North Highlands-Antelope Friends of the Sacramento Public Library

SAVE THE DATE!

Friday, November 5th and Friday, December 3^rd, 2021, 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm. Members Only Friday night book sales at the Book Den.

Tuesday, January 11, 2022 at 7:00 pm Friends of Sacramento Public Library Board meets via zoom.

Sunday, February 6, 2022 at 1:00 pm via ZOOM. Annual meeting, election of board and officers. 
All Friends Meeting via zoom will immediately follow the board meeting.

MESSAGE FROM THE BRANCH FRIENDS PRESIDENT
CHARLYNE NICHOLS NHAntelopefriends@gmail.com

Dear Friends,

Covid still has our Friends’ activities on hold. Please, please, please, keep your membership current. Until we can again hold some books sales, our annual tea, etc., the membership dues are our only source of funding, monies benefiting not only our local branch of the library but also the North Highlands Antelope community – i.e., YOUR community!

This should probably go without saying…when you visit the library, you must wear a mask and observe social distancing. Only very young children are exempt from the mask requirement. BTW, if you forget your mask, you may pick one up in the lobby. They are free.

A reminder…Library hours are 10:00am to 6:00pm, Tuesday through Saturday.

Also worth mentioning…Several more computers are now available for your use—that is, at least a few more, if not the entire bank of them, than only the 2 or 3 we had to access fairly recently.

Volunteers are needed for the Book First program, a program that gives two new books to every first grader in the entire SPL area. If you have a few hours to donate please consider participating in book packet assembly and/or a virtual class visit that will be conducted via Zoom. Emails with signup information will be forthcoming. The Book First program is a very worthwhile and rewarding volunteer opportunity.

To find out more about the program and volunteer opportunities visit the Friends website at https://saclibfriends.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Year-6-Book-Pack-Assembling-eBlast-2.pdfhow

Storytime resumes! Yay!! The program will be taking place outdoors. What fun! Storytime is a program for our little tykes (infants to 6 years old) that includes songs, rhymes, and stories designed to build early literacy skills of young children.

Weather permitting, these fun-time events will start October 27th and will be held at Brock Park, 3730 Antelope Road, every Thursday at 10:30am. https://www.mapquest.com/us/california/brock-park-378564690

This program is for parents and caregivers with young children, older siblings all are welcome to attend.

Fall and winter mornings can be chilly, so take care to dress for the weather. Also note that the program may be cancelled due to inclement weather or poor air quality. Bring blankets or cushions to sit on. Spaces will be marked off allowing for social distancing.

MESSAGE FROM THE SYSTEM FRIENDS BRANCH LIAISON

KAREN LINDH  Karen.lindh@icloud.net

Rivkah Sass. As I am sure you know, Library Director Rivkah Sass will be retiring at the end of the year, after twelve years at the helm of the Sacramento Public Library. The search for a new Library Director has entered its final stages, with an announcement to come soon from the Library Joint Power Authority. The Friends have been a part of the selection process.

Young Readers Fund.  The Friends Board, along with our legacy giving arm, Friends Investing in Sacramento Public Library, has created a new fund to honor Rivkah Sass. We hope to raise public awareness of the Library as a vital community asset with the Young Readers Fund, providing funds into the future to nurture young readers. These are new initiatives for the Friends, and they build on the success we have had with the much-loved Book First program. We will be taking part in Giving Tuesday on November 30 on behalf of the Young Readers Fund. We also encourage our Branch Friends groups to consider a donation to support this exciting new endowment program.

Book First. This amazing program is entering its 6th year! For the next book distribution to first graders, we will continue to provide two books to each student, one fiction and one nonfiction. Book First will serve an additional eight schools this year, for a total of 180 schools and an estimated 14,000 first grade students receiving Book First books! Thanks to the generosity of the entire Sacramento Community and all our Friends, in May we raised over $100,000 for this program, which is more than a four-fold increase since the initial Book First campaigns. Volunteers will again be needed this year to assemble book packets, either at home or in-person work parties at the Central Galleria. To find out how you can help, or to volunteer, sign up through our SignUpGenius form: https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C0F4EA8AC2FA6F8C25-book1.
Further instructions will be provided to all our volunteers.

The Book Den is now officially open. Official hours are 9-1pm on Wednesdays, Fridays, and non-warehouse sale Saturdays. You can shop the store and the warehouse with no appointment. Warehouse sales will continue by appointment only twice a month. In November, the Book Den will re-institute the monthly Members Only Friday night sales. This is a great perk to all our Friends members, so be sure to stop by during one of these Members Only sales. The first two will be November 5th and December 3rd from 5pm to 8pm.

Annual Meeting Friends meeting is set for Sunday, February 6, 2022 at 1:00 pm via Zoom. This is the meeting where you can vote for the officers and Board members taking office in 2022, so mark your calendars now. Upon the conclusion of the Annual Meeting, we will hold our regular All Friends, and I hope North Highlands-Antelope branch Friends will participate.

Among Friends. If you haven’t had a chance to review the FSPL Winter edition of Among Friends, you can check it out here: https://saclibfriends.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/2021-Winter-Newsletter.pdf?blm_aid=23826.

INTRODUCING CHLOE HORSMA, NORTH HIGHLANDS-ANTELOPE LIBRARY'S NEWEST LIBRARIAN 

Chloe joined the team at the North Highlands-Antelope Library in April 2021. In addition to several years with the Sacramento Public Library, Chloe has an arts and creative writing background, is an avid knitter and craftsperson, and is the proud human companion of a one-year-old pug named Fig! So far at the North Highlands-Antelope Library, Chloe has worked on inviting teen volunteers back to the library, co-led the library’s Summer Meals program, and conducted virtual outreach to hundreds of 3^rd – 8^th graders in the Sacramento Public Library’s first Reading Ambassadors program. She is also a member of the Library Freedom Project, which trains librarians as privacy advocates in their communities. Chloe often reads several books at once, across genres, formats, and age ranges. She is currently reading a paper copy of I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness by Claire Vaye Watkins and the e-audiobook for YA title The Witch King by HE Edgmon. Among her most recent favorite picture books are Crocodiles Need Kisses, Too by Rebecca Colby and Alphonse, there's mud on the ceiling! by Daisy Hirst. Come see her at the library, or at an Outdoor Family Storytime near you!

Come see Chloe at the library, or at an Outdoor Family Storytime near you! Or join Chloe or another librarian to Zoom into a classroom full of excited young readers by signing up for a virtual Book First visit in the spring.

HALLOWEEN by Charlyne Nichols

Halloween has a long and interesting history dating back to ancient Celtic days, and has not always been associated with scary things or bags of candy! In fact, even in the early days in Europe and England, it had religious significance with special observations. If you are interested in exploring the history, mythologies, and superstitious about Halloween, check out the history of Halloween at History.com  https://www.history.com/topics/halloween/history-of-halloween

Read a scary story! So many great resources available at the library.