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In the mood for some early holiday shopping for a good cause? From 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, the Broward Public Library Foundation is hosting an event at Alex and Ani, 1012 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. The store is known for its charms, bangle bracelets, chain necklaces and rings. Fifteen percent of the sales at the event, which will include light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments, will be donated to the Library Foundation to benefit the annual Books ‘n’ Bears at the Holidays program. Only in-person sales count toward this fund-raising event, but shoppers may browse the website www. alexandani.com to get ideas before the event. For details, please call 954-357-7382. The Book With Brunch season kicks off on Thursday, October 20, with mystery and suspense writer Sharon Potts who will discuss her latest thriller, Someone Must Die. This psychological thriller, set in the 1960s, tells the story of a family thrown into turmoil when a six-year-old boy vanishes from a neighborhood carnival in Miami. Protagonist Aubrey Lynd’s world shatters when the FBI’s investigation raises questions about her own family that Aubrey can’t answer. Held at 10:30 a.m. at ArtServe (1350 E. Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale), Book With Brunch takes place three times yearly as a membership benefit for Foundation members at the $50 level and above. Non-members may attend by paying a $25 non-refundable fee in advance. Please call 954-357-7382 to make your reservation. Seating is limited to the first 50 registrants. Creation Station Business Opening at Main Library: An Incubator for Ideas that Become Reality Shop Alex and Ani to Support Books’n’Bears A Thrilling Start to Book With Brunch The long-anticipated opening of the Creation Station Business at Main Library is scheduled from 6 to 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, reports Bob Anstett, Coordinator of Digital Initiatives for Broward County Libraries Division. For two years, the original Creation Stations at Broward County Library have been helping people express their creative side, providing them with the tools, technology and instruction they need to go wherever their imagination takes them. The Creation Station Business will take this concept one step further, giving entrepreneurs and small business owners the skills and tools to build a new future from their dreams. Creation Station Business will teach both new businesses and established small companies both hard technical skills and soft skills. Training will be offered in how to code, budget, design websites and create business plans. “Soft” skills, such as hiring employees, creating a brand and sharing a vision with customers, will also be taught. The Creation Station Business Speaker Series, which will be funded by the Broward Public Library Foundation, is planned as a monthly event that will draw from a wide variety of speakers who will highlight the problems and pitfalls of starting new businesses, and share local success stories in our community. see SAT WORKSHOPS on back page The Broward Public Library Foundation was founded in 1982 to enhance the collections, programs and services of the Broward County Library beyond the means of public funding. The nonprofit Foundation is the catalyst in sparking private funding and endowments to enrich the Broward County Library system. SEPTEMBER 2016 Mark your calendar for a season of Book With Brunch Thursday, October 20, 2016 Sharon Potts, author of Someone Must Die Thursday, January 19, 2017 Mary Bush Shipko, author of AVIATRIX, First Woman Pilot for Hughes Airwest Thursday, April 27, 2017 Author TBA Students Get Set for SATs at Library Workshops Now that high school students are back in classes, they’re turning their attention to the all-important SAT and ACT tests that can make all the difference in college acceptance. Over the past eight years, the Broward Public Library Foundation has helped more than 2,000 students prepare for these tests by providing funding for library-based intensive SAT/ACT Workshops. Alberto Howe, the founder of Affordable College Solutions, teaches these free classes, which offer diagnostic practice tests, tips on test-taking strategies, and information on financial aid for students and parents. Broward College and the Harry T. Mangurian Foundation are supporting the workshop series during this academic year. Students recognize the workshops’ value. “They changed my future,” one student wrote in an online program survey. “Because
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In the mood for some early holiday shopping for a good cause? From 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 26, the Broward Public Library Foundation is hosting an event at Alex and Ani, 1012 E. Las Olas Blvd., Fort Lauderdale. The store is known for its charms, bangle bracelets, chain necklaces and rings. Fifteen percent of the sales at the event, which will include light hors d’oeuvres and refreshments, will be donated to the Library Foundation to benefit the annual Books ‘n’ Bears at the Holidays program.
