Each year at the Annual Meeting the Friends presents an award to a member of the community for outstanding service to our libraries, literacy, and the cause of reading. The award comes as a donation of $2,000 to the Library in the name of the award winner, who decides how the donation will be spent. This year’s award honors Kris Onstine for her many, and continuing, years supporting the Friends’ fundraising efforts through her management and coordination of our book donation activities, including the sorting and evaluating of incoming books and the training and supervising of our back room volunteers who work with them. In addition, Kris has full responsibility for the selection, listing and management of our book sales on eBay, an activity which brings in several hundred dollars a month. Kris also selects and supervises the sale of a group of specially priced better books at our quarterly book sales. We are fortunate to have someone with her knowledge and ability overseeing these activities.
Although we don’t know how Kris will choose to have all the donation spent, she did ask that part of it be used to ensure that the Library has at least one copy, in good condition, of every book on the Banned Books List. Bravo, Kris!