{"id":7630,"date":"2022-07-29T11:02:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/?p=7630"},"modified":"2022-07-29T11:02:20","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T15:02:20","slug":"note-from-nancy-august-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.andover.lib.oh.us\/live\/2022\/07\/29\/note-from-nancy-august-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Note From Nancy August 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Note From Nancy<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Recently,<\/strong><\/span> I had the privilege of attending the American Library Association\u2019s annual conference. It was like being a kid in a candy store! There were free books, authors, illustrators, and publishers galore.\u00a0\u00a0I brought back over 100 books, many of which will be published later this year. I had the chance to hear award-winning authors talk about their writing process and their upcoming books. I met other librarians from across the United States. I learned how they were serving their patrons and I picked their minds for ideas.\u00a0\u00a0It was an invigorating few days.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love the fact that libraries are a place where everyone can come to read, learn, and grow. I am inspired by how many of you come to enjoy and discover all the good reads and programs that The Andover Public Library has to offer. This year we had a great turnout for our Summer Reading Program. One hundred six (106) reading logs were turned in indicating over fifteen hundred (1,500) hours of reading during the 6 weeks of the program.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In her acknowledgments in her best-selling book Women Who Run With The Wolves<\/i><\/a>, author Clarissa\u00a0Pinkola<\/span>\u00a0Estes, gives her \u201cprofound gratitude\u201d to her \u201cmost essential teachers: All librarians, the keepers of the trea\u00adsure rooms filled with all of humanity\u2019s sighs, sorrows, hopes and\u00a0happinesses<\/span>\u00a0\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Best-selling author Mary\u00a0Pipher<\/span>\u00a0in her newest book\u00a0A Life In Light: Meditations on Impermanence<\/i><\/a>, recounts her love for her local library while she was a girl and how \u201creading lit a path into my future.\u201d She recalls her Aunt Margaret telling her, \u201c\u2026that many people only \"\"<\/a>know their friends and neighbors, but that readers are able to experience the lives of thousands of people from all times and places.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She also writes that \u201c…reading became my way of understanding the world\u2026offered me hope, soothed me in difficult moments, and gave me a sense of the immense complexity of the human spirit.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

So, here\u2019s to the gift of reading and all the libraries which hold so many treasures. Make it a great rest of the summer. Please join us for our annual Friends of the Library book sale on August 27th<\/sup>\u00a0and pick up a few \u201ctreasures\u201d that might help you understand the world a little better.\u00a0<\/b>And thanks again for the many ways you support the Andover Public Library.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/span><\/p>\n

Nancy Logan, Director<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Note From Nancy Recently, I had the privilege of attending the American Library Association\u2019s annual conference. It was like being a kid in a candy store! There were free books, authors, illustrators, and publishers galore.\u00a0\u00a0I brought back over 100 books, many of which will be published later this year. I had the chance to hear…<\/span><\/p>\n

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