I want to take this opportunity to thank all our loyal donors for their contributions. We are grateful that the FAL community shares our love of and vision for public libraries. We are also grateful that the FAL community shares our enjoyment of the Friends @ Home author and docent talks.
Friends
The Friends of the Alameda Free Library (FAL) is accepting applications from members of the Alameda community who would like to serve on our Board of Directors. We are looking for applicants who reflect the diversity of the Alameda community and would like to enhance their leadership skills while advocating
Community Events
On January 19th, the Friends were joined by investigative reporter Larissa Zimberoff for a discussion of her new book Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley’s Mission to Change What We Eat, which describes the paradigm shift transforming the food we eat and the companies behind it. Click on the video
First, we will be holding three pop-up sales in the Stafford Room of the Main Library (click here for exact dates). Sign up for our newsletter to stay informed about date changes and additional pop-up sales. Starting in Spring 2022, a book sale space called Books for Friends will open
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I hope this holiday season was a brief respite for you to safely enjoy friends and family after many postponed get-togethers. Unfortunately, we are still facing COVID variants. Yet we are grateful for so much. While I hesitate to mention individual volunteers, I want make an exception and acknowledge the
Community Events
On December 13th, playwright Lauren Gunderson was joined in conversation with Mary Ellen Hunt for this FAL-hosted event. Lauren Gunderson has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list twice including 2019/20. Her newest play Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley, co-written with
Community Events
On November 17th, the Friends of the Alameda Free Library was joined by New York Times bestselling author Carol Edgarian who discussed her new novel Vera, a grand adventure set in 1906 San Francisco — a city leveled by quake and fire, greed and corruption — featuring an indomitable heroine coming of
This year has been hard. And it still is hard. Because of your support, the Alameda Free Library has weathered an extraordinary year. But we still need your help. Please consider a gift to the Annual Fund today. As a reminder, the Taxpayer Certainty and Disaster Tax Relief Act of
On November 10th, the Friends were joined by art docent Avril Angevine for a presentation on the work of American artists such as Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Franz Kline, Helen Frankenthaler, Sam Gilliam, and many more who produced big, juicy, painterly works of abstract art, emotion-filled and
We will be opening a small used book store in the library near Dewey's Cafe. We are planning a soft opening sometime in January 2022. Updates will be made on our website and in the January e-newsletter (to sign up for our newsletters, click here). Stay tuned! We
As this is the last newsletter for 2021, I want to look back on the past year and give a sneak peek at 2022. Without the ability to hold in-person events, we organized very successful Friends @ Home art docent and author talks. Over the past 18 months, 5,180 people