Friends of the Rosenberg

Library

2015-2016 Board Members

President Cheryl Jenkines

Secretary Mary Lou Shuffler

Treasurer Gene Hornstein

Past President/Book Sale Trish McDaniel

Executive Director John Augelli

Standing Committees

Hospitality

Paula Reeg Jimmie Ward

B.J. Logan

Membership Diane Donohoe

Newsletter/Publicity Saralyn Richard

Retail/Outreach Jill Randall

Friends Book Shop

Diane Donohoe Margie Frantz

Laura Landry

Members-at-Large Margaret Canavan

Jan Malone

Karla Mock

Lynne Tomlinson

Betty Williamson

FALL 2016

Greetings from the President

Dear Friends,

Fall is here, and with it comes the Friends Annual Used Book Sale. We have

made some positive changes for the 2016 sale. The Book Sale will be held over

three days beginning on Thursday evening October 6 from 5-7 with the

Members Preview Sale. Memberships will be available at the door and we will

be accepting cash, check and credit cards. The sale will continue Friday October

7 from noon-6 and on through Saturday October 8 from 10-4. Not only will we

be able to accept credit cards for membership but for book purchases too!

This year we will utilize most of the Grand Hall, and the Friends Book Shop

will be open during the sale. There you will be able to browse our shelves and

purchase the 2016 souvenir ornament. Remember all proceeds from the sale go

toward supporting the library.

I hope these extended hours makes it easier for you to be part of this annual

event. I look forward to seeing you at the wonderful Rosenberg Library.

Sincerely,

Cheryl Jenkines

Left, new dates and times for Book Sale. Center, the

2016 souvenir ornament. Right, the 2015 souvenir

ornament. Both ornaments will be on sale at the

Friends Book Shop during the Book Sale for just $20

each. All proceeds from ornament sales and book

sales benefit the library.

Above, The children’s section includes baby books,

picture books, easy readers, junior readers, and young

adult books. There are also nonfiction books for

children on a wide range of topics: arts and crafts,

science, games and puzzles, parties, do-it-yourself,

nature, cooking, and more. Books on parenting will

also be located with the children’s books.

Below, Look for books about gardening, horticulture,

floral arrangements, and arts and crafts.

Book Sale Bonanza: Think Thursday

Is your dance card filled to capacity the first Friday in

October? No problem! Thursday is the new Friday at

Rosenberg Library! Please join us for a new twist on

tradition and mark your calendars for Thursday, October 6

for the Members Only Preview Sale.

In addition to our new preview night, we are excited to

showcase our beautiful Friends Bookshop. Located across

from the Gibson Reading Room, it is always open during

library hours and features exciting like-new bargains for

your home library or gift-giving needs.

This year we will also feature a bit more elbow room for

your shopping pleasure. The entire Grand Hallway and

adjoining rooms will be filled with donations we have

collected year-round.

Lastly, books are not the only bargains for sale! We will

offer a truly extraordinary collection of jazz and blues CDs.

Artists include American, European, Latin, well-known and

obscure – genres, traditional and modern. Also included are

Classical, Texas singer/songwriters, Soul, Funk and Rock &

Roll and Country & Western favorites. Sheet music and over

500 albums will also be for sale.

Special thanks to Margaret Canavan for the stunning

design and photo of Henry on our poster and bookmarks,

and to Joe Deflor of JML Publishing & Marketing Services

for his generous donation of graphic support and printing of

the bookmarks.

Thanks always for your support of Friends of Rosenberg

Library, and I’ll be looking for you at the Book Sale.

Trish McDaniel

Book Sale Chairman

A Book Shop Within a Library

If you haven’t yet become a regular customer at the Friends

Book Shop, stop by the next time you are at the library. The

Book Shop is on the second floor, and it has been newly re-

modeled to increase its size by five times.

Books are available for purchase in all genres, and all of

them are in excellent condition. You won’t believe the bar-

gains. Some are priced as

low as $3 or even less.

The Book Shop will be

open during the Book Sale

as well. Look for the 2016

and 2015 souvenir orna-

ments on display there.

Art, Music, and Peace of Mind

We have the usual fabulous assortment of

art books, including artist-specific volumes

from classical to modern, with beautiful color

reproductions. Looking for museum collec-

tions? We've got them. Artist biographies?

Those too! Also "how-to" books if you want

to become the next Rembrandt or Picasso.

Our music room has CDs and a larger-

than-usual collection of sheet music and

books ranging from opera to pop, with

biographies of performers. CDs always sell

out, so be sure to come early.

Want to improve yourself, your life, your

health, your brain? We have a great selection

of self-improvement, self-help, psychology

and psychiatry books to choose from.

