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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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…
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Become One of Our Valued Sponsors!
Interested in helping us to support the Key West Library? Please click here for a list of current opportunities and financial levels. Why support the Friends? It is the mission of the Friends, a volunteer-based organization, to support the Key West Library, a critical resource for the citizens of Key West. We pride ourselves on prudent stewardship and…
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Jimmy Buffett Thanks the Key West Library
On the death of Jimmy Buffett, Key West experienced an outpouring of grief unlike anywhere else in the country. To a large extent Buffett made our island paradise what it is today. Friends of the Library Board Member Annette Holmstrom found a letter from Buffett in the archives of the remarkable Florida Keys History Center.…
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Popular Palm Garden Book Sales to Resume December 2
The Friends of the Key West Library will conduct the first book sale of the season on Saturday, December 2, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Palm Garden at 700 Fleming Street. For a list of future book sales, click here. New donations have replenished our inventory, so grab your tote bag and…
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Membership Drive Held in October
The Friends of the Key West Library conducted a membership drive from October 16 to October 19 in the library. Friends were available to explain the benefits of membership, answer any additional inquiries, and accept new and renewal memberships. The new 2023-2024 trifold brochures were available to distribute and were very popular. The trifolds included…
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