Please join us at The Mighty Twig

Celebrate six months of success and kick-start 2012!

Enjoy live Jazz, art by area students., and the excitement of an iPad2 Raffle!
Help us raise $25K by December 15th!
Saturday, November 5, 2011 5:00 to 8:00 p.m.
Appetizers & Drinks will be served.

Big Numbers Tell Our Story of Success: 

In just 6 months 

18,017 visitors,

3481 computer users.

2591 toddlers at storytime

509 children checked out 6062 books

15,297 free books distributed to 11 locations across Evanston.

Run with 3,431 volunteer hours, with volunteers ranging from ages 9 to 89.

The Mighty Twig welcomes Evanston author Sam Park, who will read from his celebrated first novel, “This Burns My Heart,” on Friday, September 23 at 7:00 p.m. Acclaimed author Audrey Niffenegger (“The Time Traveller’s Wife”) describes the book as “quietly stunning — a soft, fierce story that lingers in the mind. Samuel Park is a deft and elegant writer; this is a very exciting debut.”

According to the publisher, “This Burns My Heart” is equal parts classic romance, page-turning literary drama, and cultural history. Set in South Korea in the 1960s, it centers on Soo-Ja Choi, an ambitious young woman who finds herself trapped in an unhappy marriage. Faced with adversity and oppression, she struggles to protect her daughter and to fulfill her own dreams—all against the backdrop of a society caught between tradition and modernity.

Kirkus Reviews calls THIS BURNS MY HEART “captivating” and a “first-rate literary effort,” saying, “Park’s novel can be read as a contemplation of loss and the angst of unrequited love, much like Dr. Zhivago.”

Please join us at The Mighty Twig, 900 Chicago Ave. on Thursday, September 22 at an open house to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month. Between 6-7 pm, there will be craft tables set up to make mini-piñatas (stuffed with candy, of course), decorate maracas, and more…

- Beginning at 6:30, Abuelo Isidro will tell classic stories from several Spanish-speaking countries, and provide the audience with some interesting facts about the Hispanic culture

- At 7:00 pm, we are going to pick up the pace, turn up the music, and learn to dance the Bachata! Dance instructor Veronica Quiroz will show us a few basic moves that will get everyone up and dancing!

We hope to see you there!

The Library Board meeting last night was a 4-hr-long-nail-biter. Read this excellent coverage in Patch. And don’t blink, you might miss something!

‘Autonomous’ Library Board Still Reliant on City

evanston.patch.com

Though the Evanston Public Library is legally autonomous, it will be financially reliant on the City of Evanston for the near future. Can the library board operate successfully with such contingencies and will it ever become wholly self reliant?

KIDS!!! (and kid-like parents) Join the Friends at The Mighty Twig – 900 Chicago Avenue, Thursday Night for Anti-Boredom Night…decorate-it-yourself pinwheels, telescopes , picture frames — big posters kids can color in all about themselves, sidewalk chalk, bubble blowing stuff — and one amazingly long rope for tug-of-war.… PLUS our Super Storyteller, Jane Stenson!

Thursday, July 14th 6 – 7:30 pm
All ages welcome!

Join EPLFriends for the Best Booksale in Town –

Early Worm Special this Friday and Saturday and then again during the Sidewalk Sale the following weekend.

3000 Central Street, Central and Central Park in Evanston.  Read more about the Sale here in TribLocal.

THANK YOU to Flader Plumbing and Heating at 3000 Central Street, who are hosting our Book Sorting Extravaganza (going on Tues/Wed/Thurs from 10-2, this week and next) and our Mother of All Book Sales, coming up Fri/Sat July 8&9! Thanks to Flader for their generosity in hosting the Friends! Want to help sort books? Come on by.

Today, Wed. June 29, Thurs, June 30th, and then next Tues., Wed., Thurs. July 5, 6, & 7th, we could use your help sorting books. Join us at Flader’s generously donated space at the corner of Central and Central Park (former site of Durfee Orthodontics).

This year’s sale won’t be as big as last year, but we’ve got books and we need to get them sorted. Come take a two-hour shift sometime between 10 and 2 this week and next and get a sneak peek at some of what we’ll have for sale at the MOTHER OF ALL BOOKSALES (LITE) to be heldJ uly 8, and 9th, and 14, 15 and 16th.

Four award-winning authors, including long-time Evanston resident Paul McComas (Unforgettable: Harrowing Futures, Horrors, and (Dark) Humor; Walkabout Publishing, 2011), will appear together at The Mighty Twig, 900 Chicago Avenue, Evanston, at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, June 15^th.  The authors are in the midst of a five-city Midwestern book tour.

Joining Paul for the event are novelists Douglas Armstrong (Even Sunflowers Cast Shadows), and Angela Woodward (End of the Fire Cult), and former Wisconsin Poet Laureate Marilyn L. Taylor. The event is free and open to the public. For more info, see TribLocal article here.

There are a few things on the horizon, and we hope you can attend!

Library Board Meeting

Wednesday, May 18th 6:30 PM at the Main Library, there is an important Library Board meeting, where the Library Board will vote on the future of the North Branch, which is currently funded through August. If you have thoughts you’d like to share with the Board about the importance of North, please try to come to this important meeting.

West Village Celebration, Dempster & Dodge

Join EPLFriends as we hit the Dempster/Dodge Shopping Plaza to celebrate the summertime location of the West Side Summer Reading Stop, at Makin’ It Happen In the West Village. EPL will open a summer reading location and EPLFriends will be there to help! Learn more about how you can get involved or volunteer, or just stop by to have some fun and see the new space. Friday, May 20th, and Saturday, May 21st, 10AM – 4PM. Help us man the EPLF info table. To learn more click here. If your teen would like to help out by face-painting, please let us know at info@eplfriends.org.

Author, Janet Spiech

Saturday, May 21st, 10:30 AM at The Mighty Twig, 900 Chicago Avenue, Join Author Janet Spiech as she discusses ways to make family meals enjoyable, relaxing and meaningful, with her book, Easing Mealtime Madness. For more info

click here.