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ELIZABETH ANDREW
President Of The Friends Of The Long Beach Public Library
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE ..1-3
Hello, I’m the newly elected President, Elizabeth
Andrew. Before I introduce myself, I want to
recognize and give many thanks to Jo Rae
Zuckerman who served for 8 years as our
President and Marie Treadwell who shared the
position with Jo Rae over the last two years.
As most of you know, the legacy Jo Rae leaves behind is impressive and extensive. So many accomplishments and honors that could surly fill this newsletter and possibly even the next one. Both Marie and
Jo Rae continue to be Board members, and I rely on
their collective wisdom, history and insight.
So who am I? I was recruited to be on the
Friends board over four years ago by Marve’
Watkins-King, dear friend and Friends board
member. We met at a book club where
Marve’ invited me to attend a Friends’ board
meeting. Just thinking that I was an observer,
you can imagine my surprise when at the
end of my first board meeting, Jo Rae Zuckerman, President,
warmly greeted me, and said that she was excited that I (apparently) had volunteered to fill an opening for Recording Secretary.
Since I had recently taken early retirement, I thought this would be
a great way to keep me interested and occupied.
I happily and gratefully held the Recording Secretary position
until last May when I received four phone calls asking if I would
consider being the Friends’ President. I said “no” three times, but
the wonderful Nominating Committee finally wore me down, and
by the fourth phone call and request I gladly and happily said
yes.
BOOK STORE ......................2
MEMORIAL BOOKS ...........3-4
GIFT RECEIVED..........................4
DIRECTOR’S REPORT .......5-6
VICE PRESIDENT.................5-6
MEMORIAL BOOKS .................6-7
HONOR BOOKS .....................7-9
ANNUAL MEETING PICS.... 10
PRIDE PARADE PICS ........ 11
MEMBERSHIP ............................12
Barbara McPherson
Newsletter Editor
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I’ve resided in the Los Altos neighborhood of
Long Beach for 28 years. I retired early in
2009 after a 30+ year career in Human Resources Management, mostly in Aerospace. So
instead of working 60 hours a week and commuting all over LA and
Orange County, I now
enjoy reading by my
pool and tending my
urban vegetable garden
conveniently located in
my flower beds. I enjoy
staying active and go
biking or swimming
daily. While my 2 cats aren’t on board with my
plant based vegetarian lifestyle, they are willing
to tolerate it as long as they get their daily
chicken and salmon.
Indiana is where I grew up with two brothers
on a 2,000 acre agricultural farm with hogs,
cattle and sheep, 10 miles from the nearest
town (think Little House on the Prairie). My
brothers and most of my 12 great nieces and
nephews are still in Indiana, as well as an exhusband. I attended Ball State University in
Muncie, IN, where I received a Bachelor degree
in Speech and Hearing Pathology, Special Education
and Deaf Education. In
1981, jobs in the Midwest
took a hard hit, so I decided to look for a better
environment and warmer
weather, that’s when I
packed up my Ford Pinto and camped my
way across the US, finally arriving in California
where I knew I’d found a new home.
Being an early lover of books and libraries, you
could find me every day after school across
the street at the library hunting for the most
fun and obscure books in the shelves. As a
grade schooler, I thoroughly enjoyed the large
hardback books of the cartoons
from the New Yorker magazine.
Now, I mostly enjoy fictional history, legal dramas, CSI intrigues,
and Bill Bryson’s books, yet Atlas
Shrugged still remains my favorite
book. Traveling with my boyfriend
of 7 years is another one of my
great pleasures. I would most
definitely return to Australia, Hawaii or Paris in
a heartbeat, but have started on a wish list:
Antarctica, the Galapagos Islands, and Ireland
where the family is from.
Currently, I sit on several other boards: Advisory Board for the Lifetime Learning Center at
Long Beach City College, Long Beach Neighborhoods First, and HUSH2.
Let me share one highlight from this summer
which was being a member of a team consisting
of Foundation and Friends Board Members, and
Library staff. We were
invited to speak at the
American Library Association (ALA) National Conference in
San Francisco.
In 2013, on
behalf of the
Friends, Barbara Egyud,
applied for and
won the CitizensSave-Libraries grant. The grant supplied specific
training to help develop a blueprint for advocacy
campaigns to restore, increase and save threatened
library budgets. In San Francisco we spoke at 2 sessions highlighting how we applied the grant training
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and shared our personal experiences in creating and
maintaining our highly successful working relationship
between the Friends, The Foundation and the Library.
