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Every year, the Multnomah County Library chooses one book they hope the whole city of Portland will read. Between January and April, the Library, and their partner organizations, host events based around the themes of the book, and they distribute thousands of free copies—thanks to the Library Foundation—to readers of all ages from across the county. Here at Literary Arts, our role is to bring the author to town for a talk in the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.   This year, the 2025 Everybody Reads selection is the memoir Solito by Javier Zamora. For information about how to engage with the program, visit the Multnomah County Library's web site. I am thrilled to say Javier Zamora will be in Portland on Tuesday, March 11 at the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall for the culminating event of the 2025 Everybody Reads Program.   For now, let's return to the 2024 Everybody Reads event, featuring Gabrielle Zevin and her novel Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow.   Gabrielle Zevin has been steadily publishing fiction for almost two decades and has also written occasional criticism as well as award-winning screenplays. But it was Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow that catapulted her to the stratosphere of literary stardom. It was a #1 New York Times bestseller and spent over 50 weeks on the fiction bestseller list.    To be sure, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow is about video games, and makes a convincing argument for the power and potential of narrative storytelling in video games. But really, it is about making art, and questions about originality, appropriation, and ambition that come with that pursuit. And perhaps more so, it is a love story, about friends and creative partners, and the excitement, joy, tragedy, and betrayal that come with any long relationship. It's about something, I'd wager, we've all been thinking about the past few years: connection.    Tickets for Everybody Reads 2025 with Javier Zamora are on sale now! Find your tickets here.  Gabrielle Zevin is a New York Times best-selling novelist whose books have been translated into forty languages.   Her tenth novel, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, was a New York Times Best Seller, a Sunday Times Best Seller, and a selection of the Tonight Show's Fallon Book Club. Tomorrow was Amazon.com's #1 Book of the Year, Time Magazine's #1 Book of the Year, a New York Times Notable Book, and the winner of both the Goodreads Choice Award for Fiction and the Book of the Month Club's Book of the Year. Following a twenty-five-bidder auction, the feature film rights to Tomorrow were acquired by Temple Hill and Paramount Studios.  The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry also spent many months on the New York Times Best Seller List. A.J. Fikry was honored with the Southern California Independent Booksellers Award for Fiction, the Japan Booksellers' Prize, among other honors. A.J. Fikry is now a feature film with a screenplay by Zevin. She has also written children's books, including the award-winning Elsewhere.   She is the screenwriter of Conversations with Other Women (Helena Bonham Carter) for which she received an Independent Spirit Award Nomination for Best First Screenplay. She has occasionally written criticism for the New York Times Book Review and NPR's All Things Considered, and she began her writing career, at age fourteen, as a music critic for the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel. Zevin is a graduate of Harvard University. She lives in Los Angeles. 

We discuss with Stuart Library Foundation Member Russ Wagner.

Matt talks to Ed O'Keefe, CEO of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation. The pair dive into everything from how a president, whose face is carved on Mount Rushmore, doesn't already have a library, to how one goes about starting and fundraising for, such a massive project. Additionally, they explore the conservation movement that TR started and the bipartisan support he, and the library named in his honor, have garnered in a divided Congress; the importance of knowing when it's time to walk away (and, conversely, when it's important to stay) Ed also sheds light on working for the Emmy winning Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown and discusses his newly published book, “The Loves of Theodore Roosevelt: the Women who Created a President”

Li Wei Yang is curator of Pacific Rim Collections at the Huntington Library. His first Huntington exhibition, “Y.C. Hong: Advocate for Chinese American Inclusion,” was on view in 2015. In 2020, Yang was part of The Huntington, Los Angeles Public Library, and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles team that curated “Stories and Voices from L.A. Chinatown,” an exhibition located in L.A. Chinatown's Central Plaza and online. In 2023, he curated the exhibition “Printed in 1085,” which focused on the Scripture of the Great Flower Ornament of the Buddha, The Huntington's oldest printed book. From 2008 to 2014, he was the institutional archivist and project archivist at The Huntington. He received his M.Sc. in history from the University of Edinburgh and MLIS from San Jose State University.Medium History explores memories and moments through creativity and expression, capturing the cultural ethos of that time and place through storytelling and representation. Visual material culture, such as art, and other multimodal forms can elicit responses, emotions, and opinions—human expressions, tied to temporal and cultural aesthetics. This program explores how creative mediums provide context for history beyond dates, and names, and figures.Partnering with Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences at Chapman University, this series will explore how photographs and film, specifically candid or vernacular documentation, captures history, the emotion of a moment before devastation, in the midst of tragedy and triumph, and in the common day-to-day of days long forgotten. Supported by the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program, a state-funded grant project of the California State Library, this series is designed to be a companion to the project, Through Internees Eyes: Japanese American Incarceration Before and After.Guest: Li Wei YangHosts: Jon-Barrett IngelsProduced by: Past Forward

On Wednesday, The Bank of Canada announced another “hold” on the Key Lending Rate. So how will this impact you and your personal finances? We get the thoughts of Bruce Sellery, CEO of Credit Canada.   Next, life is difficult in so many ways - and many of us are struggling. If you can relate, don't keep it in - get help and reach out to a friend. We catch up with our ‘friend', Mental Health Advocate and Social Worker Karen Gallagher-Burt, to hear why she believes “laughter” can be a real and powerful tool for those going through a tough time.   Finally, we continue the conversation surrounding mental health resources available in the city. We get details on a very unique program being run by the Calgary Public Library available for free to all Calgarians. We speak with Tracy Johnson, CEO of the “Calgary Public Library Foundation”, for details on the Library's “Wellness Desk Program” in partnership with “Wood's Homes”.

Join John & Robin on The Good Morning Show as they welcome Imagine IF Library Foundation Executive Director Sarah Busse for an illuminating discussion!

This week, Christine Weinreich, head of the Memphis Library Foundation, joined Eric Barnes on The Sidebar to talk about the foundation's work in support of Memphis public libraries. 

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week on the Superlative Podcast, our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Martine Depresle, the CEO, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Watch Library Foundation. To start the show Ariel and Martine talk about her extensive career in the watch industry while working for other major brands before she dives into what the Watch Library is. Martine talks about the foundation's mission with preservation, and the two discuss how the history of the industry plays a part in the value of today's watches. Ariel asks how someone would reach out to the Watch Library if they feel they have something of value that the library would appreciate, and he asks what it is like to actually use the Watch Library itself. They talk about the introduction of AI in the historical preservation industry, and what an actual Watch Library exhibit could potentially look like in person. To stay connected with Martine and The Watch Library:- Website - https://watchlibrary.org/ - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-watch-library/ SUPERLATIVE IS NOW ON YOUTUBE! To check out Superlative on Youtube as well as other ABTW content:- YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ablogtowatch To check out the ABTW Shop where you can see our products inspired by our love of Horology:- Shop ABTW - https://store.ablogtowatch.com/To keep updated with everything Superlative and aBlogtoWatch, check us out on:- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ablogtowatch/- Twitter - https://twitter.com/ABLOGTOWATCH- Website - https://www.ablogtowatch.com/If you enjoy the show please Subscribe, Rate, and Review!

