Friends Of The Foley Public Library
Edelmiro Jimale
The friends will also hold a special preview sale for members on Thursday, Feb. 6 from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Memberships will be available at the door. Annual memberships are $10 for an individual and $15 for a family.
The Friends of Foley Public Library is a nonprofit group that generates funding for Foley Public Library and related literacy projects. More information is available at foleylibrary.org/friends-of-the-library
This year's event, set to take place on Feb. 8, 9 and 10 at the Foley Civic Center, promises an extensive collection of approximately 12,000 books, along with numerous music CDs, DVDs and various other forms of media.
The sale event kicks off with a special preview for Friends of the Foley Library members on Thursday, Feb. 8, from 1 to 4 p.m., giving them an exclusive first-look at diverse offerings. Anyone can sign up for a membership and memberships, priced at $10 for individuals and $15 for families, can be obtained at the door.
The main sale event opens its doors to the public on Friday, Feb. 9, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., continuing on Saturday, Feb. 10, from 9 a.m. to noon. On Saturday, attendees can seize an opportunity to fill a Tanger shopping bag with books for just $5.
Situated at the Foley Civic Center, 407 E. Laurel Ave., Foley, this event is a cash and checks-only affair. The sale features a vast array of genres, including science fiction, art, children's literature, pop fiction, cooking, history, biography and large-format photo books. All items are offered at discounted prices, providing an opportunity for book enthusiasts to build their personal libraries.
The Friends of the Foley Public Library, a nonprofit, organizes the annual book sale as a fundraiser for the library and related literacy projects. Proceeds contribute to enhancing library services and supporting literacy initiatives within the Foley community.
If you would like to help the Friends of the Foley Public Library continue to provide library services, you can donate to their efforts. Every donation, no matter how small, contributes to enhancing library services and supporting literacy initiatives within the Foley community.
The Friends of the Foley Public Library accepts books, CDs, DVDs and puzzles in good condition. All donated items may be contributed to the Friends of the Foley Library to sell in their bookstore or at their annual book sale. As a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, the Friends of the Foley Library was formed to help supplement the library's materials/services and raise the library's profile in the community. All donations to the Friends of the Library are tax-deductible, and 100% of the proceeds go to help the Foley Public Library.
All contributions make an impact, providing funding for author visits, genealogy programs, part-time library help, summer reading programs, movie and music presentations, library equipment and supplies, eBooks, software and mobile apps, as well as book donations to Foley Elementary.
Claire Connors has worked at the Islington Branch Library since 2005. Claire runs the Islington Branch Book Group, the Historical Fiction Book Group, the monthly Night Knitting, and a weekly Sit and Knit program. She loves to find new authors and explore their past titles. She likes summer reads, mysteries, and thrillers and loves to talk about books. Outside of work, Claire enjoys spending time with family, walking, yoga, gardening, and traveling.
Zo Dickerson has worked at the Westwood Public Libraries since 2022. She enjoys reading nonfiction, mystery, and procedurals. When not at work, Zo enjoys traveling, hiking, and exploring the world through reading and photography.
Caroline Tighe is a Library Assistant at the Westwood Public Libraries. When not at work, she enjoys spending time with her husband, three children, and two dogs. She is an avid reader who has recently surpassed her goal of one hundred books a year. She enjoys all genres, particularly thriller and young adult novels. Her favorite authors include Stephen King, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Alice Hoffman, and Beverly Cleary.
Linda Skerry has worked at the Westwood Public Libraries since 2014. Linda enjoys reading historical fiction and fun beach reads. She also enjoys spending time with her family, meeting up with friends, and traveling. In her previous life, she worked for a travel company and visited many exciting places.
Melisa Jonic has worked at the Westwood Public Libraries since 2023 at the Circulation Department and the Islington Branch. When not working, she enjoys spending time with family and friends, crafting, singing, laughing, and listening to the Smartless podcast. She reads mostly fiction, with a preference for Rom-Coms, and always tries to read the book prior to watching the movie version. Favorite authors include Kristen Hannah and Elin Hilderbrand.