My wish list for the next two years is too long
for this column. Attending the conference gave
me many ideas on how we can have fun
events and raise money for our library. Anyone interested in a food truck
event called: Beer, Brats and
Books, or maybe an Antiques Road
Show type of event, let the Friends
know. So many ideas and these
can include our Friends members volunteering
to assist in all this fun. Maybe one of you
would like to help us research the value of many of
the wonderful coffee-table
books donated to us and
help us sell these at our
book store. There are many
ways for you to assist. Let me know your
ideas about how you think we can have fun
and raise extra money for Main and our
Neighborhood Branches.
BOOK STORE
by Barbara Hubbs, Director Of The Book Store
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The grand opening of the
Friends of the Library bookstore at the Main Library
took place in 2001. It had
been the dream of Eleanor Schmidt to sell
donated books to earn money for the library’s
materials budget. It took awhile to realign
some doorways, but what had been a more or
less wasted space became a productive, functioning enterprise.
backs are still one dollar. Trade paperbacks
have increased and so have regular paperbacks.
They now sell for one dollar and seventy-five
cents respectively. Magazines are still twenty-five
cents, but the supply has dwindled. Supply and
demand have caused the price of VCR tapes to
fall to twenty-five cents. CD’s are still twenty-five
cents. We sell DVD’s for one dollar. Most of
these are library discards.
We have also introduced
a monthly silent auction
which features quality
books that have been
donated. The prices are
very reasonable. You cannot bid on-line, but you
can find a listing of our offerings on the Support the Library website which is part of the
lbpl.org website. Hope to see you at the bookstore.
GIFT RECEIVED
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
of the LONG BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION, in
honor of the Marriage
of MARGARET SMITH
and ROB BELLEVUE
Throughout its fourteen
years of operation, prices
have remained stable. Hard-
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DIRECTOR’S REPORT
by Glenda Williams
Director of Library Services
FY 2016 Budget Update
City Council passed the FY 2016
budget on Tuesday, September
15, 2015. The budget will take
effect October 1. The City realized a small budget surplus of
$630,000 for the year, which means there
weren’t any budget cuts. For FY 2016 the Long
Beach Public Library will re-position staffing to
concentrate on marketing library programs and
events, as well as focus on human resource
functions. In addition, City Council approved
Mayor Garcia’s recommendation to open three
branch libraries on Sundays
and allocated $183,000 for
the city-wide pilot program.
The three chosen libraries
are Bay Shore, Burnett and
North. The libraries will be
open in October from 12
noon to 4 p.m.
New Branch Services Manager
I am pleased to announce the appointment of
Donald Rowe as the new
Manager of Branch Library
Services. Don comes to Long
Beach from the County of Los
Angeles Public Library system.
His most recent position was
the Assistant Regional Administrator of West Region where he was responsible for managing library services for 17
beach city and South Bay branch libraries. Don
was also intimately involved with the staffing
and move-in of the new 2-story, state of the
art Manhattan Beach Library. His experience
will be critical as we prepare to open the new
North Library in the summer of 2016. Don received his Master’s Degree in Library and Information Sciences from San Jose State University and has 14 years of library experience.
Rendering of the exterior entrance to the new North
Neighborhood library including incorporation of the Atlantic Theatre's iconic spire.
Summer Reading Club
More than 5,700 children, teens and adults participated in this year's Summer Reading Club
(SRC)! The theme for this year was “Every Hero
Has a Story.” Participants logged almost 600,000
minutes read (children) and 3,658 books were
read by participating teens and adults! A variety
of programs were made available with funds from
the Friends of Long Beach Public Library including: Buster Balloon Show
(comedy, mind-boggling
magic and balloon twisting expertise all in one);
Percussive Storyteller
(percussion music accompanied a high energy storytelling performance);
and Swazzle (Super Conductor, the hero, went on
a hilarious musical quest to rescue Melody, Harmony and Rhythm from the clutches of the villainous Decomposer). Everyone had a fabulous time
enjoying the performances and reading during the
summer. This is very important to keep young
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minds sharp and ready to learn when school begins in the fall.
website at www.lbpl.org. Take it for a drive today (pun
intended)!
In addition, this summer we incorporated STEAM
(Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Mathematics) programming at The Studio in the Main
Library as part of our SRC. We partnered with
Google and hosted Maker Camp 2015: novice
makers were invited to build,
tinker and explore for six weeks.
A variety of fun projects were
completed and epic virtual field
trips were enjoyed with the
guidance of “camp counselors.” Weekly themes
included Fantasy, Funkytown, Farmstead, Flight,
Fun and Games and Far-Out Future.