This is Superlative: A Podcast about watches, the people behind them, and the worlds that inspire them. This week on the Superlative Podcast, our host and aBlogtoWatch Founder Ariel Adams is joined by Martine Depresle, the CEO, Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Watch Library Foundation. To start the show Ariel and Martine talk about her extensive career in the watch industry while working for other major brands before she dives into what the Watch Library is. Martine talks about the foundation's mission with preservation, and the two discuss how the history of the industry plays a part in the value of today's watches. Ariel asks how someone would reach out to the Watch Library if they feel they have something of value that the library would appreciate, and he asks what it is like to actually use the Watch Library itself. They talk about the introduction of AI in the historical preservation industry, and what an actual Watch Library exhibit could potentially look like in person. To stay connected with Martine and The Watch Library:- Website - https://watchlibrary.org/ - LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-watch-library/ SUPERLATIVE IS NOW ON YOUTUBE! To check out Superlative on Youtube as well as other ABTW content:- YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@ablogtowatch To check out the ABTW Shop where you can see our products inspired by our love of Horology:- Shop ABTW - https://store.ablogtowatch.com/To keep updated with everything Superlative and aBlogtoWatch, check us out on:- Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/ablogtowatch/- Twitter - https://twitter.com/ABLOGTOWATCH- Website - https://www.ablogtowatch.com/If you enjoy the show please Subscribe, Rate, and Review!

On today’s program, I am talking with Washington Public Library Director Cary Ann Siegfried about the grant that the Library Foundation received from the Washington County Riverboat Foundation.

Pirates, Revolutionary War skirmishes, Gullah roots, and so much more make up Hilton Head Island's history. In honor of the Town of Hilton Head Island's 360/40 Celebration, we invite the executive director of the Heritage Library Foundation Barbara Catenaci in our studio to talk about the island's pre-civil war history and how locals can trace their roots.

Jacqueline “Jackie” Hamilton, MBA, CFRE, currently serves as Assistant Director of Advancement for St. Louis County Library (SLCL). As the Library's Chief Fundraiser, she leads SLCL's  Foundation team of four, which is responsible for planning, developing, and implementing strategic fundraising revenue generating programs to support the library's commitment to the community.Hamilton has over 15 years of fundraising experience. Through community involvement and professional opportunities, she has been vital in raising over $100 million to empower the St. Louis region.A proud St. Louis native, she enjoys being a mentor for BIPOC fundraising professionals and young people throughout the region.  In her free time, you can find her playing tennis, golfing, biking and traveling.

Monday, July 3, 2023 - News director Dave Thompson visits with Edward Fitzpatrick O'Keefe, the chief executive officer of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation. They discuss the plans for this ambitious project coming to Medora. ~~~ In an episode of Birdnote, we hear a story about birds who take advantage of a free ride during their migrations. ~~~ There's a new farm incubator in North Dakota. It's a place where people are given temporary, exclusive, and affordable access to land, infrastructure, and training, for the purpose of launching farm businesses. We visit with Megan Langley, executive director of Strengthen ND. ~~~ The Farm Bill is up for renewal this year. And the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, also known as SNAP, is almost always a partisan battle. Republicans have pushed hard to expand work requirements for those who get SNAP. Harvest Public Media's Eva Tesfaye reports.

Noteworthy host Lynnsay Maynard speaks with American-Canadian author, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki. Ozeki's novel 'A Tale for the Time Being' is the 2023 Everybody Reads pick by Multnomah County Library and The Library Foundation, presented in partnership with Literary Arts. Ruth Ozeki's award-winning novel A Tale for the Time Being tells the story of two strangers whose lives become connected across time and an ocean. Hear new episodes of Noteworthy Sundays at 1:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, OR or worldwide at allclassical.org. Learn more about Noteworthy and host Lynnsay Maynard: https://www.allclassical.org/programs/noteworthy/

The Hillsboro Public Library is so fortunate to have Renée Watson deliver the keynote address for the 2023 Hillsboro Reads Local Authors Celebration. Renée Watson is a #1 New York Times bestselling author, educator, and community activist. Her books have sold over one million copies. Her young adult novel, Piecing Me Together (Bloomsbury, 2017) received a Coretta Scott King Award and Newbery Honor. Her children's picture books and novels for teens have received several awards and international recognition. She has given readings and lectures at many renown places including the United Nations, the Library of Congress, and the U.S. Embassy in Japan and New Zealand. Her poetry and fiction centers around the experiences of Black girls and women, and explores themes of home, identity, and the intersections of race, class, and gender. This event is brought to you as part of Hillsboro Reads, our annual event alternating between local author celebrations and community-wide reading programs. The purpose of the Hillsboro Reads Local Authors Celebration is to engage the Hillsboro community in celebrating local creativity by introducing well-known and up-and-coming authors and creators to the community through discussion, story times, and workshops. We owe special thanks to the Friends of the Hillsboro Public Library and to the Library Foundation for making this and all of Hillsboro Reads possible.

If you think you have the best bowl of chili around, enter it in the Friends of the Wilson County Public Libraries and the Library Foundation's first-ever Chili Cook- Off for free! The tasty event is planned for Saturday, Feb. 18, from 12-3 p.m. in the Wilson County Expo & Community Center at 435 S.H. 97 E. in Floresville. Awards will be given to first through third place winners. If you are interested in being a judge, will get you a chili-tasting platter. While you're there, bid on silent auction items, enjoy cookie decorating, and purchase a treat from...Article Link

The San José Public Library Foundation provides advocacy, financial support, and leadership to public libraries and educational programs throughout San José to create an educated, equitable, and engaged community.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Laura Roesch from the Bay County Public Library Foundation joins us to share all the ways they are connecting children with books.  Listen as we discuss the benefits of reading on mental wellness, the impact books have on a child, and the many ways you can help support their wonderful programs.  To contact Laura or Bay FLOW, please email theflowforbay@gmail.com or message them on Facebook. Bay County Public Library Foundation Facebook PageBay County Public Library Foundation WebsiteVolunteer Sign-Up GeniusLittle Free LibrariesSuccess by 6 - United Way ProgramSouth Sound Reading Foundationhow ya doing? | Alignment Bay County

Whatcom County Library Foundation Development Director Jenn Rick tells us all about the Foundation and the wonderful things they do to support the library and the community.

