Things We Do & Sponsor:
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Storytellers for
Children
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Ashland Mystery Readers
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Author Nights
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Summer Reading Programs
for Children & Young Adults
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Help librarians better
serve Ashland!
WE ARE FRIENDS TO AN OPEN LIBRARY - THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY.
ASHLAND
LIBRARY HOURS:
Mon 10 - 8
Tues and Wed 10 - 6
Thurs and Sat 12 - 5
Sun 12 - 4
410 Siskiyou Boulevard
Ashland, Oregon 97520
541-774-6996
HOLIDAY CLOSURE
All branches of Jackson
County Library Services will be closed on Monday,
September 1, 2008 in observance of Labor Day.
LINK TO JACKSON COUNTY LIBRARY SERVICES:
http://www.jcls.org/
Special Events at the Ashland Library:
(More Events)
Storytimes -
happen regularly at the library. Monday nights from 6:30-7:00 pm, Tuesdays
from 11:30-12 noon, and Wednesdays from 10:30-11:00 am.
Summer Reading -
for children and teens - programs, prizes, storytellers - check it out.
Jackson County
Reads- What happens when everyone in a community reads the same book?
Free computer classes continue at the Ashland Branch Library on Thursday mornings
from 9:30-11:30. The August series will continue the basic classes already taught,
so mousing skills are required for the following classes.
Thursday, August 7 - Internet Searching II - Explore and Learn.
Thursday, August 14 - Word Processing II.
Thursday, August 21 - Email Skills II is for those who already have an email account.
And this series concludes on Thursday, August 28 with Library Skills- Exploring
some of the Library Databases.
Classes fill quickly so call to reserve a spot, 774-6996.

Author Night at the Library Featuring Patricia Broersma, Author of Riding Into Your
Mythic Life.
Patricia Broersma will be speaking at Author Night at the Ashland Library on Monday,
September 8, from 7 to 8 p.m. Following a ten-year career as a horse trainer and
instructor, Patricia Broersma turned to therapeutic riding sixteen years ago. She founded
and directed a non-profit therapeutic riding program in San Antonio, Texas, and went on
to re-establish, direct, and act as head instructor for HOPE Equestrian Center in Ashland,
Oregon. As she says "The book brings my work as a therapeutic riding instructor with
horses together with my studies in myth and body based healing modalities. It offers
horse enthusiasts and professionals, as well as therapists, educators, and lay readers,
the opportunity to explore and expand human potential through powerful experiences with
horses and myth." Author night is sponsored by the Friends of the Ashland Public Library.
For more information: Ashland Branch Library Reference Department 541 774-6996.
Book Discussion Group
The Elastic Mind Book Discussion Group will meet Thursday September 4 from 1:00 to 2:30
at the Ashland Public Library to discuss "Changes in Attitude Towards The Career Woman".
Suggested readings include Susan Quinn's Marie Curie: A Life, Madeleine Albright's Madam
Secretary, a biography of Eleanor Roosevelt or a book of your choice. This lively
discussion group, sponsored by the The Friends of the Ashland Public Library and led by
Joanna Fenn, invite all to come and join in.
For more information call 774-6996.

Books On Sale: Prices will vary.
Novels, Self-Help, Travel,
Sports, Young Adult, Children, Reference, Drama, Art, History,
Foreign Language and more!
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Paperback Books:
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Hardback Books:
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Special Books:
Tightwad Tuesday: Every third Tuesday
of the month.
Books donated to the
Friends of the Ashland Public Library are considered tax deductible. All proceeds support
the Ashland
Public Library! To donate books, please contact the Friends:
info@ashlandfriends.org or the Ashland Library at 541-774-6996,
410 Siskiyou Blvd., Ashland, OR 97520.
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LINK TO JACKSON COUNTY LIBRARY SERVICES:
http://www.jcls.org/
Link to:
Citizen's Library Advisory Committee
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The Closing of the Library
One by one they fall silent
Hamlet in mid-question: To be, or
Molly Bloom before she says Yes
And the author, met by chance, who would have
Spoken the missing words, and changed a child's life
One by one they drop into the dark
The drawings of Michelangelo
Ansel Adam's pages of captured light
Albums of the most antique rockets
And the most modern dinosaurs, gone
This is a choice we make today, uncompelled
To spend our money on something else
Instead of books, or the public good
We choose the private thing
The silent, and the dark
Then words return, and I remember:
"Do not go gentle into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
Books have a loud and soundless speech
And light that comes from their light alone
So as each book is a written-out hope
For remembrance and mercy and understanding
And each library is a promise to the child and to the town
So I must believe that no book is forever closed
And that every library will, tomorrow, open
Pepper Trail
written in the Ashland Public Library
March 23, 2007

Friends of
the Ashland Public Library Annual Meeting, held on February 4, 2008. Sue
Lopez, President, conducts the meeting.

A view of
Grizzly Peak from the Ashland Public Library.

An early morning view from a front window
of the Ashland Public Library.
Tax Deductible contributions may be
submitted at the Ashland
Library or sent to P.O. Box 91, Ashland, OR 97520.
Click here
for a donation form.
© 2008 Friends of the Ashland
Public Library.
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