Cooking up Something Great at the Book Sale

This year we have an extensive collection of cookbooks, ranging from Texas regional to classic French.

Beyond recipes, cookbooks provide a glimpse of other cultures, tastes, and times. For instance, a 1930's

cookbook might give several recipes for squirrel. I haven't seen a single recipe for that furry creature in any of

my 21st century cookbooks.

We have interesting regional cookbooks like The Hungry Hog from Lafayette, LA. Not only does it have

hilarious illustrations and traditional recipes but the even pages are in French and the odd pages are in English.

If you are hungry for creole and Cajun cooking this is the one. Also we have numerous Texas cookbooks from

churches, Junior Leagues, schools, neighborhood groups and even country clubs throughout the state. The Best

of the Best from Texas Cookbook has selected recipes from Texas' favorite cookbooks.

We have product cookbooks too. Pace Picante printed A Treasury of Tex-Mex Cooking for its 40th

anniversary, full of ideas and zesty recipes. A loyal customer of Trader Joe’s compiled a cookbook using

products found there.

Then there is cookbook that utilizes the seasonal produce from The Ferry Plaza Farmers' Market in San

Francisco. It is a guide for shopping for the freshest produce and it has sensational recipes for the just-picked.

For busy, busy people we have The Working Stiff Cookbook. It has a whole section devoted to Instant and

another for One-Pot Meals. The No-Cook Pasta Sauces is full of quick and delicious ideas. "Two Guys Who

Like to Eat" published a winner, This Is A Cookbook: Recipes for Real Life. They have created a guide full of

exceptional meals that are easy to prepare.

This year we have something for everyone in the cookbook section, including ones from great restaurants

like Brennan's in New Orleans, Tony's in Houston, Royer's Cafe in Round Top, and many more.

All gourmets, gourmands, and foodies are welcome to shop here. Cookbooks are among our most popular “finds” at the Annual

Book Sale. You can’t beat our inventory for variety, quality, and amazing prices.

Museum Book Club Fall 2016 Selection

Rosenberg Library is pleased to announce its selection for the Fall 2016 Museum Club series: The

Forgers, A Novel by award-winning author Bradford Morrow. The Forgers is a literary thriller which

explores the dark side of the rare book world. It will appeal to mystery fans and book lovers alike.

The first meeting of the Fall Museum Book Club will take place on Wednesday, September 14 from

12 noon – 1:00 p.m. A second session will be held on Thursday, November 10 from 12 noon – 1:00

p.m. The Museum Book Club will meet in the McCullough Room located on the library’s 2nd floor.

Light refreshments are provided at all sessions.

About The Book

The novel begins with the murder of rare book collector Adam Diehl. Diehl is found beaten in his

home with his collection of valuable books and manuscripts vandalized. The case grows cold as the

police are unable to identify solid suspects or even a plausible motive for the crime.

The shadowy main character—a reformed forger of rare manuscripts—narrates the story. Readers

are provided with subtle clues to help unravel the mystery, but there is an unexpected twist at the end of

the book. Morrow tells the tale in a Sherlock Holmes-inspired fashion, making The Forgers a real page-

turner.

About the Author

Bradford Morrow grew up in Denver, Colorado but studied and worked in Honduras, Italy, and France

during his youth. After earning degrees from the University of Colorado and from Yale University, he

worked as a bookseller in California for several years. Morrow joined the faculty of Bard College in

New York in 1990 and founded the literary journal Conjunctions. He also began writing novels.

Among other accolades, Morrow has won a Guggenheim Fellowship in fiction and the O. Henry Prize

for short stories.

From the Permanent Collection

Rosenberg Library preserves an impressive array of rare books and early manuscripts in its Special

Collections. Select items from the Rare Book Collection will be displayed and discussed at the Fall

2016 Museum Book Club programs.

About the Museum Book Club

Rosenberg Library’s Museum Book Club offers participants the chance to

experience art and literature in a more interactive way. Members have the

opportunity to view rarely exhibited art and historical artifacts from the

library’s permanent collection as they discuss related books.

Registration is required for all Museum Book Club meetings.

Established book clubs are encouraged to participate. Groups of

over ten people are asked to call the Reference Desk in advance to arrange

accommodations.

The Forgers is available at Rosenberg Library in regular and large type

print format. Patrons can also access it as an –book through the 3M cloud

library.

Texas Film Round-Up a Huge Success

The Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) hosted a Film Round-Up at the library in

June. Through a partnership with the Texas Film Commission, the Texas Film Round-Up provides

free digitization for Texas films and videos to fulfill their mission of rescuing and showcasing the

State’s cultural history. To qualify for free digitization, films must be Texas-related and

participants must be willing to donate a digital copy to TAMI’s archive, a digital collection

available at www.texasarchive.org. These films help educate the public about Texas’ film

heritage.