JAN LOVIE
Last, but not least, we also partnered with Shared
Science to host four weeks of LEGO Robotics fun.
Classes covered an introduction to
LEGO Mindstorm Robots, Programming Robot Turns, Using
Robot Sensors and concluded
with the Robot Challenge. This
was one of the best Summer
Reading Clubs ever! New Online Resource
Driving-Tests.org, a company
dedicated to driver safety and
education, offers free Department of Motor Vehicle (DMV)
practice tests to library patrons.
The new service provides free tests, written specifically based on the State of California DMV materials, and includes accessibility tools that allow
users to hear selections read aloud, make them
into MP3s, translate pages into other languages,
magnify text and mask sections of the screen for
greater visibility on driving practice tests.
Driving-Tests.org is available now on the Library's
Vice President of the Friends
Jan’s next door neighbor, Pat
Whelan, a book store owner in
Los Altos, was on the Friend’s
board and got her interested in
the Friends. She volunteered in
our bookstore for years and
still helps out occasionally.
Then about 10 years ago,
Bernice Van Steenbergen,
also a former board member, spoke to Jan
about becoming the VP who is responsible for
membership and renewals.
Jan picks up membership envelopes from the
library, lists the incoming money/checks and
forwards that to our treasurer Doris Soriano.
She also writes the acknowledgments of payment we have all received, and then coordinates with Linda Bresnan, our Honor Book
chair, about new and renewing Super Friends.
She also phones or mails reminder letters to
those who may have forgotten to renew.
Born in LA, Jan lived in Illinois from ages 211 before her family settled in Long Beach.
She’s been married 54 years to Winston (Win),
who was the boy next door. Jan retired 20
years ago after 42 years in corporate banking
with Bank of America. Now she and Win often play golf and work together at their Long
Beach Community Garden
plot where pink tomatoes
are her favorite crop to
grow and eat.
Jan loves to travel and has been around most
of the world, once playing polo on painted ele-
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phants during a trip to India with National Geographic.
Typically, she visits her Norwegian
cousins every couple of years.
Coming up is a cruise to Mexico
and South America through the
Panama Canal, followed later by a
cruise to Rio de Janeiro.
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Her favorite reading includes
general fiction and mysteries: several favorite authors
include Margaret Truman,
Barbara Taylor Bradford,
James Patterson, Robert
Ludlum, and Pat Conroy.
MEMORIAL BOOKS by Sandra Kroll
If you would like to
help purchase books or
other materials for the
library and at the same
time create a lasting memorial, send your check
to: Friends of the Long Beach Public Library, 101
Pacific Ave., Long Beach, CA, 90822.
Please include contact information for a family member
so that we can consult with them about suitable
materials to purchase. The acknowledgment we send to
you serves as your receipt, for tax purposes. Gift books
are posted with special bookplates bearing honorees’
names.
IN MEMORY OF BERYL JARRETT:
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Day Hikes Around Los
Angeles: 160 Great Hikes
by Robert Stone
London for Lovers: Romantic Days and Nights
Out in the City by Sam
Hodges
FROM HER FRIENDS AT BOOK CLUB IN
DEAREST MEMORY OF JOAN FRAZIER:
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The Good Girl by Mary Cubic
Tell the Wolves I'm Home by
Carol Rifka Brunt
Wives of Los Alamos
TeraShea Nesbit
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Secret Keeper by Kate Morton
Learning to Swim by Sara
J. Henry
Queen of Bright and Shiny
Things by Ann Aguirre
Fireproof Home for the Bride
by Amy Scheibe
FROM JEAN T. DELLERT IN MEMORY OF DR.
CHARLES MORRELL:
Dear Mister Essay Writer
THE CSULB FACULTY WIVES BOOK
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Guy: Advice and ConfesCLUB IN MEMORY OF PHYLLIS STEINER:
sions on Writing, Love, and
S • The Buildings That Revolutionized Architec- Cannibals by Dinty W.
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Creating with Concrete and Mosaic by Susanna Zacke
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Jack London: Q Writer’s Fight
for a Better America by Cecelia Tichi.
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HONOR BOOKS by Linda Bresnan
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For all of our valued Super Friends a change has
been made in the procedure of choosing ‘Honor
Books’ & Branches. In the future, librarians will
make their selections of Honor Books & Branches
where they are most needed. This process will
enable them to quickly choose a book(s) from
their present Wish List and will prevent duplicates
from going to the same Branches. Super Friends
will be notified of the title(s) selected and in what
Branch they’ve been placed. Again, we thank you
ever so much for your continued support, especially in these times of loss of revenue and staffing changes that have affected many of our
processes and procedures in this past year in
selecting ‘Honor Books.’
