Category: Friends News
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A Great Beginning to the Speakers Series…
Jonathan Escoffery kicked off the 2024 Speaker Series on January 15 with a discussion of his debut story collection If I Survive You which poses a question he has heard throughout his life: What are you? Born in Miami of Jamaican parents, Escoffery spent his childhood bedeviled by the question posed not only by playmates,…
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Message from the President-January 2024
Big Plans for the New Year With Our Friends In Mind! Happy New Year, Friends! We’re delighted that the high season has arrived — we’ve planned some wonderful events and hope to see you at many of them. But first… Our pink library does an amazing job helping our community read and listen to books…
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At the Library – January 2024
by Kim Rinaldi, Senior Branch Manager Happy New Year, Key West! The staff of the Key West Library hope you had a wonderful holiday and look forward to serving you in 2024. And if it’s anything like last year, it’s sure to be a huge success! Here are some 2023 statistics that we are very…
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Carl Hiaasen Delights 5th Graders from Gerald Adams Elementary
Newberry Honor Winner Carl Hiaasen spent an hour at the Key West Library with the 5th grade class from Gerald Adams Elementary this past December 8. Thanks to the generosity of the Friends of the Key West Library, each student received a complimentary signed copy of Hiaasen’s new middle-grade reader, Wrecker, which takes place in…
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Message from the President-December 2023
Keeping Calm and Carrying on into the New Year! Happy holidays, Friends! It’s such a busy time of year preparing for the holidays, making the transition from somewhere chilly to Key West (snowbirds!), and enjoying the many events the season brings. But it’s also a crucial time for our Friends organization as we gear up…
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Funding Update: Friends of the Library Receive CFFK Grant, Support of Juvenile Collections
CFFK Awards $5000 to the Friends for Digital Books During this season of thanks, we are so very grateful to be the recipient of a grant award from Community Foundation of the Florida Keys through their 2023 “Up and Over, for the Keys” program. The award of $5000 will go to help our library make digital book…
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At the Library – December 2023
by Kim Rinaldi, Senior Branch Manager The Key West Library is hosting several terrific authors in December so be sure to take a break from holiday shopping to discover your next favorite book. On Tuesday, December 5, at 10 a.m., we will host another Café con Libros event with the authors of the Key West Writer’s…
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Message from the President
We’re Back! Dear Friends, We are so excited to share the news of our upcoming Friends of the Key West Library season. Even though many of us have not been in Key West over the summer, the board has been working hard to plan for the year ahead. Bigger than ever, the 2024 Speaker Series…
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New Website of The Friends of the Key West Library Unveiled
After months in development, we are very excited to announce that the brand new Friends website has launched! We spent this summer developing the website with our Friends in mind. Our goals for the new site were to make the experience on the site as easy and enjoyable as possible and to encourage further community engagement through…
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2024 Speaker Series Announced
Save the dates! The Friends 2024 Speaker Series has been announced. The 2024 season is a diverse one. It includes authors of literary fiction, crime fiction, historical fiction, book-length non-fiction, short stories, and essays. There are writers who have won or been short-listed the Booker Prize, the National Book Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the PEN/Malamud…