Are you sure a binturong likes librarians?

A very friendly kangaroo!

Some children tore themselves away from the animals to enjoy book arts with Humanities librarian Yolanda Merrill.

And others enjoyed face painting with Friends of the Library Board member Michael Lynn.

Not ALL animals are fuzzy...

Stephanie Wilkinson soldiered on in the face of stiff competition from hopping animals and squealing kids.

Children of all ages enjoyed the day and the events.

I thought hedgehogs were bigger!

Anything to eat in here, or just books???

Inside Northen, for the grown-ups, we have Stephanie Wilkinson, co-founder of Brain, Child magazine. A morning NOT TO BE MISSED.

Refreshments, too!

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Belfast Telegraph

May 9, 2009
Main Edition

Brought to book over a (very) late library return

BYLINE: Carlo Gebler featureseditor@belfasttelegraph.co.uk

SECTION: FEATURES; Pg. 62

LENGTH: 358 words

My father Ernest Gébler was born in Ireland in 1914. He sat World War II out
in Dublin. He meant to join the RAF but never did, and in 1945 he needed money.
As the USA was the world's richest nation, a friend suggested he write a novel
about the Mayflower sailing in 1620 to Massachusetts with the puritans who
founded Plymouth, America's first English-speaking colony. The Yanks were bound
to love it - after all, it was their founding myth.

He went to the Royal Dublin Society (RDS) library to research the subject
and, as he later told me, as he was cruising the shelves a book literally fell
at his feet - The Story of The Pilgrim Fathers, 1606-1623 AD as told by
Themselves, their Friends, and their Enemies, edited from the original texts by
Edward Arber.

He borrowed the Arber and used it as the basis for a novel, The Plymouth
Adventure. His book sold four million copies, was made into a movie by Metro
Goldwyn Meyer starring Spencer Tracy, picked up an Oscar for Best Special
Effects and made him rich.

Now he still had the Arber that Providence had flung at his feet and, unable
to part with it, he told the RDS librarian he'd lost it and paid £1 10/- for a
new one. The librarian scoured second-hand bookshops looking to replace it but,
as he told my father in a later letter, he couldn't find one.

When my father died the Arber came to me, with the correspondence between him
and the librarian tucked inside. I put it onto my shelves and looked at it
thereafter only occasionally. I knew I shouldn't keep it but I persuaded myself
that really it was so overdue the RDS wouldn't want it back now.

Or so I thought until I learnt that Volume 1 of History of the War in the
Peninsula and in the South of France From 1807 to 1814, looted on June 11, 1864,
by C S Bates of the Army of West Virginia from what was then Washington College,
had just been returned to the Washington and Lee University library by one of
Gates' descendents.

If that was possible 145 years on, then surely my father's book, a mere 62
years overdue, really should be returned. But if I'm to beat the American record
I don't have to do anything for another 83 years. Phew.

LOAD-DATE: May 9, 2009

LANGUAGE: ENGLISH

PUBLICATION-TYPE: Newspaper

JOURNAL-CODE: UN

Copyright 2009 Belfast Telegraph Newspapers Ltd.
All Rights Reserved

John Adams' A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America, Volume 1, published in 1797 in Philadelphia. It needs about $1000 worth of repair.



Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, published in London in 1859. Needs about $300 dollars worth of restoration



Benjamin Franklin's Experiments and Observations on Electricity, published in London 1751-54. Estimated repair costs are $750

and the Muster Roll of the 144th Regiment of Virginia Militia, Rockbridge County, 1830s. Repair estimate is $1,000

In next to NO TIME we had one Friend who paid a portion of the cost to restore the Adams book and another who paid the full amount for Darwin's work. We're off to a great start!

If you would like to contribute to the salvation of a book, whether it's part of the cost or the full amount, just send a check to Friends of the Library. Be sure to note which book it's for!

]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/05/adopt-a-book_program_takes_off.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/05/adopt-a-book_program_takes_off.html Tue, 05 May 2009 18:40:02 +0000 The April 2009 issue of FOLios

folios_april_09.pdf

]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/04/april_folio.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/04/april_folio.html FOLios Newsletter Archive Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:06:36 +0000 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!!

]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/04/folios_and_other_stuff.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/04/folios_and_other_stuff.html Mon, 20 Apr 2009 15:48:03 +0000 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.