‘SUPER FRIENDS’
Those who have contributed $100 or more
in their membership for 2015.
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TAMARA ACHAUER
ELIZABETH ANDREW
BETTY JEAN BARNECUT
ROBERT C. BELLINGER
TARA BENDER
MARILYN BRASHER
LINDA BRESNAN
KAYE BRIEGEL
CLAUDINE & PAUL BURNETT
ELLEN BUTLER
FRAN & BILL CAHILL
JUDITH E. CAMERON
SANDRA CAULFIELD
JO ANNE & SCOTT CHARMACK
TOM CLARK
LOIS & GORDON COHN
CAROL COLLINS
DEBBY COLLINS
DONALDA CROSS
TRUDI & PATRICK CURRAN
SHIRLEY & STEVE DARLING
KATHY DeSILVA
MARGARET & CHARLES DURNIN
BARBARA DYKMANELIZABETH FOWLER
PAT GLOW
MARCIA & DONALD GORDON
DEBRA HAMANO & IRENE M. GRAFF
JOAN GUSTAFSONDORIS GYLSETH
BEVERLY & JOHN HARMS
CAROL HESSE
CORDELIA HOWARDEILEEN HUNTER
JAN JACKSON
GILLIAN KLINKERT
AGNES & DAVID KNIGHT
MYRA KREMEN
SANDY KROLL
ANN LEISY
DOWNTOWN LONG BEACH LIONS CLUB
Business Membership
FLORA & JEROME LOEB
HERMAN LONG
JAN & WINSTON LOVIE
MAGREE FAMILY
PATRICIA MANN
JANEICE V. McCONNELL
PHYLLIS METZGER
ROSANN & MIKE MONAGHAN
DAPHNE MUNZER
SYLVIA NAVARI
ART OLSEN
CECILIA OSBORN
JANET PHUN
JANET LIPSON & BRUCE POTTER
SUZANNE POULSEN
CAROL QUINLAN
SUSAN RICE
CLAUDIA SANTOS
DIANE SCHMITZ
SUSAN SCHRADER
JANE HANSEN & ALLEN SEWELL
JAMES P. SCOTT SHOTWELL
RENE SIMON
DORIS SORIANO
JULIE STINDT
DR. MICHAEL STUGRIN
BEVERLY STUNDEN
WANDA THOMPSON
MARIE TREADWELL
DR. MARY LOU WALLING
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UNDINE WILDMAN
LINDA WILSON
VASILIKI WITTER
MARY WOODLEY
AUDREY HYDE ZAHLER
JO RAE ZUCKERMAN *
Lifetime Member
HONOR BOOKS SELECTED FOR
NEW & RENEWING ‘SUPER FRIENDS’
FOR 2015
TAMARA ACHAUER:
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The Book of Broadway: the 150 Definitive
Plays and Musicals, by Eric Grode, for
Main
ELIZABETH ANDREW:
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Dead Soon Enough: a Juniper Song Mystery, by Steph Cha, for Main
Saga: Vol. 5, by Brian K. Vaughn, for Main
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ROBERT C. BELLINGER:
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The Renewable Energy
Home Handbook, by Lindsay Porter, for Alamitos
TARA BENDER:
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The Dress: 100 Ideas
that Changed Fashion
Forever, by Mamie Fogg,
for El Dorado
Enduring Values Revisited: Librarianship in an Ever-Changing World,
by Michael Gorman, for Main
KAYE BRIEGEL:
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J. M. W. Turner: Painting Set Free, by David
Blayney Brown, for Bay Shore
CLAUDINE & PAUL BURNETT:
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Art of Seamanship: Evolving Skills, Exploring
Oceans, and Handling Wind, Waves, and
Weather, by Ralph Naranjo for Main
ELLEN BUTLER:
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The Dressmaker: a Novel, by
Rosalie Ham, for Main
BETTY JEAN BARNECUT:
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The Night Stages: a Novel, by
Jane Urquhart, for Main
MARILYN BRASHER:
Spain: the Center of the World,
1519-1682, by Robert Goodwin,
for Mark Twain
Figure Drawing: Learn to Capture Dynamic Figures and Features in Graphite Pencil, by
Jennifer Gennari, for Bret
Harte
FRAN & BILL CAHILL:
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The Hirschfeld Century: Portrait of an Artist
and His Age, by David Leopold, for Brewitt
What’s That Rock or Mineral, by D. K. Publishing, for Alamitos
JUDITH CAMERON:
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The Last Love Song: a Biography of Joan Didion, by Tracy
Daugherty, for Los Altos
The Shell Collector’s Handbook: a Practical Field
Guide to Exploring the
World of Shells, by Kenneth
Wye, for Bay Shore
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SANDRA CAULFIELD:
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Habit Change: an Executive
Coach’s Step-By-Step Guide to
Defeating Unwanted Behaviors,
by Jeffrey P. Kaplan, for Brewitt
Exposed: a History of Lingerie, by Valerie Steele, for
Main
JO ANNE & SCOTT CHARMACK:
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Edward Gorey: His Book Cover
Art and Design, by Steven Heller,
for Main
50 Things You Need to Know About
Heaven, by Dr. John Hart, for Burnett
Natural Meditation: a Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice, by Dean Sluyter, for Mark Twain
There will be a partial list of Honor Books in
this newsletter with the balance of names in