Only in-person sales count toward this fund-raising event, but shoppers may browse the website www.alexandani.com to get ideas before the event. For details, please call 954-357-7382.
The Book With Brunch season kicks off on Thursday, October 20, with mystery and suspense writer Sharon Potts who will discuss her latest thriller, Someone Must Die.
This psychological thriller, set in the 1960s, tells the story of a family thrown into turmoil when a six-year-old boy vanishes from a neighborhood carnival in Miami. Protagonist Aubrey Lynd’s world shatters when the FBI’s investigation raises questions about her own family that Aubrey can’t answer.
Held at 10:30 a.m. at ArtServe (1350 E. Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale), Book With Brunch takes place three times yearly as a membership benefit for Foundation members at the $50 level and above.
Non-members may attend by paying a $25 non-refundable fee in advance. Please call 954-357-7382 to make your reservation. Seating is limited to the first 50 registrants.
Creation Station Business Opening at Main Library: An Incubatorfor Ideas that Become Reality
Shop Alex and Ani to Support Books’n’Bears
A Thrilling Start to Book With Brunch
The long-anticipated opening of the Creation Station Business at Main Library is scheduled from 6 to 7:45 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 19, reports Bob Anstett, Coordinator of Digital Initiatives for Broward County Libraries Division.
For two years, the original Creation Stations at Broward County Library have been helping people express their creative side, providing them with the tools, technology and instruction they need to go wherever their imagination takes them. The Creation Station Business will take this concept one step further, giving entrepreneurs and small business owners the skills and tools to build a new future from their dreams.
Creation Station Business will teach both new businesses and established small companies both hard technical skills and soft skills. Training will be offered in how to code, budget, design websites and create business plans. “Soft” skills,
such as hiring employees, creating a brand and sharing a vision with customers, will also be taught. The Creation Station Business Speaker Series, which will be funded by the Broward Public Library Foundation, is planned as a monthly event that will draw from a wide variety of speakers who will highlight the problems and pitfalls of starting new businesses, and share local success stories in our community.
see SAT WORKSHOPS on back page
The Broward Public Library Foundation was founded in 1982 to enhance the collections, programs and services of the Broward County Library beyond the means of public funding. The nonprofit Foundation is the catalyst in sparking private funding and endowments to enrich the Broward County Library system.
SEPTEMBER 2016
Mark your calendar for aseason of Book With Brunch
Thursday,October 20, 2016Sharon Potts, author of
Someone Must Die
Thursday,January 19, 2017
Mary Bush Shipko, author of AVIATRIX, First Woman Pilot
for Hughes Airwest
Thursday, April 27, 2017Author TBA
Students Get Set for SATs at Library Workshops
Now that high school students are back in classes, they’re turning their attention to the all-important SAT and ACT tests that can make all the difference in college acceptance.
Over the past eight years, the Broward Public Library Foundation has helped more than 2,000 students prepare for these tests by providing funding for library-based intensive SAT/ACT Workshops. Alberto Howe, the founder of Affordable College Solutions, teaches these free classes, which offer diagnostic practice tests, tips on test-taking strategies, and information on financial aid for students and parents.
Broward College and the Harry T. Mangurian Foundation are supporting the workshop series during this academic year.
Students recognize the workshops’ value. “They changed my future,” one student wrote in an online program survey. “Because
Mark Your Calendar for Literary Feast Events —Welcome Back LitLIVE!
Broward Public Library Foundation’s annual celebration of books and authors turns 29 this year. The event begins with LitLUNCH!, which is Fort Lauderdale’s most popular women’s luncheon featuring a best-selling author. LitLUNCH! takes place on Friday, February 10 at the Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six’s Pier Top restaurant. This year’s author will be frequent television guest, Harvard MBA and work/balance expert Samantha Ettus, author of The Pie Life: A Guilt-Free Recipe for Success and Satisfaction. The event includes champagne, lunch, the author’s talk, book sales and signing, along with a raffle. Tickets are $75 with the option to
add $24 for raffle tickets.LitLIVE! returns this year on Friday evening,
March 31. Authors will appear for panel discussions and book signings at two Barnes & Noble locations in Fort Lauderdale and Plantation. Admission is free but tickets are required and will be accessible through the Foundation
website. A portion of the money from book sales benefits BPLF.
