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The April 2009 issue of FOLios
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The April 2009 issue of FOLios
The next issue of FOLios is in the mail and online. Just hop over to the Friends Archive and bring it up - April 2009 edition.
See you May 2 at 3 pm for the entertaining presentation by Friends members and avid book collectors Bill and Stuart Buice. Northen Auditorium of Leyburn.
And don't forget the Friends Book Sale preview on April 30, 4 - 7 p.m., and the library tours during the day of May 2.
See you next week!!
As you will read in the next FOLios, our own Laura Turner, Technical Services librarian, was instrumental in reacquiring a 145 years-missing volume from the Washington College library. And it became the news story of the week! Laura was inundated with calls for interviews from television, radio, and print sources, including the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, CBC, local CBS and NBC affiliates, NPR, and the BBC, to name just a few. Here is a link to her NPR interview: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103183519. Check your local papers for the AP story under the title "Washington and Lee University Gets Book Back After 145 Years". No fine was levied.
To read more, go to the library's posting about the long-lost book in the Library News column in our Web site:http://library.wlu.edu/
The book will be on display at our May 2 meeting, 3 p.m. in Northen Auditorium of Leyburn Library.
The annual book sale - usually held in the Fall - will be held in May this year: May 1 - 4. It offficially runs from 8:30 a.m. on Friday, May 1 until 8:30 a.m. on Tuesday,May 5, 24 hours a day.
HOWEVER, Friends of the Library get a sneak preview, and the opportunity to buy, before anyone else, on Thursday, April 30 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m.
So, after you get off the bus from the Charlottesville book store tour, pop into Leyburn Library and stock up on some MORE books!
The plan is to get back on schedule with our Fall book sale now that the renovation is completed.