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The Doris Foley Library for Historical Research (formerly, Nevada City Free Public Library and Nevada City Library; colloquially: Carnegie Library or Foley)[2] is a reference and research library in Nevada City, in Nevada County, California. Built in 1907, the Romanesque Revival style building is currently a branch of the Nevada County Library System Archived 2010-08-24 at the Wayback Machine.[3]
With beginnings as an 1849 mining town, Nevada City had a reading room as early as 1850. Becoming a settlement, it boasted a library association in less than a decade, followed by a YMCA reading room and library in 1869. Ownership of an Odd Fellows Library that was established 1874, was transferred to the city in 1902, and the library was moved to the Corcoran Building next to the historic Nevada Theatre.
The women of Nevada City urged the library trustees to seek Carnegie funds, and, in 1904, the trustees received a grant for $10,000. Bids were opened the following year, and the estimated completion date of a new library was 1906.[4] As the library committee believed it might receive an additional $5,000 from Carnegie, plans were made for a more elaborate building, but on October 13, 1905, the trustees were notified there would be no additional funding, necessitating changes to the plans.[5] William H. Weeks was the architect, while Watsonville's W.J. Wilkerson of Graniterock[6] was the builder. Organized as the Civic Improvement Club, the city's women were the landscape planners.[7] Furnishings cost $1,000.[8] The library was dedicated on October 4, 1907.
Situated in a historic Carnegie library building, it was placed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1990.[7] Another Carnegie library and NRHP, Grass Valley's Royce Library, is in the neighboring town. The Foley is located at 211 North Pine Street, on the southwest corner of Pine and York streets, across from the Nevada County Court House. It is situated on a steeply sloping lot, 150 ft (46 m) by 50 ft (15 m), purchased by the city from the county at a cost of $700.[8]
The building was designed in a Romanesque Revival architectural style by Weeks, the architect of several other Northern California Carnegie libraries. The seven room, single story plus basement building was constructed by Wilkerson using dark gray man-made stone, plus both rough and smooth concrete blocks, fabricated on location.[7] It features a dark brick facade, now painted white, and a partially exposed cement foundation. A cement stairway leads from the road to the arched doorways.
Two arched windows are situated in the foyer, the side one being smaller, and the larger front one being of stained glass depicting the lamp of knowledge. There are numerous other windows, rectangular in shape.[11]
After the Madelyn Helling Library was built in the Nevada County's Rood Administrative Center in the late 1990s, the Carnegie library became a research and reference library for local history and the California Gold Rush. On May 17, 1997, it was renamed the Doris Foley Library for Historical Research Archived 2010-12-18 at the Wayback Machine in honor of local teacher, historian and writer, Doris Foley,[13] the wife of a gold-mining engineer.[14][3]
In October 2003, the library received the Arthur Cecil Todd Cornish Studies Collection,[19] named in honor of Dr. Todd, author of The Cornish Miner in America: The Contribution to the Mining History of the United States by Emigrant Cornish Miners--The Men Called Cousin Jacks.[20]
Though the Foley was in jeopardy of closing in July 2009 because of county budget cuts,[21] financial support from the Friends of the Library allows it to remain open to the public Thursday, Friday and Saturday 10am-4pm.[22][23]
Jon's death is a huge blow to so many people, above all to his wife, Susan, and family to whom Jon was so clearly devoted. Jon was known to me by name long before I actually met him. He was an enormous help to my step-grandmother, Jean Conan Doyle. It was a rare stay with her when I did not hear of his latest fight on her behalf either to burnish her father's reputation or to defend her intellectual property rights in the USA. When Jon persuaded me, together with Cathy Beggs and Richard Doyle, to take over the running of the Conan Doyle Estate, it was with a sense of foreboding. Was my life going to be taken over by Doyle and Sherlock Holmes? But Jon acted as our guide and mentor to keep us safe from what he often called "The Curse of Doyle". There is so much I will miss - his clarity of thought; his no-nonsense, straight-to-the-point emails; his prodigious memory for sometimes the most arcane facts, retrieved if not immediately from his "brain attic" then within hours from the "lumber room of his library"; his stories of his own experiences abroad, serving his country, whenever I wrote to him from some part of Central and Eastern Europe; and his desert-dry sense of humour. He was not only a clever man, he was a witty one too. And a great patriot and public servant. A good man has left us.
Richard Pooley