Message from Karen Wilson, System Friends President
Two weeks from today, Giving Tuesday, November 30, will
be an opportunity to show our gratitude for the gift of reading, and to the
libraries that make that gift accessible to everyone. This year the Friends
of the Sacramento Public Library will be dedicating all funds raised on
Giving Tuesday to the Young Readers Fund honoring our retiring Library Director,
Rivkah Sass. As she has requested, this endowed fund will be used to
provide programs and materials that nurture early readers.
Under Rivkah’s leadership, the Sacramento Public Library has become
a national leader in making libraries accessible and engaging, safe and
inspiring. In spite of the challenges posed by the pandemic, our libraries are
adapting and providing vital public services. We all look forward to the days
when kids and adults can fully use our neighborhood libraries again. The Young
Readers Fund will be there to help future library staff provide innovative
services that help build lifelong reading skills, and just the plain joy of
reading.
A big Thank You to Capital Stage, and its Producing
Artistic Director Michael Stevenson, for putting the importance of libraries
into words, with videos you will be seeing on social media on behalf of the
Young Readers Fund. They feature Capital Stage actors James Ellison, Devin
Valdez, Elyse Sharp and Juan Chavez performing quotes from authors on what
libraries have meant to them.
Click on the link below to take part in Giving Tuesday in any
way you can, and thank you. For more information go to Saclibfriends.org
