Summer Reading Programs
for Children & Young Adults
Help librarians better
serve Ashland!
WE ARE FRIENDS TO AN OPEN LIBRARY - THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY.
ASHLAND LIBRARY HOURS:
Mon 10 - 8
Tues and Wed 10 - 6
Thurs and Sat 12 - 5
Sun 12 - 4
410 Siskiyou Boulevard
Ashland, Oregon 97520
541-774-6996
Special Events at the Ashland Library:
Celebrate May Day on
Saturday May 3!
Come to the Ashland
Public Library on Saturday May 3 noon-4pm to celebrate our public library!
Join us as we thank the children and adults who mobilized our community to
re-open the Ashland Public Library. There'll be May baskets, poetry readings,
storytelling, a theremin to play, sidewalk chalk and Murray Huggin's bagpipes
to end the day. Write ribbons of good will and your good wishes will fly in the wind.
For more information call the Ashland Public Library at 774-6996.
Author Night at the Library, Monday, May 5, from 7 to 8 pm, welcomes anyone who
wants to write a letter. The Ashland Branch Library joins the Welcome Home Project
in asking the community to write letters to veterans. We encourage everyone to leave
their politics behind and write a letter to a veteran or their family. This evening
people can gather to write and possibly share their letters. The letters will be
distributed to veterans at a special presentation at the Bowmer Theatre on Memorial Day.
The Friends of the Ashland Public Library welcome all to the Ashland Library, 410 Siskiyou
Blvd. For more information please call 774-6996.
Storytimes -
happen regularly at the library. Monday nights from 6:30-7:00 pm, Tuesdays
from 11:30-12 noon, Wednesday from 10:30-11:00 am and a special program for
babies and wobblers on Tuesdays from 10:30-11:00 am
Summer Reading -
for children and teens - programs, prizes, storytellers - check it out.
Jackson County
Reads- What happens when everyone in a community reads the same book?
Link to Jackson County Library
Services (schedule information, services, etc.)
Click here.
Books On Sale: Prices will vary.Novels, Self-Help, Travel,
Sports, Young Adult, Children, Reference, Drama, Art, History,
Foreign Language and more!
Paperback Books:
Hardback Books:
Special Books:
Tightwad Tuesday: Every third Tuesday
of the month.
All books are donated to the
Friends of the Ashland Public Library. All proceeds support
the Ashland
Public Library! To donate books, please contact the Friends:
info@ashlandfriends.org or the Ashland Library at 541-774-6996,
410 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520.
Donations to the Friends of the Ashland Public Library collected by Judy Honore' of
Shakespeare and Co.: Allyson's Kitchen, Ashland Drug Store, Ashland Springs Hotel,
Karen Alexandria, Kenneth and Carol Ampel, Richard and Jan Anderson, Bloomsbury Books,
Rebecca A. Brunot, Norma and Robert D'Isidoro, Karen and David Druker, Gateway Real Estate,
Chris Honore', Lithia Park Shoes, Susan Lloyd, Market of Choice, Teresa McCants,
Nancy Nicholson and Eric Riggs, John and Gwendolyn Overland, Patricia Sprague Real Estate,
Rocky Mountain Chocolate, Rogue Valley Runners, Royce Real Estate Services, Inc,
Shakespeare Books and Antiques, Sylvia Sullivan.
Zoey's Cafe
and All Natural Ice Cream donated all profits made on March 10th, 2007
to the Friends of the Ashland Public Library to support Ashland Library
Services.
The Ashland High
School Cheerleading Squad was in attendance at Zoey's Cafe, cheering on
for support of the
Ashland Library, as well as helping to serve ice cream
with a special team spirit.
Thanks to
all who participated in the 2007 Barbeque for Books and special thanks to
Ron Roth and Kathleen MacMichael and the business partners who helped
make the event such a success, including
Geppettos, Eagle Mill Farm, Pilof and Grilla Bites.
Thank you, everyone,
for your support of the Ashland Public Library!
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The Closing of the Library
One by one they fall silent
Hamlet in mid-question: To be, or
Molly Bloom before she says Yes
And the author, met by chance, who would have
Spoken the missing words, and changed a child's life
One by one they drop into the dark
The drawings of Michelangelo
Ansel Adam's pages of captured light
Albums of the most antique rockets
And the most modern dinosaurs, gone
This is a choice we make today, uncompelled
To spend our money on something else
Instead of books, or the public good
We choose the private thing
The silent, and the dark
Then words return, and I remember:
"Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
Books have a loud and soundless speech
And light that comes from their light alone
So as each book is a written-out hope
For remembrance and mercy and understanding
And each library is a promise to the child and to the town
So I must believe that no book is forever closed
And that every library will, tomorrow, open
Pepper Trail
written in the Ashland Public Library
March 23, 2007
Friends of
the Ashland Public Library Annual Meeting, held on February 4, 2008. Sue
Lopez, President, conducts the meeting.
A view of
Grizzly Peak from the Ashland Public Library.
An early morning view from a front window
of the Ashland Public Library.
Contributions may be
submitted at the Ashland
Library or sent to P.O. Box 91, Ashland, OR 97520.
Click here
for a donation form.
