider own of her more current books, then the library can now offer the book through OverDrive: the book can be downloaded and listened to at home without you ever setting a foot inside the library, or viewed as an eBook, again, the book is downloaded and read at home without you visiting the library.
Furthermore, many authors now have their works being adapted as graphic novels, which means that the work’s narrative is told through a combination of art and text, often in a comic-strip format. Examples include Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, Dante’s Divine Comedy, Homer’s Odyssey, and Anne Frank (an authorized graphic biography). The youth of today might not wish to read the book, but they might give a graphic representation a try.
While I cannot predict the future, I do not believe that libraries will be disappearing anytime soon. While many come and visit the library for a DVD, many others are checking out books. And those books just happen to be in many different guises.
Dickerson Library Annual Author Luncheon
The Friends of the John H. Dickerson Heritage Library will present their 11th annual Author Lucheon on Saturday, March 19, in the Civic Engagement Center of Bethune-Cookman Univeristy. This year’s featured author will be Patricia Larkins Hicks, PhD, who will talk about her book, “Be Your B.E.S.T.”
Dr. Hicks is founder and president of the Outcomes Management Group, Ltd. She has thirty years of experience in health care, organizational development, education, and program evaluation. She brings to her entrepreneurial leadership a passion for results coupled with diverse experiences working as a university professor, hearing and speech clinician, administrator, and corporate executive. Her company was selected by the Small Business Commerce Association for the 2009 Best of Business Award in the Management Services category.
Lunch will be served at 12:00 p.m. with a social time at 11:30 a.m. Tickets at $25.00, are available from members of the Friends of the Dickerson Library and at the Library Information Desk. For further information, call (386) 239-6478 or (386) 239-6478.
FILMS FOR MARCH and APRIL
Fridays at 1:30 in the Main Auditorium
FILMS SHOWN FRIDAYS AT 1:30 P.M. IN THE MAIN AUDITORIUM
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3/2 "Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt.1" starring Kristen Stewart,
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3/9 "J Edgar" starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts
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3/16 "Hugo" starring Ben Kingsley, Jude Law
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3/23 "Immortals" starring Henry Cavill, Mickey Rourke
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3/30 "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" starring Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
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4/6 "A Dangerous Method" starring Viggo Mortensen, Kiera Knightly,
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4/20 "The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo" (American version) starring Rooney Mara and Daniel Craig.
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4/27 "Iron Lady" starring Meryl Streep.
Family Movies
Sundays at 2pm. in the Childrens Auditorium
Children and their parents or caregivers are most welcome.Adults may bring snacks and drinks
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3/16 "Hugo" starring Ben Kingsley, Jude Law
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5/4"The Artist" starring Jean Dujardin.
ANNUAL MEETING SET FOR MAY 18TH
The Friends of the Library at the Daytona Beach Regional Library will hold their annual meeting on Wednesday, May 18, in the auditorium at the City Island location. This meeting prescribed by the by-laws of the organization will begin at 4PM with the President’s report of activities and the Treasurer’s reports of current finances and expenditures.
The Nominating Committee of Ellen O’Shaughnessy, Lynn Lempel and Mary Fagan will present the slate of officers for the year 2011-2012 as follows:
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President: Carol Rigtzinger
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President-elect: Mary Fagan
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Recording Secretary: Phoebe Smith
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Corresponding Secretary: Mary McLemore
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Treasurer: Marcia Manthey
Following the Business portion of the meeting, the Friends of the Library will hold a Meet-and Greet time for Library Staff and Library Volunteers.
We look forward to expressing our appreciation to the volunteers in the Circulation Department in the Daytona Beach Regional Library, including these new folks
Wanda Fields
mary Lou Fox
Stephanie Henzel
lous Keefe
Pat Lodholtz
Okechukwu Okpara
Light Refreshments will be served following the meeting
IT'S TIME TO PAY YOUR MEMBERSHIP DUES
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