In this episode, Scott introduces listeners to the Library Foundation SD, the non profit advocacy organization that supports the San Diego Public Library through various programs and fundraising efforts. Scott interviews Library Foundation SD staff, current and former board members, as well as SDPL staff to discuss the Foundation's impacts, history, and challenges. The Library Foundation SDLibrary ShopLGBTQIA+ Library ServicesMy First Library CardCareer Online High SchoolSD Access 4 All 6th Annual Matchbook Story ContestLogan Heights Library IDEA LabLibrary NExTFriends of the San Diego Public Library

127. The Public Library is such an integral part of good communities and good public service and that is especially true here in Los Angeles. We have an incredible library system here and we want to encourage everyone in our city to go out there and take advantage of this awesome free resource meant for the whole community. Our guest today is a perfect representative to motivate us to go out and explore the Library. Todd Lerew works with the Library Foundation of Los Angeles and the LA Public Library. Todd is going to talk about his work with the foundation and the LA Public Library, some really cool exhibits they have going on right now, some history of the magnificent historic landmark Central Library downtown and some really cool hacks and free perks you get access to by having a Library card that most people don't even know about. You can find out more about the LA Public Library on their Instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/lapubliclibrary/ or on their Website: https://lapl.org/ For more information about the LA Public Library Foundation https://lfla.org/  You can find more LifeHacksLA at: www.lifehacksla.com and www.instagram.com/lifehacksla  To join the LA Hackers Club go to:  http://lifehacksla.com/jointheclub  This episode was edited by Jaconell Mouton from Creative Wave. https://jaconellmouton.com/  Associate Producer: Michelle Mink from LA Dreaming. https://ladreaming.com/ --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lifehacksla/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/lifehacksla/support

Francene Marie interviews the energetic and beautiful Maggie Bean! Maggie is the Marketing and Communication Specialist with Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation. Your Book Club can compete for bragging rights and so much more. Listen how to signup or visit: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Foundation  This is the first-ever competition for local book clubs — “Book Club Madness”. The Library Foundation promotes literacy, community engagements, and inspires book club members in Mecklenburg County.

 The writer Zora Neal Hurston said, “Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose.” In this episode of “https://open.spotify.com/show/3ZbGCz99xF3lIFdh2Ze3pU (Inside the Writer's Head),” The Library Foundation's 2022 Writer-in-Residence Pauletta Hansel talks with three Cincinnati authors who have produced remarkable books in three very different genres, each using research as a key ingredient. Listen in as these “curious” authors read from their books and talk about their process. 

Dr. Joe Abraham and Joan Wingate are both enthusiastic and tireless supporters of our Lafayette Parish library system. They joined us to discuss their mission to instill a love of reading in our children and families and to emphasize the importance of citizens' support of our library system so that we can continue to offer free and equal access of materials to all residents, 24/7. Joe is President of the Lafayette Parish Library Foundation. He's a physician, research biologist, and the award-winning author of Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: From Alexander to Hitler to the Corporation. Joan has served on the Foundation in various positions, leading ‘Lafayette Loves Libraries,' as president, and currently serves on the Library Board of Control, the governing body of Lafayette Parish Libraries. The foundation supplements taxpayer funding of our libraries by encouraging private donations that provide books and services and fund special programs. Its sister organization, Friends of the Library, has raised $1 million over the past 40 years. With the library being in the news so much, it seemed like a good time to be reminded about the importance of having a viable library system that is accessible to everyone, no matter their age or socioeconomic background. "It's important to raise awareness of our public library's needs and what we can do to support it. In 2002 when the library tax was passed (to support a 20-year plan to build regional branches and refurbish the Main branch), we got busy and focused on building the new sites. We know we also need to educate the public as to the many resources the library offers and the importance of reading. We want to be able to offer free and equal access, 24/7, to all of our resources." Joan Wingate, photo by Leslie Westbrook of The Advocate. Lafayette Parish is blessed with an award-winning library system, having received the coveted James O. Modisette Award for Public Libraries in 2020. It is the highest honor that a public library can receive in Louisiana. And its private donors are generous: almost every year, Lafayette is #1 in private donations made through Friends of the Library and the Foundation. Yet, if you compare Lafayette Parish's library public funding to the other eight metropolitan areas of Louisiana, it is dead last. The library staff members are efficient and effective in what they do in running its nine branches (four regional, the Main Library, smaller branches, plus the Bookmobile). Per capita, Lafayette sees more of its resources (books, movies, digital materials, etc.) checked out than any other metropolitan area in the state, even compared to New Orleans and Baton Rouge. People flock to the libraries for all sorts of purposes; they study for exams, get access to the internet, participate in the various programs put on, or reserve meeting rooms that are free for use by the public. On 2022's opening day of the annual Summer Reading Challenge, approximately 1000 children participated, with pizza being served compliments of the Library Foundation. As Joan says, "The library is truly a safe haven, welcoming people to educate and discover themselves." Summer reading programs are designed to encourage students to keep reading during the summer months as a fun and easy way to prevent a decline in reading achievement. With the 2022 Oceans of Possibilities Summer Reading Challenge, all participants have been encouraged to reach a personal goal of 600 minutes and a combined community goal of 2,000,000 minutes read or activities participated in from June 1 to July 31. Prizes are awarded for every 600 minutes of reading and a grand prize will be awarded. Controversies over the past few years relating to programming displays have resulted in the library being in the middle of a political arena. It has returned to its original mission: a focus on reading and the joy of reading. Book displays now highlight mysteries, summer reading selections,

On June 2 at 7 p.m. at the Austin Central Library, the Library Foundation and the PEN America Austin Chapter are partnering to host a discussion about The 1619 Project and free speech. I interviewed Timothy Staley, Executive Director of the Library Foundation and Jennifer M. Wilks, an English professor and director of the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas, who will moderate the discussion.  The program, entitled The 1619 Project: Who's Afraid of Black Books?, will feature two contributors to The 1619 Project: acclaimed author ZZ Packer and award-winning poet Danez Smith.  More information on the event is available at https://austinlibrary.org/at-central/.Diverse Voices Book Review Social Media:Facebook - @diversevoicesbookreviewInstagram - @diverse_voices_book_reviewTwitter - @diversebookshayEmail: hbh@diversevoicesbookreview.comWeb site: https://diversevoicesbookreview.wordpress.com/ 

Crain's contributor Steve Johnson talks with host Amy Guth about Springfield's Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum. After many years of issues, the foundation that supports the institution has split off with a new focus. Plus: AbbVie braces for copycats of its longtime blockbuster Humira; after the Amita Health split, the former partners start rebranding; Napleton Auto fined millions in racial discrimination case; and congress seeks Amazon's labor-practice records after tornado that killed six employees.

Pittsylvania County Public Library Director Lisa Tuite joins the show to talk about renovations to the Gretna Branch of the library. This project is the result of approximately $500,000 in contributions from the Board of Supervisors and $450,000 that was fundraised by the Library Foundation. Lisa highlights the different phases of the renovations, talks about future outdoor enhancement projects, and explains the importance of this project for the community. 

This week on R-Town, Nicole Nfonoyim-Hara chats with the President of the Rochester NAACP Wale Elegbede about the upcoming Black History Month Speaker Series. Danielle Teal visits with Chef Eman Abdulmuaty from SETO Bakery. We meet Rochester piano teacher Mackenzie Roberts, and head back to Gray Duck Theater & Coffeehouse to chat with Andy Smith. Lastly, we meet Brenda Kardock, Adam Dickinson, and Catherine Davis with the Rochester Public Library Foundation. (MPTA, Legacy, KSMQ, 2-4-22) Connect with us! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KSMQPBS/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ksmqtv/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/KSMQ #RTown Website: http://ksmq.org/rtown R-Town, the show about Rochester, is brought to you in part by the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund and the citizens of Minnesota, and the members of KSMQ Public Television. Thank you!