During the last weekend in June, TAMI staff set up their tables and exhibit on the second floor

of the library and waited. The response was phenomenal. Over the course of three days they

collected over 1,300 films for the Archive. According to Managing Director Madeline Moya, this

was the best response to a film round-up TAMI has ever experienced. The event ended with a film

screening that featured many films from the Rosenberg Library’s own film collection that included

tourism films, an interview with filmmaker King Vidor about the 1900 storm, and footage of the

1925 Galveston Bathing Girl Revue.

If you were unable to participate in the Film Round-Up or if you have found additional films in

the closet or attic, you can still have them digitized for free by contacting Madeline Moya at

mmoya@texasarchive.org or 512.485.3073. Questions about the library’s film collection can be

directed to Peggy Dillard at pdillard@rosenberg-library.org.

Holiday Cheer

The second annual Holiday Open House

hosted by Special Collections will be held

Thursday, December 1, from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m.

in the Fox Room on the fourth floor of the

library. Come and enjoy live piano music,

refreshments, traditional ornament-making, kid-

friendly crafts, and a display of antique toys,

vintage Christmas cards, and photographs from

the archives and museum collections. The

museum exhibits will remain open for this

special evening. Fun for the entire family!

Membership Musings

Everyone is welcome to join Friends of Rosenberg Library, serving the community in its 75th

year. Currently we have 269 members, who have donated over $13,000 dollars in 2016.

Many of the beautiful furnishings and appointments of the library have been provided by Friends’

membership donations. Join for as little as $15 per year, and the benefits are many, including

preview of the book sale, newsletters, online book sale opportunities, and the satisfaction of

helping the library. Join at the circulation desk or from 5-7 p.m. on October 6. You can pay by

cash, check, or credit card. Like our Facebook page to receive important notices, too.

Children’s Department Fan Mail: Best

Library Ever!

Summer Fun Activities for Kids

*Reading, course!

2034 registered for the Children’s

Summer Reading Club

11,716 books logged AND 146,219

minutes read logged

*Bluebonnet Book Parties

*Get in the Game programs for school-age

*Drop-In Activities

*Paws to Read

Opportunity to practice reading skills by

reading to real live dogs

*Educational programs

Snakes, Galveston Bay Foundation,

Chemistry Road Show, Life in Classical

Greece, Wild Things Zoofari, Book

Smarts

*Dance, Theater, Painting

*Storytimes for all ages

*Freedom School Harambe

*Drop-in Olympics

*Special programs with Special Collections

Take Me Out to the Ballgame, Texas

Money, Create Your Own Still-Life

Painting

*Computers: Over 4,000 computer users (many

repeat customers)

*Gift certificates to the Book Sale awarded to 450 Left, Summer Reading Club Kick-off at Moody Gardens

Palm Beach. There were 1155 people “Diving into a Good

Book!”.

Left and right,

Patron volunteer,

Yuko Ito lead

session on

origami fun.

Chemistry Workshop

Left, Dr. Jim Pennington of

Texas A&M, College Station, led

this workshop for children.

Above, Parents and children

improve technological skills

using computers.

Above, Everyone had a ball when Cinderella made a

special guest appearance.

Coming Attractions

Wednesday Storytimes 10 a.m. & 2 p.m.

September 21- December 7

Family Fun Nights 7 p.m.

September 29

October 27

November 17

December 29

January 5

Saturday Stories 10 a.m.

September 10

October 8

November 19

January 7

Paws to Read 6pm

Thursdays, September 22-November 17

Lego Brickyard 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.

Tuesday, November 22

Stories with Santa 10 a.m.

Saturday, December 10 *Pre-

Registration required

Christmas Countdown with Stories 4:30 p.m.

Daily November 21-December23

The library is proud to host US Citizenship classes at the library, in collaboration with the Ser

and Hacer program from the Children’s Center. This 12-week program provides preparation in

civics, government, US History and English as a second language for legal residents who want to

take the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services naturalization exam.

Ser and Hacer, a program developed by The Children’s Center in Galveston, is the only remote

site for the naturalization test in the area, and one of the few to provide free citizenship classes in

Galveston County. Founded by educators Magdalena Alvarado and Mary Longoria, the program

has taught nearly 400 students so far since 2011, with an 80% success rate. The efforts, however,

had been limited to a single class and location a week each semester. The Rosenberg Library’s

Adult Services Department reached out to the instructors to assist in hosting a much needed

morning session, in efforts to expand services for Galveston residents who are English language

learners.

