July is National Ice Cream Month!
Want a great read to celebrate this most delicious month of reading? Try “The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street: a novel” by Susan Jane Gilman. Irresistibly good!
From the FOLSOI Blog:
Celebrating Dads Around the World | by Patricia Langer
Fun Father’s Day Facts: Father’s Day was established in 1910 by a woman named Sonora Smart Dodd, who wanted to honor her own devoted father, William Jackson Smart, a twice-widowed Civil War Veteran who raised six of his fourteen children as a single dad | Ladies First: President Nixon signed Father’s Day into law in 1972, 58 years after President Woodrow Wilson made Mother’s Day official … read more
Juneteenth, a Long Overdue Holiday | by Barbara Lemos
When Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862, to free slaves in the Confederate states, slavery was ended… or was it? Some enslaved people were released from their bonds, able to embark on a life of freedom, but many in the South remained enslaved as the Civil War raged on for nearly three more years. It would take more bloodshed, sacrifice, and passage and ratification of the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in 1865 to settle the issue. It wasn’t until … read more
Life Long Learners On CRISPR’s Promise and Peril … by Barbara Lemos
In the final installment of the Barbee Library Life Long Learners series on DNA, 32 participants on Zoom learned about CRISPR, the gene editing technology promising brilliant medical breakthroughs or apocalyptic ethical perils (or both). CRISPR stands for Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats. In 1989, Spanish microbiologist Francisco Mojica discovered … read more
Donor News:
Thanks to our generous donors:
- Mark & Robin Prak donated several Newbury & Caldecott Medal award winning books to both libraries’ children’s collection.
- Kim & Doug Ausbury donated $200 to FOLSOI
- Dawn Brannon donated $100 for Harper Library
- Carol Pearson, founder of 10 Little Rules publishing company, donated two copies of The Bench by Meghan, The Duchess of Sussex, in memory of her dad on Father’s Day.
- Sarah Williams donated $20 to be used by Barbee Library
Did you know … ?
When you shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/56-1717796, AmazonSmile will donate a portion of your eligible purchases to Friends of the Library-Southport Oak Island … at no cost to you!
For Our Young Readers:
Don’t forget the Harper Library Birthday Club!
Create lasting memories and celebrate your child by sponsoring the purchase of exciting new kids’ books for Harper Library! During your child’s birthday month, the librarians will choose a new book matching your child’s age range. What a great way to celebrate! Sign up here!
Teen subscription box program launches at Harper Library … and it’s FREE!
Have a teen reader in your life? Sign them up for the Libre Loot program from Harper Library. Each month they’ll receive a box with a selection of books to read and return, and some fun loot to keep! Call Harper Library at 910-457-6237 by July 23 to receive Libre Loot boxes in August, September and October.
News about FOLSOI:
Our volunteers are amazing!
Wow! Our volunteer hour numbers just keep increasing! Our total hours for June was over 460 hours thanks to huge increases in hours (over 200%!) from the Programs & Events and Ways & Means committees. The Publicity committee also saw a 20% increase, and the Book Sales committee a 18% increase. Business is certainly getting back to normal at FOLSOI! Thanks for all you do!
Open volunteer positions:
Programs & Special Events Co-Chair
As part of a dynamic board of directors, lead a terrific team of 4-5 volunteer library program coordinators for popular programs like Let’s Talk About It, Opera Sunday, and Meet the Author. Also arrange and present educational or entertainment programs for FOLSOI’s Annual Meeting and initiate Friends of the Library community events with library managers.
Publicity Co-Chair
Offer thought leadership on marketing content strategy; lead a talented, experienced 7-person publicity team for library news, programs and events. Oversee the website, social media and MailChimp accounts.
Interested? Email friendsoflibrary910@yahoo.com or contact us through our website at www.folsoi.org.
New Members:
A big FOLSOI welcome and thank you to our new members last month:
- Alice Collins Barnes
- William Bolding
- Stephen Burnes
- MaryAnn Wallace
Special recognition to Kim & Doug Ausbury and Rick Fuller for being named Honorary Lifetime Members in appreciate of their dedication and support of FOLSOI.
Book sale updates!
Our Used Booksales are back and better than ever!
See our upcoming sale dates and times, and our UPDATED safety guidelines. See you there!