Nicole Neeman Brady's the CEO and Director of Sustainable Development Acquisition i Corp, a public benefit corporation and pending B Corp whose mission is to identify and partner with growth-oriented companies that are advancing the UN's sustainable development goals. She also serves on numerous boards, including California Resource Corporation, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, and various companies connected to Renewable Resources Group. Before this, Nicole was the Director of Energy Procurement at Southern California Edison – a $5 billion business - and worked at Twentieth Century Fox, Goldman Sachs, with a Masters Degree from Harvard Business School. Listen in as top executive coach Lacey Leone McLaughlin and her clients tell the stories and learnings they wish they had known then. Music courtesy of @blkmktmusic

Learn More about the Designing Your Life Program here Is it time to get creative? Consistent involvement in the arts offers multiple benefits, including for your health and well-being. Our guest, Teresa Bonner, Executive Director of Aroha Philanthropies, explains how creative pursuits in retirement can enrich your life. We discuss: Her mission in her encore career Gene Cohen's work at George Washington University on aging and creativity The range of artistic endeavors she sees people engaging with in mid-to-later life The challenges people face when they leave the workplace and how involvement with the arts is useful The benefits of intergenerational arts programs How getting involved with the arts can help caregivers Her advice for someone who doesn't think they're a creative person The benefit of being a novice in an artistic activity How to get started with a creative activity _________________________ Bio Teresa Bonner is a frequent speaker on philanthropy, most recently to California and Minnesota affiliates of the Family Firm Institute, estate planning councils and planned giving councils. For Aroha Philanthropies, Teresa leads the foundation and directs efforts to seed, develop, expand and advocate for creative aging programs across the country. She has created cohorts of arts organizations and senior-serving organizations that have developed creative aging programs and managed the evaluation of these programs nationally. Teresa has spoken about creative aging at conferences of Grantmakers in the Arts, Grantmakers in Aging, the American Society on Aging, the Gerontological Society of America, the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, the National Guild for Community Arts Education and other organizations. Prior to joining Family Philanthropy Advisors in 2008, Teresa was Senior Vice President and head of Business Development and Charitable Services for U.S. Bank's Private Client Group, where she oversaw new business development and services offered to high-net-worth clients, including private foundation services, grantmaking, endowment management and charitable services. In addition to her foundation management roles, Teresa has served as Executive Director of Milkweed Editions, an acclaimed nonprofit literary publisher, and as Executive Director of the Library Foundation of Hennepin County, where she directed planning and implementation of marketing, fundraising, promotional, programming, public relations, grant administration and volunteer functions for one of the country's largest library systems.  Prior to her work in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector, Teresa was a partner in the Minneapolis law firm of Lindquist and Vennum. Between 2001 and 2007, Teresa chaired the board of directors of MacPhail Center for Music, one of the country's largest community music schools, where she led the transformation of that organization's governance, successfully completed a major capital campaign for the creation of a new flagship facility, and chaired the Center's grand opening celebrations.  She has served on several other nonprofit boards and has been a frequent panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts.  Teresa won the “Woman Changemaker” award from the Minneapolis St. Paul Business Journal in 2004. ______________________ For More on Teresa Bonner Aroha Philanthropies ______________________ Wise Quotes  On Creativity & Aging "Gene Cohen was such a proponent of the concept that as we get older our capacity for creativity increases. It doesn't decrease as so many of us were taught when we were younger. And so what he did working with The National Endowment for the Arts, [was] a major study on what happened to older adults who participated in some professionally run arts learning programs. And what he found was that there were a whole array of benefits - mental, emotional, and physical - that came from this kind of activity.

