The Perfect GiftFor $100, you can Own-A-Day at the library and have your gift be recognized on the receipts at circu-lation desks, on the flat-screen TVs inside the library, on the library’s home page, and in the library’s newsletters. This is the perfect way to honor or memorialize someone special, publicize a business, or celebrate a birthday or anniversary.

SEPT./OCT. 2019• A NEWS publicAtioN FRoM thE StAFF & FRiENDS oF thE JAMES V. bRoWN libRARy •

Dedicated people, bound together like pages in a book, have the strength to achieve great things.

For more information or to Own-a-Day, go to our website at www.jvbrown.edu, or call the Development

Department at 570-326-0536.

September 3 JR Confer DaySeptember 17 In memory of Mary K. GageSeptember 22 In memory of Harold YerkSeptember 25 Michael J. Bernardi Jr. DaySeptember 30 Remembering St. Jude DayOctober 5 Mr. and Mrs. Richard Lightbourn DayOctober 8 Erik Warg DayOctober 12 Rich Roan DayOctober 13 In memory of Hank BerkheimerOctober 22 Bob and Barnee Erkins DayOctober 29 Barbara R. Thomas Day

SUMMER LEARNING AT THE LIBRARY The best part of 4-year-old Sage’s week is coming to the library, according to her guardian Lyn Baker. Lyn, her husband, and Sage recently moved to Williamsport from Chicago so Sage could become closer to her mother, who works at a local college. They walk to the library from their nearby home several times a week so Sage can attend programs, play at the train table, check out books, and say “hi” to Franklin, the library’s Rus-sian tortoise. They love that the library is friendly and accommodating to Sage’s sensory issues.

Sage and Lyn also signed up for their own free library cards so they can take books and movies home with them. For Sage, the library is a place full of new opportunities to learn and feel welcome. This would not have been possible without you and your support of the Library’s Summer Learning Program. The Summer Learning Program is 100% funded by donors like you who realize the value of making learning fun and having the Library as a community resource for all. The Summer Learning Program makes memories that children keep for a lifetime. And it was all thanks to the generosity of supporters like you, who ensured that the Library’s summer program was full of activities, performers and visitors, great books and prizes. We can’t do it without you!

EFFECTIVE SEPTEMBER 7, 2019---NEW LIBRARY HOURS---

WEEKDAYS—9AM-8PMSATURDAYS—9AM-2PMSUNDAYS—12PM-5PM

Thanks to our sponsors for a successful Summer Learning Finale: Rotary Club of Williamsport and Friends of the JVB Library.

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Friends Book Review Luncheonto feature second part of historical volume

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Join the Friends Celebrate the Friends of the James V. Brown Library and become a Friends member during the 13th annual National Friends of Libraries Week, which will take place October 20-26. The National Friends of Libraries Week promotes the group in the community, raises awareness and increases membership, and gives libraries and boards of trustees the opportunity to recognize the Friends for their help and support of the library. Support the library while volunteering as a Friends member. Memberships are available at https://jvbrown.edu/about-the-friends/.

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Dr. Keith Shenberger is back by popular demand for the October 4 Book Review Luncheon. He will review The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Em-pire by English historian Edward Gibbon – the second volume this year. This master-work is a six-volume work that traces West-ern civilization from the height of the Ro-man Empire to the fall of Byzantium. The book covers the entire history of the Roman Empire, Europe, and the Catho-lic Church from 98 to 1590, and it discusses the decline of the Roman empire in the East and West. Historians refer to Gib-bon as the first modern historian of ancient Rome because of his use of primary sources, unusual at the time. His methodology became a model for later historians. Dr. Shenberger, who was born and raised in southeastern Pennsylvania, completed his med-ical training in New Hampshire,

and he has been a physician in the Williamsport region since 1982. He chose The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Volume the Second)

because of its univer-sally praised brilliance and its remarkable rele-vance to current politics worldwide.

The luncheon will start at 12 noon in the Lowry Room of the Welch Family wing of the James V. Brown Library. Those who wish may purchase lunch at noon for $6. To reserve lunch, use the online reser-

vation calendar on the library website (http://calendar.jvbrown.edu) where you will find a prompt for reservations or call Leslie at the Library at 570-326-0536, ext. 134. Reservations should be made by the Wednesday before the reviews. (Please note that you should register only if you wish to reserve lunch.) You may bring your own lunch or simply attend the book review, which will start at 12:30 p.m. Parking is available in the public lot off Market Street, adjacent to the Welch Wing.

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