]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/04/leyburn_librarian_is_world_fam.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/04/leyburn_librarian_is_world_fam.html Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:25:43 +0000 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.

]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/04/book_sale_-_soon.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/04/book_sale_-_soon.html Fri, 03 Apr 2009 12:50:01 +0000 On Saturday, May 2, at 3 p.m. in Northen Auditorium, The Friends Present Bill Buice ('55) and his wife Stuart who will share their love of books and book collecting. Bill and Stuart have been tag-teaming book presentations for several years and never fail to excite and challenge their audiences. They are renowned collectors and are bringing some of their favorite items to share with us. This will be another in our line of exceptional speakers you won't want to miss!
]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/03/bill_and_stuart_buice_set_to_w.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/03/bill_and_stuart_buice_set_to_w.html Mon, 23 Mar 2009 19:41:26 +0000 In 1800 John Rogers made the first major gift of books to Washington Academy. In recognition of that special gift, the Friends of the Library Board has created the John Rogers award. This will be an occasional award, given to those people the Board and members recognize as having contributed significantly to the University Library over a long period of time. The contribution may be time, energy, expertise, money, or any combination of efforts. Current Board members and Library staff are not eligible.

This year we will present the first of these awards. And you will be pleased to know we had a great long list of exceptional people from whom to choose. We finally settled on three recipients. These awards will be presented on May 2, at 3 p.m., in Northen Auditorium, right before Bill and Stuart Buice thrill us with their talk about their exemplary book collection.

A plaque will be hung in the lobby of Leyburn to commemorate these and future recipients of the award.

Don't miss this special occasion!

]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/03/the_john_rogers_award_-_2009.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/03/the_john_rogers_award_-_2009.html Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:33:23 +0000 The Friends of the Library of W&L and the Friends of the Rockbridge Regional Library are providing a joint event: a bus tour of book stores in Charlottesville VA! Charlottesville is a famous literary center, hosting the annual Virginia Festival of the Book, and providing a long list of book stores for any and all reading interests. The plan, as of now, is to go over at 9 a.m., arriving about 10. The bus will deliver us to an assortment of book stores. Lunch will be on your own. In the afternoon we hope to offer a choice: more book stores or a visit to UVA's Alderman Library with a "special" talk....more to be announced as we firm things up. The bus leaves at 5 p.m. and gets back to Lexington around 6.

Charlottesville is rich in specialty book and used book stores. 10 book stores are within walking distance in downtown Charlottesville with 7 more close by. In addition, an optional mini-trip to the UVa library is scheduled for the afternoon. Book store specialties include Americana, Jeffersoniana, children's books, science fiction, art and architecture, 1st editions and fine bindings, military subjects, and used and new books of all kinds. No matter what your reading and collecting interest these books stores have something you'll want to see - and maybe buy!

The cost for the bus is $20 per person, checks made out to W&L Friends of the Library and sent to
Karin O'Callaghan at
University Library
W&L
Lexington VA 24450

or you may drop them off in person!

The bus will leave from the Tractor Supply parking lot PROMPTLY at 9 a.m. Tractor Supply is on the north side of town, on 11North, in the shopping center on the right as you head for I64 or I81 or Wal Mart. There's plenty of parking available, but as a courtesy to the stores, please park in less "front row" spaces.

Any questions? Call Karin at 540-458-8642 or e-mail her at ocallaghank@wlu.edu.

Hope to see you on the bus!


]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/03/coming_april_30_2009.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/03/coming_april_30_2009.html Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:24:11 +0000 Latest folio
]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/03/latest_folio.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2009/03/latest_folio.html FOLios Newsletter Archive Mon, 09 Mar 2009 18:46:30 +0000 On May 2, 2009, the Friends of the Library of W&L will bestow the John Rogers Award for the first time. In 1800 John Rogers gave the first major gift of books to Washington Academy. In 2007 the Board of the Friends decided to create an award in Rogers' honor, "to show appreciation to those individuals who, over a long period of time, have given extraordinary service and multi-faceted support to the University Library. Individuals may merit consideration for the award for many contributions, from financial support to donation of materials to the very special gift of their time, intelligence and affection."

Three distinguished friends of the library have been selected to receive this award at the annual event in May. Guess who?

]]> http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2008/12/may_2_2009_first_ever.html http://bloggery.wlu.edu/friends/2008/12/may_2_2009_first_ever.html Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:42:19 +0000