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If you wish to maintain health and longevity as you age, it may be helpful to include a special muscle group in your workout: your creative muscles.  According to ongoing studies, creativity is essential for healthy aging. Engaging in creative activities like singing, theater, and visual art may help older people feel better. Further, creativity, linked to the personality characteristic of openness, can help people live longer. In this  episode of This Is Getting Old: Moving Towards An Age-Friendly World, we're privileged to have Teresa  Bonner, the Executive Director of Aroha Philanthropies. Join us as we share meaningful conversations about creative aging and how it sparks joy, connection, and purpose among older adults.  Part One Of 'Creative Aging Sparks Joy, Connection, Purpose' Aroha Philanthropies And Creative Aging “Creativity is hardly the exclusive province of youth. It can blossom at any age—and in fact, it can bloom with more depth and richness in older adults because their vast stores inform it of knowledge and experience.”          —Dr. Gene Cohen, Geriatric Psychiatrist These words of Dr. Gene Cohen, the founding Director of The George Washington University's Center for Aging, Health and Humanities (for which I am the current Director), is Aroha Philanthropies' motivation in advocating creativity in aging. According to Dr. Cohen's landmark report, 85% of older adults are community-based, are aging well,  can learn, be creative, and be so much more. With this visions in mind, Aroha Philanthropies are on a mission to expand creative aging programs nationally. They're engaged in funded training for organizations to learn how to make successful programs for older adults—to learn an art form over time and to get better and better as they learn from a teaching artist.  Furthermore, Aroha Philanthropies has built national partnerships with the American Alliance of Museums, including botanical gardens, science museums, etc., to offer creative programs for older adults. This partnership has called on museums of all kinds around the country to develop creative aging programs and actively work against ageism in their institutions. What's even more promising is that they've tapped on The National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, where they've funded 36 state programs to develop and/or expand creative aging. Aroha Philanthropies' efforts in evangelizing about the benefits of getting involved in the arts were not in vain. What they've learned from almost 2 000 participant survey responses is that after engaging in creative aging programs, older adults; Developed relationships Learned various art forms Became cognitively and socially engaged Made meaningful social connections through art-making "Creative aging programs were highly effective at helping older adults grow artistically, mentally, and socially. 75% of 2,000 older adults reported that their mental engagement had increased because of taking creative classes." Teresa  Bonner,  Executive Director of Aroha Philanthropies How Do You Define Creative Aging? Creative aging is about learning an art form over time in a supportive environment. Such a supportive environment allows older adults to grow and become creative, more artistic and increase their social connections and social network. It is a broad topic that includes everything from programs designed to provide help for people suffering from diseases such as dementia to programs for caregivers who help with art therapy programs.  The learning and connection, and relationship building happen through the work of the teaching artist. In part, these teaching artists know how to have conversations with people and generate conversations among them through the art form.  That's the heart of successful creative aging programs. Older adults are learning over time from a teaching artist; they get better and make new friends.  Examples of the classes offered in creative aging programs are: Acting  Writing Drawing Dancing Sculpture Mask making Opera singing Learning graffiti Short Video Filming  Drumming and beating Technical and historical aspects Choir and theatre arts performing Weaving where they also know about the  history and the people What Do You Consider To Be A Supportive Environment? Supportive environments for creative aging provides opportunities for those who are 55 and better to access and benefit from arts programming designed to teach older Americans an art form over time. Aroha Philanthropies want to expand these opportunities through increased investment in creative aging programs. Part Two Of 'Creative Aging Sparks Joy, Connection, Purpose' Elements That A Thriving Creative Aging Program Have As a safe space for being creative, a successful creative aging program is:    Designed To Meet The Express Needs And Interests Of Older Adults   Rather than assuming that older adults don't have much capacity, they're allowed to come together and have rich stories to share. They learn new skills, get involved in new activities, and enhance their own lived experience    They Are Led By Teaching Artists   Teaching artists are professional, working artists who are also skilled in arts education. They create space for participants to offer feedback to one another, discuss their work, talk about memories, and talk about dreams.  It's a two-way process, which is an essential aspect of community building among participants. Teaching artists are part of the secret sauce; they create that chocolate for the brain!    Experiential And Sequential   A successful creative aging program is experiential—they're more hands-on. At the same time, it is sequential, meaning older adults learn to create over time. They're not just learning about the great masters of the art; they're making the art themselves.  Moreover, each class builds on the skills they learned in the prior classes. Essentially, these are often so interesting to older adults.     Builds Social Interaction And Engagement    In every creative aging, session participants are encouraged to share their experiences and memories. They discuss their work and offer feedback, which is an excellent way for people to begin building their social network.   Celebrate Achievements    The common theme of successful creative aging programs is the celebration of the participants' creations. The culminating activity is open to friends, family, and sometimes the public. This allows friends, family, and others in the community to see older adults in a new light. These are the kinds of things that move us from seeing an older adult as old and seeing them as a person and creative individual.  “The financial burden of social isolation for older adults is at 6.7 billion dollars because social isolation produces significant negative health impacts. Creative aging programs are a societal benefit in addition to an individual and community benefit. There are all kinds of great reasons that creative aging should be going forward all over the country.” -Teresa Bonner,  Executive Director of Aroha Philanthropies What Are The Benefits Of Being Part Of A Creative Community? Creative aging helps older Americans combat social isolation, an increasing problem for America's growing older population, especially throughout the pandemic. Furthermore, doing the celebrations, sharing what is created, and building connections are solid and powerful pieces of combating ageism. We see an older adult as a person—not like an older person—a person who's had a whole life of experiences. The Power Of Connecting Through Art When you're working through the art form, you are vulnerable. Creative aging is not like having a cup of coffee after choir practice. It's where you're talking about your own life, dreams, and interests, which naturally leads to relationships among people that can be important.  Arts are a connecting point in a time where the connection is essential. Older artists find joy, purpose, community, and creativity in these programs. How Do You Find A Creative Art + Aging Group In Your Area?  There are many resources for learning about Creative Aging. If you're interested, you can check on the following; Aroha Philanthropies Website:  aroha philanthropies.org Facebook: www.facebook.com/arohaphilanthropies Twitter: www.twitter.com/ArohaPhil Instagram: @arohaphilanthropies Lifetime Arts-which provides consulting and training on how to run creative aging programs. Creative Aging Resource- a rich website devoted to creative aging,  also developed by Lifetime Arts National Assembly of State Art Agencies-They offered grant programs this year and awarded funds to 36 states that are either developing creative aging programs or want to create them and wish to learn about them.  The American Alliance of Museums-They had put out a significant report calling on museums to ethically and strategically prioritize developing creative aging programs that work with older adults differently. Countering Isolation with Creativity About Teresa Bonner, Executive Director, Aroha Philanthropies: Teresa Bonner brings more than thirty years of professional experience in philanthropy, foundation, and nonprofit leadership to her role as Executive Director for Aroha Philanthropies. She is a frequent presenter on philanthropy and creative aging, including sessions at the National Assembly of State Arts Agencies, Grantmakers in the Arts, Grantmakers in Aging, Americans for the Arts, Philanthropy New York, and the American Society on Aging. Teresa previously served as Director of the U.S. Bancorp Foundation. She managed $20 million in Foundation grantmaking annually. She led the company's community relations activities, the Piper Jaffray Foundation, and two nonprofit organizations, Milkweed Editions and the Library Foundation of Hennepin County. Arts and cultural programs have long been a significant focus of her professional experience and a personal passion. She is a principal in Family Philanthropy Advisors, with offices in Minneapolis and the Bay Area. Teresa graduated magna cum laude from the University of North Dakota with a degree in journalism. After completing Law School at the University of Minnesota, she clerked for the Hon. Gerald Heaney of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit and was a partner at the Minneapolis law firm of Lindquist and Vennum before moving to the nonprofit sector. About Melissa Batchelor, PhD, RN, FNP-BC, FGSA, FAAN: I earned my Bachelor of Science in Nursing ('96) and Master of Science in Nursing ('00) as a Family Nurse Practitioner (FNP) from the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) School of Nursing (SON). I genuinely enjoy working with the complex medical needs of older adults. I worked full-time for five years as an FNP in geriatric primary care across many long-term care settings (skilled nursing homes, assisted living, home, and office visits), then transitioned into academic nursing in 2005, joining the faculty at UNCW SON lecturer. I obtained my Ph.D. in Nursing and a post-master's Certificate in Nursing Education from the Medical University of South Carolina College of Nursing ('11). I then joined the faculty at Duke University School of Nursing as an Assistant Professor. My family moved to northern Virginia in 2015 and led to me joining the George Washington University (GW) School of Nursing faculty in 2018 as a (tenured) Associate Professor. I am also the Director of the GW Center for Aging, Health, and Humanities. Please find out more about her work at https://melissabphd.com/.

Tune in to hear EIG Director of Community Outreach, Jill Economou, discuss organizations that provide Milwaukee community events, academic support, safekeeping of local history and are advocates for libraries, literacy and lifelong learning. Guests this week include: Ryan Daniels | Milwaukee Public Library Foundation Shannon Sweek | Friends of Milwaukee Public Library

Tune in to hear EIG Director of Community Outreach, Jill Economou, discuss organizations that provide Milwaukee community events, academic support, safekeeping of local history and are advocates for libraries, literacy and lifelong learning. Guests this week include: Ryan Daniels | Milwaukee Public Library Foundation Shannon Sweek | Friends of Milwaukee Public Library

Books, books and more books. Even more books and stay tuned for a brand new Bookmobile! Today we have our friends of the Aurora Public Library, Illinois (Santori Library) Foundation on to discuss Lace Up For Literacy. Here's the news! - Saturday September 18th from 9 to 11 am at the Santori Library there will be a free community shredding event. This is hosted by the KCT Credit Union and the Aurora Public Library. This will be a safe, secure and contactless event. Fight identity theft and endless clutter at home by bringing in your personal documents to have them safely shredded. This will be held at the downtown Aurora Santori branch, 101 S. River Street. Shout out! #september - Aurora Noon Lions will hold a pork-chop dinner fundraiser Wednesday, Sept. 22. The event will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Luigi's Pizza and Fun Center, 732 Prairie St. in Aurora. The public is invited. Patrons may pick up dinners in a drive-thru or eat in the center. Proceeds will benefit Aurora-based Cities in Schools, a nonprofit that helps students succeed in school and life. Formerly called Communities in Schools, CIS provides school supplies, winter coats, school-day counseling services and after-school homework help, snacks and enrichment activities at 28 area schools. In August, CIS distributed 2,500 back-to-school kits containing school supplies and fruit at a drive-thru in Phillips Park. Diners may choose from two pork chops with baked beans, coleslaw, applesauce, roll and butter and a cookie or a chicken dinner with sides. Tickets are $14 at the door and from Lions members. Advance orders may be placed at https://www.auroranoonlions.org/ or https://luigispizzaandfuncenter.com/ - Lastly, don't forget to Lace Up For Literacy from August 30th to September 6th. The proceeds will benefit a new and modern Bookmobile and more literacy resources for children. To register click this link: https://e.givesmart.com/events/mNd/ That's a wrap for today's news, we hope you all enjoyed the show! Don't forget to share your Aurora Bookmobile photos, stories and history with us at goodmorningaurorail@gmail.com Your submission and share could be part of new Aurora history in an updated Bookmobile. Thank you to our community partners of the Aurora Public Library Foundation and listeners like you. Have a great day and tune in tomorrow for another episode of Jenettesplaining! Be blessed!