the following one or two. The Friends are
overwhelmed and grateful by the number (77
From Barnum & Bailey to Feld: the Creative
Revolution of the Greatest Show on Earth,
by Ernest J. Albrecht, for Dana
Ezra Pound: Poet: a Portrait of the Man
and His Work, Vol. II, the Epic Years 1921
– 1939, by A. David Moody, for Main
101 Outstanding Graphic Novels, by Stephen Weiner, for Main
CAROL COLLINS:
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DONALDA CROSS:
VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGE ABOUT
THIS FALL’S HONOR BOOKS
LOIS & GORDON COHN:
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Heist!: the $17 Million Loomis Fargo Theft,
by Jeff Diamant, for North
The End of Tsarist Russia: the March to
World War I and Revolution, by D.C.B.
Lieven, for Alamitos
TOM CLARK:
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Remarkable Plants that Shape
Our World, by Helen Bynum,
for Mark Twain
10-Minute Hairstyles, by Andres Martins, for Bret Harte
Super Friends with 1,507 books chosen)
of Honor books.
If space were available,
we would certainly
print the entire list in
this newsletter. We are
so grateful for such a
good and generous
reponse. If you have access on your computer,
you can look up all the honor books that include our webpage link to the full list.
If you receive the newsletter online, you can
access the complete list by clicking on the link
http://www.lbpl.org/support/friends/default.asp
or, if you get the hard copy, type in the web
address that is included. The link/web address will take you to the Friends webpage on
the libraries webpage www.lbpl.org with the
entire list of Honor books.
DEBBIE COLLINS:
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So You Want to Sing Rock ‘n’ Roll: a
Guide for Professionals, by Matthew Edwards, for Burnett
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Patricia Benoit, Hospitality
Jo Rae Zuckerman, Co President
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The Friends of the Long
Beach Public Library
101 Pacific Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90822
NON- PROFIT ORG.
U.S. POSTAGE PAID
LONG BEACH, CA
PERMIT NO. 450
Our annual membership year is from June 1, 2015 - May 31, 2016. Have you renewed your membership? The
date above your name on your mailing label shows when your membership expires.
Your membership is important! Your contributions enable the Friends to purchase books and support other library
programs and activities. As a member of the Friends, you show your concern for maintaining the resources and
services of the Long Beach Public Library. You will be informed of the vital issues that affect the Library. We welcome contributions of any amount: both dues and contributions are tax deductible. A book will be donated to the
library in the name of each Super Friend. Thank you for your support.
Please use the this form for your renewal or give it to an acquaintance who might wish to join. Thank you for
joining the Friends of the Long Beach Public Library.
( ) New Member or ....................................( ) Renewal
( ) Senior Membership ................................$10
( ) Student Membership..............$15
( ) Individual Membership .........................$20
( ) Family Membership.................$25
( ) Super friend................................................$100 or more
( ) Patron Membership.................$75
( ) Business Membership ...........................$200 or more
( ) Lifetime Membership................$1,000 or more
I want to participate in the following way:
( ) Serve on the Friends of the Library Board of Directors
( ) Volunteer in the Book Store
Name.....................................................................................Address.................................................................................................................
Zip..............................Phone.............................................................Email.........................................................................................................
Please make checks payable to the Friends of the Long Beach Public Library, and mail to: Friends of the Long
Beach Public Library, 101 Pacific Ave., Long Beach, CA 90822. Your membership card will be mailed to you.
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