First a Dream: A Community Builds a Library - Hardcover

Ridley, Jo Ann

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ISBN 10: 156550089X ISBN 13: 9781565500891

Publisher: Essene Vision Books, 2001

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This wonderful narrative recounts the history of the libraries on the Tiburon Peninsula and the ten years of dedicated work by visionaries who saw the building of the new library as a necessary element for the community. Aside from fund-raising, volunteers committed long hours to locating a site, choosing an architectural firm, drawing up wish lists, conducting a national search for a library director, ensuring that the children’s room be a happy place and user friendly, and learning of future Internet connection systems, all while keeping the donating public excited with the progress by publishing a newsletter, now used to inform the public of the library’s book additions, news, and programs.

The result is a warm and charming, as well as state of the art, building that was built with generous donations, fund-raisers as simple as bake stands and as elegant as catered dinners, and committees composed of citizens who used all of their professional and social skills to oversee the project to completion and on to ensuring that future library funding continued.

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About the Author

Author Jo Ann Ridley is an accomplished biographer who has also written extensively about the arts and related subjects during her forty-year career in journalism. Ms. Ridley’s freelance articles, columns, reviews, and interviews have appeared in national publications. This is her fifth book.

Illustrator James S. Malott is a licensed architect who also works in multiple media, including pastels, ink, oils, watercolor, bronze, stone, wood, and steel. His work in community development is complemented by his passion for history and the importance of art and architecture in everyday life.

Kevin Starr, the present and seventh State Librarian of California since the turn of the century, and an award winning author himself, graciously contributed the foreword.

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