Friends of the Ashland Public Library

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.

NEW!!! FANTASTIC BOOK SALE!!! BOOKS - BARGAINS - MORE!!!

Books On Sale: Prices will vary. Novels, Self-Help, Travel, Sports, Young Adult, Children, Reference, Drama, Art, History, Foreign Language and more!

Paperback Books:

Hardback Books:

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.