The Austin Youth Poet Laureate program has landed in Austin! We here at Host Publications are thrilled to partner with the Library Foundation and the National Youth Poet Laureate Program led by Urban Word, with additional support from the Austin Public Library, Creative Learning Initiative, and Learn All The Time.  In this episode, we discuss the details of this exciting new program for young writers in Austin, and all of the benefits that it offers them, for their writing, their confidence, and for their engagement with their communities.  We had the opportunity to speak with the inaugural Teaching Artists who ran the application workshops this year, to hear about their experiences in the workshops and to get a better sense of what this program will offer young writers in Austin.    We spoke with Bianca Perez: (she/her) Bianca was born and raised in Mission, Texas – a small southern town bordering Mexico. She is currently an MFA Poetry candidate at Texas State University. Her poems have been published in The New York Quarterly, Re-side Magazine, Magma Poetry UK, ReclamationATX, Psst! Press' The Sappho Diaries, and East French Press. Forthcoming in The Ice Colony Anthology. She is also the co-host of a horror podcast with writer Stephanie Grossman. Her poetry centers on her Latin culture, spirituality, family, and womanhood. We also spoke with Steven Espada Dawson: (he/him) is a writer from East Los Angeles, currently working out of Austin. The son of a Mexican immigrant, he holds an MFA in poetry from Purdue University. He has served as poetry editor for Sycamore Review and Copper Nickel. Winner of the Barriss and Iola Mills Award and the Kneale Award, his poems have appeared recently or are forthcoming in The Adroit Journal, Best New Poets 2020, Colorado Review, Copper Nickel, Gulf Coast, Hobart, Kenyon Review Online, Split Lip Magazine, and Waxwing, among other journals.   We want to encourage any and all interested folks to apply for the Youth Poet Laureate position this year by Sunday, August 15, 2021, at 11:59pm, or to take the Application Workshops next year for a fully immersive creative experience. Head on over to the Library Foundation's website for more information on how to apply, and follow Library Foundation ATX and Host Publications on social media for updates on deadlines, the inaugural winner, readings and the forthcoming chapbook! 

We welcome Joan Savoy and Andrew Duhon of the Lafayette Public Library Foundation. Joan is the current President of the Foundation and Andrew is a longtime volunteer on behalf of the public library, having also served twice as President on the Library Board of Control. The Foundation is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization created in 1992 that supplements taxpayer funding of our libraries by encouraging private donations and endowments that provide books and services and fund special programs and projects. More than $200,000 has been raised over the years and monies have been dedicated to library improvements such as enhancing the entrance to the children's wing in the Main Library, "wrapping" the bookmobile and purchasing books for the libraries. Donors can create an endowment fund in the name of a family member, individual, or business organization with a minimum contribution of $100; once the endowment is fully funded at $1,000, one book will be donated annually in perpetuity in honor of the named endowment. The foundation's largest fundraiser is the annual luncheon which highlights local authors and awards proponents of the library system. The theme of this year's event was “The Future Is Local!” where Second Harvest Food Bank was honored with the Foundation Award and Andrew Duhon received the President's Award. Since 1992, the Lafayette Public Library Foundation has purchased over 10,000 books for our libraries through private donations.  Through the endowment program, the foundation has established a continuous, long-term revenue stream for the purchase of new books and media for the library. 'The Foundation is currently focused on educating the community on the many services offered by the public library system. With a 1.8 mill property tax renewal on the October 9, 2021 ballot, which raises approximately $4 million a year, Discover Lafayette is proud to share the many ways our public libraries sustain our quality of life. We also want to inform the public on the importance of adequate funding and acknowledge the many volunteers who work to maintain this community asset. We thank Joan and Andrew, along with their peers, for the selfless time they give to our library system. The Lafayette Public Library System has nine locations to serve the citizens of Lafayette Parish. People of all ages and demographics utilize the library daily and enjoy its free Wi-Fi, meeting spaces, and of course, the ability to check out books and digital resources.  Makerspaces and Tech Labs offer the use of 3D printers and classes in digital media, paper and textile arts, electronics, and fabrication. Adults can receive free assistance from library staff in crafting or updating their resumes. During 2018-2019, over 1 million people visited the Lafayette Public libraries, 13,338 library cards were issued, and over 2 million materials were checked out (including digital resources). During the COVID shutdown, people flocked to the libraries to use to take advantage of the free computers and Wi-Fi; the volume of materials checked out went up and the library responded to the crisis by offering a 23% increase in programming. Of course, while the library offers 'free' services and resources to the public, its annual budget of $12 million must be met to sustain operations. Annual tax revenue is now approximately $11 million, resulting in a $1 million shortfall each year. Just a few short years ago, the library's reserve fund was flush with a balance of $40 million. Plans were underway to build a much-needed Northeast Lafayette Parish Regional Library with the intent to tie services into underperforming schools such as Northside High, JW Faulk, and NP Moss. Additions to public meeting space at regional libraries were in the works. The Board of Control had endeavored to be good stewards with the public funds, building four new regional libraries with a combination of cash and bond revenues while maintaining a healthy cash res...

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Right Response Consulting works with law enforcement, businesses and educational institutions on training & investigations of sexual assault, harassment & domestic/workplace violence. We had the opportunity to chat with cofounder and legal prosecutor, Kathryn Marsh. She worked for 17 years with Washington DC's SVU as well as with sex abuse survivors prosecuting sex crime cases. One thing is for sure, it pays to know the law. Her stories were heartbreaking but her advice is invaluable for everyone.BiographyKathryn Marsh is the Co-Founder of Right Response Consulting (RRC) and a career prosecutor of seventeen years. She presently serves as Special Counsel, Assistant Chief of the Special Victims Family Violence Unit and the Legislative Co-Chair for the State’s Attorney’s Office in Prince George’s County, Maryland. For the past twelve years Ms. Marsh has specialized in the field of child abuse and sexual assault cases. Mrs. Marsh also functions as professional trainer for Assistant State’s Attorneys and staff, as well as for law enforcement, community organizations, state organizations and other legal professionals. She has served on several National and State Task Forces and has been asked to assist in drafting legislation and has been called on to testify on behalf of criminal legislation before the Maryland legislature for a number of years. Ms. Marsh has also worked as an adjunct professor of Criminal Law for the University of Maryland University Campus from 2009-2019, and is a Current Associate Professor with the National Criminal Justice Training Center of Fox Valley Technical College. In addition to her work with the in the criminal law field, Ms. Marsh also serves on many community boards. She is currently the Treasurer of the Calvert County Commission for Women and sits on the Board of Directors for the Library Foundation of Calvert County, and the Optimists of Calvert County. Mrs. Marsh has been recognized for her work with children and sexual assault prosecution numerous times, she was named one of Maryland’s Top 100 women in 2019, received the Collaborative for Children & Youth’s Champion of Children award and the Crisis Intervention Center’s Domestic Violence POWER award in 2018.Right Response Consulting Social MediaWebsite: https://www.rightresponseconsulting.com/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nogreyzonerrc/Twitter: https://twitter.com/NoGreyZoneRRCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/nogreyzonerrc/Sex Positive Me Social MediaInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/spmthelunas/Twitter: https://twitter.com/SexPositiveMeFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/SexPositiveMe/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/sexpositivemeSubscribe (available on all platforms)iHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/966-sex-positive-me-29496726/Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sex-positive-me/id1197124228 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1D7hKQM7QSqjHsa0Z8RhI9?si=6pgmY2oKQxi5ndzD8Jdctg