Courses are on Mondays this fall (except for bank Holidays) through December 5, from 10

a.m. to 12 p.m. in the Wortham Auditorium (1st floor). To register, contact Magdalena Alvarado at

409-792-7338. For additional information, you can also contact Idalia Avezuela, Adult Services &

Acquisitions Manager, at 409-763-8854 or email iavezuela@rosenberg-library.org

In celebration of National Library Workers Day and National Library Week, April 9-15, Friends hosted a luncheon

for Rosenberg’s fabulous library workers in the Fox Room.

Teen Summer Reading Club

Teens throughout Galveston County participated

in a variety of fun, engaging programs, combining

past favorites with brand new ideas. For the second

year running the most popular program was the

Young Audiences of Houston’s T-Shirt Screen

Printing workshop led by artist Danny Russo (left).

This workshop allowed the teens to make custom t-

shirt designs using screen printing techniques and

drew the biggest crowd of the summer.

New this year was the first Teen Iron Chef com-

petition, pitting teens against each other to create dishes from ordinary snack items. Other

programs included an afternoon watching an anime film, a crocheting class, and a button

making workshop. Overall attendance for the events was up 14% from the previous summer.

In addition to the programs, teens were able to sign up on the library’s website to track the

numbers of minutes they read during the summer for a chance to win a brand new Kindle Fire.

Congratulations to Caleb Smith, this year’s grand prize winner!

Currently, the Teen Advisory Group, known as YALL, or Young Adult Library Leaders, is

making plans for fall and winter events which will include the annual Halloween Party, the

Holiday Party, movie night, and a host of other fun activities, crafts, and games. All teens are

welcome.

Poster Printing Made Easy

The library has a Canon iPF 8400 color printer to produce posters for library programming

and on a limited basis for public use for ready-to-print content. (The library does not offer

design services for posters.) Patrons may bring their ready-to-print poster on a flash drive in

pdf format to the library’s 3rd floor computer lab. Posters are available in a wide range of

sizes and prices to fit most project needs and budgets. Full size posters measuring 33”x 42”

cost $12.00, which is the largest size currently available. Posters that fit tri-fold science boards

start at 12”x 36” and cost $5.00; taxes are included with pricing. To make a poster printing

appointment, please call the Adult Computer Lab at (409)763 – 8854 extension 130.

From the Executive Director

Dear Friends:

It has been a summer of both big and small improvements at the Rosenberg Library. In the

last two months, your library has greatly expanded its selection of on-line magazines. In all,

there are now more than 90 general interest magazines that can be downloaded from the

Rosenberg Library’s website to your home computer or mobile device utilizing two different

platforms (Zinio and Flipster). Zinio and Flipster both offer the current and recent back issues

of magazine selections. For faster downloads to your mobile device, it is recommended that

you acquire the free Zinio and Flipster apps. If you enjoy reading magazines, these platforms

are a great resource. We have also recently added a new document management station to our

computer services department on the 3rd floor of the building. The Envisionware workstation

provides an easy way to quickly scan and email documents. Documents with sensitive

information can be encrypted with a password before emailing the item out. There is no charge

to scan and email documents from the workstation. Staff is also working with our service

provider to double the Internet speeds in the building. This process has taken longer than

originally anticipated, but we are guardedly optimistic that the higher speeds should finally roll

out in September.

There is also a new video about the Rosenberg Library that can be viewed either at

www.rosenberg-library.org or in the building on a new monitor adjacent to the historical

staircase on the second floor of the Rosenberg Wing. Houston Arts & Media worked with our

staff to produce a history of our library and our esteemed founder, Henry Rosenberg. This

media company has produced a variety of award winning historical documentaries for

Houston’s KUHT PBS Channel 8 including Birth of Texas, Postcards from Texas and With

Respect: Preserving Historic Cemeteries.

If you have been by the library in the evening, you may have noticed the new perimeter

LED lighting under the eaves of the Moody Wing roof. The new lights cast a beautiful glow

across the travertine marble façade of the west wing. We have also started the process of

replacing the old 175-watt metal halide lighting fixtures in the parking lots with high efficiency

38-watt LED fixtures. In June we also finished the renovation work on the fourth floor

restrooms and the Board Room. All the public restrooms at the Rosenberg Library are now

ADA compliant.

Staff is currently working on the budget for the new fiscal year. One of the proposals for

the FY2016/17 operating budget includes a full restoration of our pre-Ike evening hours

beginning April 3rd. If approved, floors one, two and three of the library will be open to the

public from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday each week.

Thank you for being a Friend of the Rosenberg Library.

Sincerely,

John Augelli

Executive Director