Category: President’s letter
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Message from the President
– A Successful Friends Season April 2026 Dear Members, Friends, and Friends of Friends The Friends have had a fabulous season! We’ve grown our membership — in both numbers and revenue. We hosted four successful book sales, generating funds while serving a broad cross-section of our community. Our 10 Monday evening speaker events were consistently…
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Message from the President
Behind the Scenes at Our Book Sales “Books are a uniquely portable magic.” — Stephen King Hello Friends— Book sales are one of the Friends most well-known and best attended activities. Our final sale of the season is coming up on March 7. Throughout the year, books are carefully sorted by our amazing volunteers. The…
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Message from the President
The Friends Want You! Do you have “a very particular set of skills?” Dear Friends— As you know, the Friends is a volunteer-run organization with no paid staff. We work hard to keep our overhead low so we can maximize our support for the library—and that means relying on the time, talent, and generosity of…
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Message from the President
How your membership supports the library Dear Friends, As we enter this joyful season and ask you to renew your membership in the Friends—or even increase your support if you are able—we thought you might appreciate a closer look at how the library uses your contribution. Books, Books, Books… and PeriodicalsYour generosity buys books in…
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Message from the President
Big Plans for a New Season! Dear Key West Library Friends, The Friends board has been busy all summer preparing for a stellar season — planning our Speaker Series, Book Sales, Annual Gala Fundraiser, and a second Murder Mystery Tea. But while we went about our usual business, other things were brewing. As you all know,…
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Message from the President
New Faces for a New Season! Dear Friends, I am thrilled to be writing my first message to you as the President of the Friends of the Key West Library. (Whew!) We’re closing out a busy and successful season, culminated by giving our annual gift to the library. (See many of the articles below for…
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Message from the President
A Sensational Season Winds Down! Dear Friends, I was at a neighborhood cocktail party this week and had the most wonderful conversation with one of our members. She complimented me on the latest speaker, fiction writer Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan (wasn’t she lovely?), and then said that the Friends’ Speaker Series is one of the main…
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Message from the President
The Season Begins! Dear Friends, It’s January, and as Sherlock Holmes is alleged to have said, “the game’s afoot!” Hopefully you are recharged and ready to dive into our 2025 programs. Here’s what one of our members wrote when she realized she had not received the December newsletter: “Please email this information to me as…
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Message from the President-December 2024
Time to Renew Your Membership Happy December, Friends! Recently I read an interesting article in the New York Times about the rise of “healing fiction,” that is cozy, whimsical novels often featuring magical cats. These books have exploded into blockbusters, providing comfort and hope during chaotic times—we certainly live in those. But we who are members…
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Message from the President–April 2024
A Season to Beat All Seasons! Dear Friends, I’d like to give heartfelt thanks to all the volunteers and members who’ve made this year possible. We tell prospective board members that we are a working board, and boy is that true! Each board member contributed much energy to this successful season, bringing you four book…