Even though many people struggle to make ends meet during these trying times, especially on the financial side, today's chaotic situation revealed one unique character of humans: the desire to connect through giving. Jenny Marsh of the Vancouver Public Library Foundation proved this to be true when they launched a fundraising campaign to improve their building and support their transition to the digital realm. She shares with Douglas Nelson how they successfully raised money just by getting in touch with their cardholders and how the foundation's board leveraged philanthropy to acquire financial support from the government. Jenny also explains the one thing she did not expect to find when fundraising: a meaningful connection with people that even money cannot satisfy.

In this episode, Host editors Annar and Claire are joined by friend of the podcast, Kate Kelly. Kate is an incredible poet, editor and educator, and currently serves as the Programs Manager for The Library Foundation in Austin, Texas. In this episode, she introduces the lineup for this year's Mayor's Book Club Read Local campaign, featuring a list of over fifty books written by Austin authors this year. In 2020, the expansion of the Mayor's Book Club to include all books published by Austin authors promotes Austin's rich literary scene and, in particular, many Austin authors whose titles might not have gotten the attention they deserve due to COVID-19. Kate provides recommendations and insight into the Mayor's Book Club Read Local authors, books, workshops and book talks, as well as some key tips for how to be a happy, organized and mayor-quality human in these unprecedented times. You can check out the programming for The Mayor's Book Club at austinlibrary.org where you can sign up for all virtual events for free. To can see what else Kate is up to, including links to some of her published work, check out her website or follow her on Instagram @katekellytho

Todd Lerew, program manager for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, speak about his book Specific Museums of Greater Los Angeles. How Google Maps has been a surprising, but significant help to find the over 600 museums in the area. He has been hunting for sites on a mission to visit each an every one. We speak about a specific Fire Lookout Tower in San Bernardino and the variety of museums. Also, an interest in hyper local history seems to have something to do with age.https://theartword.com

Our guests Todd Lerew and Micah Silver talk about: museums, collecting, collections, archives, LAPL, Los Angeles Public Library, Library Foundation of Los Angeles, LFLA, the Central Library, the Goodhue Building, Specific Museums of Greater Los Angeles, Museum a Day, Have a Plan, What is a Museum?, museology, privilege, Open Hours, connoisseur, connoisseurship, audio, sound, music, audience, Cult, Airshow, constant war, Democracy, outcomes, failure, alternate worlds, awareness, democratic outputs, alternatives … and more! Todd Lerew is an artist and he is the Program manager at the Library Foundation of Los Angeles. He is the author of the book Specific Museums of Greater Los Angeles, illustrated by Juliana Wisdom and published by Tiny Splendor Press. He curated the show 21 Collections: Every Object has a Story which you can see at the central library in downtown Los Angeles until March 24th 2019. Micah Silver is an artist and writer living in Los Angeles. His book Figures in Air: Essays Toward a Philosophy of Audio is just going into its second printing with Inventory Press and you can pre-order copies now. Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller. And we go out with a track off of Ian Wellman's new release from Dragon's Eye Recordings from October 2018. The name of the album is: Susan's Last Breath Became the Chill in the Air and the Fog Over the City's Night Sky, and the name of the song is Darkest Hour

The Library Foundation of Cincinnati and Hamilton County's latest Writer-In-Residence chats about writing, reading, creativity, and more with special guests. Please review & subscribe wherever you listen to podcasts. #WIRcincy Music Credit: Kool Kats, Kevin MacLeod, incompetech.com. Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License.

Guest Liz Reeves, Director of the St. Louis Public Library Foundation, shares details on the wealth of programs and benefits available to everyone with a library card.

To Live and Dine in L.A. (Angel City Press)  Note: This event was previously scheduled for Wed, July 8th, at 7:30 pm, and has now been moved to Friday, July 17th, at 7:30 pm. We apologize for any inconvenience.  Tonight's event features the book To Live and Dine in L.A. by USC Professor Josh Kun with a Foreword by Chef Roy Choi.To Live and Dine in LA is a huge project of The Library Foundation of Los Angeles based on the Menu Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library. Central to the project are a major exhibition at the Central Library downtown and the book published by Angel City Press. Together, the exhibition and the book ask and address an important question: How did Los Angeles become the modern city the world watches? We know some of the answers all too well. Sunshine. Railroads. Hollywood. Freeways. But there's another often overlooked but especially delicious and revealing factor: food. Think veggie tacos and designer pizzas, hot dogs on sticks and burgers from golden arches, Cobb Salads and chocolate topped ice cream sundaes, not to mention the healthiest dishes on the planet. Ask anyone who has eaten in L.A.—the city shapes the tastes that predict how America eats. And it always has.  ​With more than 200 menus—some dating back to the nineteenth century—culled from thousands in the Menu Collection of the Los Angeles Public Library, To Live and Dine in L.A. ​is a visual feast of a book. In his detailed history, author Josh Kun riffs on what the food of a foodie city says about place and time; how some people eat big while others go hungry, and what that says about the past and today. Kun turns to chefs and cultural observers for their take on modern: Chef Roy Choi sits down long enough to say why he writes “some weirdass menus.” Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Jonathan Gold looks at food as theater, and museum curator Staci Steinberger considers the design of classic menus like Lawry's. Restaurateur Bricia Lopez follows a Oaxacan menu into the heart of Koreatown. The city's leading chefs remix vintage menus with a 21st century spin: Joachim Splichal, Nancy Silverton, Susan Feniger, Ricardo Diaz, Jazz Singsanong, Cynthia Hawkins, Micah Wexler, Ramiro Arvizu and Jaime Martin del Campo cook up the past with new flavors. And, of course, the menus delight: Tick Tock Tea Room, Brown Derby, Trumps, Slapsy Maxie's, Don the Beachcomber, and scores more.  Kun tackles the timely and critically important topic of food justice, and shows how vintage menus teach us about more than just what's tasty, and serve as guides to the politics, economics, and sociology of eating. To Live and Dine in L.A. ​is the first book of its kind—the definitive way to read a menu for more than just what to order. It's about how to live. And how to dine. In L.A. Spread the word and join the conversation about Los Angeles' food history online by tagging your tweets and posts with #ToLiveandDineLA. Josh Kun ​is an Associate Professor in the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California. His previous collaboration with L.A. Public Library was the award­-winning book and exhibition Songs in the Key of Los Angeles. He has written for the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and many other publications. He is author and an editor of several books, including Audiotopia: Music, Race, and America, Tijuana Dreaming: Life and Art at the Global Border, and Black and Brown Los Angeles: Beyond Conflict and Coalition. As a curator he has worked with the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles, Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, Santa Monica Museum of Art, and the National Museum of Jewish History in Philadelphia. Kun curated Songs in the Key of L.A. in 2013 and To Live and Dine in L.A. in 2015, both exhibitions that originated at Los Angeles Central Library galleries. Roy Choi was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and went on to cook at the internationally acclaimed Le Bernardin. He was named Best New Chef by Food and Wine in 2010. Choi is the co-owner, co-founder, and chef of Kogi BBQ, as well as the restaurants Chego!, A-Frame, Sunny Spot and POT. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