A Night of Literary Feasts, the Foundation’s signature fundraising event, begins on Saturday, April 1 with a Welcome Reception in the Panorama Room at Hyatt Regency Pier Sixty-Six, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The reception is followed by gourmet dinners in elegant homes and upscale restaurants with an author.
Confirmed authors for the 2017 Night of Literary Feasts as of publication are New York Times best-selling writers Andrew Gross (The One Man), Yaa Gyasi (Homegoing: A Novel), Sophie Hannah (Closed Casket), Debbie Macomber (Sweet Tomorrows), along with Joyce Maynard (Under the Influence), Robert Olen Butler (Perfume River), Thomas Swick (Joys of Travel) with others to follow. Tickets begin at $175 for dinners. Welcome Reception-only tickets are $75.
Broward Public Library Foundation Board Member Karen Jones, Ann Burris and Merrie Meyers are co-chairing Literary Feast 2017.
Keep up with the latest Literary Feast author news at www.bplfoundation.org or call (954) 357-7382 for details.
Cookin,’ Codin’ and Dancin’: Summer Learning Program 2016
Broward County Library, the Broward Public Library Foundation and Broward County’s young readers are very grateful to all who supported the 2016 “Big Win” Summer Learning Program. Thanks to your generosity, we raised approximately $40,000 in individual and foundation donations.
Over the summer, many young people lose access to those supports that are critical to keeping them healthy and engaged in learning, such as federally funded meals and regular physical activity. This undermines their readiness for learning and contributes to gaps in achievement and success,
particularly for low-income students. The program, which was held at library
branches throughout the county, provided a free and safe place for thousands of children to have fun this summer while they were learning and developing the crucial habit of reading. The 4,793 children who participated in the 191 Library Foundation-funded programs enjoyed hands-on science experiments, a coding camp, cooking and dancing, along with time set aside for
reading - in total, an astonishing 4,238,959 minutes of reading were logged by all who registered for the program!
Participants qualified for incentive prizes throughout the summer and grand prizes of tablets and Legos for children were awarded at each branch to those who completed the reading program.
Foundation funders included the Deaver Phoenix Foundation, PNC Foundation, GB Knecht Foundation, Friends of the Cultural Arts, John & Nellie Bastien Memorial Foundation and the Georgina Jacobsen Fund of the Community Foundation of Broward.
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We Can’t Do This Without You!Get to know Literary Feast authors and help the Foundation.
Volunteer to be an author chaperone or event staff at LitLIVE! and Literary Feast. Or help us with programs all year long. Contact Tina Koenig, [email protected] or call (954) 357-7384.
Make the Foundation Your Amazon Smile Beneficiary
Do you shop on Amazon.com? If so, Amazon has a program that lets you designate our Foundation to receive .5% of your qualifying purchases. It’s called AmazonSmile and it only takes a minute to sign up and choose the Broward Public Library Foundation as your “shopping beneficiary.” Just visit https://smile.amazon.com/ch/59-2224746 to sign up and then shop as you normally would. We appreciate your support!
my SAT score will be better and I will get into my dream school!” Another acknowledged that the classes “helped me improve my test-taking skills and gave me confidence.”
Seven workshop series are planned in advance of the SAT and ACT test dates in 2016-2017 at libraries throughout the county. More than 90 students signed up to participate in September for SAT/ACT prep classes at the Main Library. “There’s such a great need for these free classes,” said Main Library youth librarian and Workshop coordinator Sydna Wexler, pointing out how expensive similar private test prep classes can be.
To register for the workshop series, visit www.broward.org/library or call Synda Wexler at 954-357-7344.
