2009 Operating Budget Vote Results
YES 1,375 NO 336
Thank you for your support!
The Board of Trustees and staff of the Great Neck Library appreciate the support of the community as shown by the overwhelming approval of the 2009 operating budget.
The Board is ever vigilant of its fiscal responsibilities as it constructs a budget that anticipates the needs of Library users – from the youngest members of our community to our seniors – for costs that will occur 18 months into the future. We are pleased that the Library can continue to provide services for the Great Neck community in 2009.
COMING TO THE STATION BRANCH this fall
STATION SUNRISE
Wake up and smell the classics!
The popular Station After Dark book group is expanding. The Tuesday meeting has always filled quickly. Beginning in September, we will repeat the Tuesday program on Wednesday mornings.
Like Station After Dark, Station Sunrise is not a book talk or a performance, but a participatory group in which opinionated people who like to share their views are welcome. Please bring your love of reading, your reading experience, and your enjoyment of sharing books and ideas with others.
Our challenging reading lists of past years have encompassed contemporary classics like Underworld and A Confederacy of Dunces, and international Nobel-Prize winners like Snow and Soul Mountain. Ask for this year’s list and meeting dates. Books are available each month at the branch for book group attendees.
We will meet from September ‘08 to June ‘09, usually on the first Wednesday of each month, 8:45 – 10:00 a.m. Because of our space restrictions, attendance is strictly limited to 15 people , so you MUST register for the meetings by calling Station, beginning Monday, July 7 at 466-8055, ext. 233. Call early, because the sessions tend to fill up quickly.
Blood Shortage on Long Island
Great Neck Library
Community Blood Drive
Thursday, July 3, 2008
1:30 - 7:00 p.m.
159 Bayview Avenue, Great Neck
Eligibility Criteria:
*Bring valid ID and know your social security number
*Minimum weight is 110 lbs.
*Age 17-75
*Age 16 with parental permission
*Age 76 or older, a doctor’s note is required
*Eat well (low fat) & drink lots of fluids
FOR MEDICAL QUESTIONS CONCERNING
BLOOD DONATIONS CALL 1-800-688-0900
Please Save A Life! Be generous and donate at the Library Blood Drive which will be given by the
Long Island Blood Services.
More than 800 donations are needed daily in 50 Long Island Hospitals. Please roll up your sleeves and help the community by donating blood today.
To make an appointment call Grace Ferrara at 466-8055, ext. 246 or ext. 208.
NEW LARGE TYPE BOOKS
Fiction:
Andrews, Mary Kay. Deep Dish
Chabon, Michael. Gentlemen of the Road
Clark, Mary Higgins. Where Are You Now?
Coben, Harlan. Hold Tight
Coetzee, J.M. Diary of a Bad Year
Fairstein, Linda. Killer Heat
Gross, Andrew. Dark Tide
Hoffman, Alice. Third Angel
Johansen, Iris. Quicksand
Johnson, Denis. Tree of Smoke
Kellerman, Jonathan. Compulsion: An Alex Delaware Novel
King, Stephen. Duma Key
Lahiri, Jhumpa. Unaccustomed Earth
Lescroart, John. Betrayal
Levien, David. City of the Sun
McCall Smith, Alexander The Miracle at Speedy Motors
Perry, Anne. Buckingham Palace Gardens
Robards, Karen. Guilty
Robb, J.D. Strangers in Death
Scottoline, Lisa. Lady Killer
Tsukiyama, Gail. The Street of a Thousand Blossoms
Wambaugh, Joseph. Hollywood Crows
Woods, Stuart. Santa Fe Dead
Non-Fiction:
Andrews, Julie. Home: A Memoir of My Early Years LT/B-Andrews/A
Jacobs, A.J. The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible LT/220/J
Lear, Martha Weinman. Where Did I Leave My Glasses?: The What, When, and Why of Normal Memory Loss LT/155.67/L
Mendelsohn, Daniel. The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million LT/940.5318/M
Pausch, Randy with Jeffrey Zaslow. The Last Lecture LT/170.44/P
Turner, Kathleen and Gloria Feldt. Send Yourself Roses: Thoughts on My Life, Love, and Leading Roles LT/792.02-Turner/T
Weiner, Eric. The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World LT/910.4/W
compiled by Librarian Camille Perri 6/08
Biographical Notes on our Speakers
Michael D'Innocenzo teaches at Hofstra University where he is the “Harry H. Wachtel Distinguished Teaching Professor for the Study of Nonviolent Social Change.”
Seena Edelman retired from teaching in order to devote her time to film history. Her programs have been presented in libraries, senior centers, Ys, and private groups for the last 13 years.
Charles Fine has been a docent and tour guide (Lower East Side) for the 92nd Street Y since 1993. He is also a volunteer for the Jewish Community Council of Crown Heights, for whom he collects and delivers furniture, clothing and other items for new Russian Jewish immigrants.
John Hanc is a long-time contributing writer for Newsday. His work has also appeared in the Smithsonian, The New York Times, Runner’s World, AARP Bulletin and the Boston Globe Sunday Magazine. Hanc, who teaches journalism at the New York Institute of Technology in Old Westbury, NY, is the author of six previous books.
Historian E.A. (Bud) Livingston is a lecturer and teacher at Adult Education programs at Hofstra University, Hunter College, Queensborough Community College, Queens College and Cooper Union. Among his many speeches is “The Brooklyn Dodgers 1939-1957.”
Ellen Parker is a retired professor from Hofstra University in the field of Speech Language Science. She loves to read and has been a member of the same book group for over 25 years.
Tom Philbin is the author of 30 books on the home, including “How to Hire A Home Improvement Contractor Without Getting Chiseled” (St. Martin’s Press), a Library Journal bestseller.
Fern Reidman practices in the area of elder law, trusts and estates, and estate litigation. She is a graduate of Cornell University. Fern has been appointed to oversee and protect the varying interests of people in estates by Surrogate’s Court in many counties and serves as a NASD arbitrator. Her office is in Great Neck where she is in private practice. Fern is on the faculty at Great Neck Adult Center and has made television appearances.