Pleasantville (Harper)  One of Skylight Books' favorite local authors Attica Locke returns with her most ambitious novel to date, taking on business corruption, scheming local politicians and murder in Pleasantville, which brings back Black Water Rising's morally conflicted environmental attorney Jay Porter. It's now 1996, fifteen years since Black Water Rising, and Porter is struggling to cope with a family tragedy.  He's decided to quit the law after he wraps up his final case: representing the citizens of Pleasantville, a storied neighborhood on the north side of Houston, against the chemical giant ProFerma. Houston's mayoral election is pending, and Pleasantville is a key electoral district due to the long-time organizing efforts of its now elderly “patriarch” Sam Hathorne. Its endorsement can make or break a candidate's chances. Sam's son, Axel, Houston's former police chief and a favorite of Pleasantville faces a run-off against the city's current District Attorney, Sandra Wolcott. Then Axel's nephew, Neal, is arrested for the murder of a young woman who disappeared while campaigning in Pleasantville. Sam coerces Jay into serving as Neal's defense attorney, even though Jay insists he's not qualified. As he tries to untangle the complicated knot of politics, lies, and family secrets at the heart of the Hathorne campaign, Jay finds that the case puts an entire electoral process on trial, revealing the lengths to which those with power are willing to go to keep it. Attica Locke's first novel, Black Water Rising, was nominated for a 2010 Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, as well as a Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was short-listed for the prestigious Orange Prize in the UK (now the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction).  Her second book, The Cutting Season, published by Dennis Lehane books, is a national bestseller, and, like her debut, was a finalist for the Hurston-Wright Legacy Award.  It was also named an Honor Book by the Black Caucus of the American Library Association, was long-listed for the Chautauqua Prize, and is the 2013 winner of the Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence, the largest literary prize for African-Americans. A graduate of Northwestern University, Locke was a fellow at the Sundance Institute's Feature Filmmakers Lab and had planned a career as a movie director, but got derailed along the way, spending many years as a screenwriter-for-hire.  She wrote scripts for Paramount, Warner Bros, Disney, Twentieth Century Fox, Jerry Bruckheimer Films, HBO, and Dreamworks.  Highly paid, yet unproduced, Locke grew restless with the Hollywood studio system. “There were days I felt like I was writing solely for the pleasure of a group of studio execs, all with a fifteen-mile radius of Burbank, California, that my work had no meaning beyond that.”  In 2005, she gave herself one year to change this – during which she wrote the first draft of Black Water Rising.  “Besides motherhood, it was the single most transformative experience of my life.” After two books, she felt pulled toward Hollywood again, explicitly television, where great drama is being produced “like I haven't seen in my lifetime.”  She is currently co-producer and writer on the upcoming Fox drama, Empire, created by Lee Daniels (The Butler, Precious) and Danny Strong (Game Change, The Hunger Games) and premiering in January 2015. Locke is a member of the academy for the Folio Prize in the UK and is also on the board of directors for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles.   A native of Houston, Texas, Attica lives in Los Angeles, California, with her husband and daughter.

Holly McKenna., President of the Albany Public Library Foundation talks about the Albany Public Library event on Saturday November 15, whose guests include Paul Grondahl, William Kennedy and Amy Amy Biancolli

This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead Books) Join us tonight for a very special reading from one of our generation's most celebrated writers, Junot Diaz! Junot is visiting Los Angeles for the Library Foundation of Los Angeles' 22nd Anniversary Celebration, during which he will receive the Los Angeles Public Library's 2014 Literary Award. To learn more about the work of the Library Foundation, visit lfla.org. Junot Díaz's first book, Drown, established him as a major new writer with “the dispassionate eye of a journalist and the tongue of a poet” (Newsweek). His first novel, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, was a literary sensation, topping best-of-the-year lists and winning a host of major awards, including the Pulitzer Prize.  Now Díaz turns his remarkable talent to the haunting, impossible power of love—obsessive love, illicit love, fading love, maternal love. This Is How You Lose Her (Riverhead) is one of the most celebrated books of last year. In prose that is endlessly energetic, inventive, tender, and funny, Díaz's stories lay bare the infinite longing and inevitable weakness of the human heart. They remind us that passion always triumphs over experience, and that “the half-life of love is forever.” At the heart of these stories is the irrepressible, irresistible Yunior, a young hardhead whose longing for love is equaled only by his recklessness—and by the extraordinary women he loves and loses: artistic Alma; the aging Miss Lora; Magdalena, who thinks all Dominican men are cheaters; and the love of his life, whose heartbreak ultimately becomes his own.  Praise for This Is How You Lose Her "Junot Diaz writes in an idiom so electrifying and distinct it's practically an act of aggression, at once enthralling, even erotic in its assertion of sudden intimacy... [It is] a syncopated swagger-step between opacity and transparency, exclusion and inclusion, defiance and desire... His prose style is so irresistible, so sheerly entertaining, it risks blinding readers to its larger offerings. Yet he weds form so ideally to content that instead of blinding us, it becomes the very lens through which we can see the joy and suffering of the signature Diaz subject: what it means to belong to a diaspora, to live out the possibilities and ambiguities of perpetual insider/outsider status." -"The New York Times Book Review "  "Nobody does scrappy, sassy, twice-the-speed of sound dialogue better than Junot Diaz. His exuberant short story collection, called This Is How You Lose Her, charts the lives of Dominican immigrants for whom the promise of America comes down to a minimum-wage paycheck, an occasional walk to a movie in a mall and the momentary escape of a grappling in bed." -Maureen Corrigan, NPR  "Exhibits the potent blend of literary eloquence and street cred that earned him a Pulitzer Prize... Diaz's prose is vulgar, brave, and poetic." -"O Magazine"  "Searing, irresistible new stories... It's a harsh world Diaz conjures but one filled also with beauty and humor and buoyed by the stubborn resilience of the human spirit." -"People "   Junot Diaz was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in New Jersey. He is the author of the critically acclaimed Drown; The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and This Is How You Lose Her, a New York Times bestseller and National Book Award finalist. He is the recipient of a MacArthur "Genius" Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Dayton Literary Peace Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship, and PEN/O. Henry Award. A graduate of Rutgers College, Diaz is currently the fiction editor at Boston Review and the Rudge and Nancy Allen Professor of Writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.