Good Morning Colleagues

We are on the last few days countdown to the Southern Festival of Books where TNLA, FOTL, SELA, TennShare, and TASL will have a presence. But that is not yet set in stone because we are woefully lacking in volunteers to work the tent on the two days of the festival.

We need your help! We need to get at least 1-2 volunteers for the booth for the following time periods where we have no one signed up:

Saturday-

3-6:30

Sunday-

9-12

3-6

We had hoped to have 3 people per time slot but we're going to do what librarians always do, make it work with what we have, but if you have time we could also use one more person in the following time slot:

Saturday-

8-11:30, we desperately need an additional volunteer at this time as the other person planning to be there has to leave at 11 which would put the booth unmanned for 30 minutes.

Sunday-

12-3

Additionally, we have 5 people for the 11:30-3 slot on Saturday, could any of you possibly work a different shift?

We have never more needed to be advocating for our libraries and several committees in TNLA including IF, CYA, Legislation, and DEI really need our support in being a voice for our patrons. This presence at the festival hits on many of the topics they are working on throughout the year and they need help to pull this off so if you live in the Nashville area, or you can/want to travel from further away, please reply off list to me to let me know what shift you could work. It's a glorious event and I wish I could be there.

Thank you to Kathy Dooley-Smith with the Friends of Tennessee Libraries for being a great organizer and getting all the supplies together, despite being very busy with prep for the FOTL conference, also this weekend. Thank you to Cassandra for picking up items from Kathy and Miria for getting items back to Kathy at the end. Logistics are a lot!

I appreciate all of you, and the work you do in your libraries and for the association, to further everyone's Freedom to Read and use our beautiful libraries throughout the state.

If you are involved with particular committees or you are the point person for a group that's involved, you may get another similar email from me. I apologize in advance but as my moma used to say, when your ox is in the ditch you gotta get it out. Please share this and encourage others to come work. And hey, make it fun, sign up for a time slot and bring a friend with you to hang out and help you promote libraries!

Thank you so much for your consideration of this need. We're the volunteer state for a reason, I know we can make this happen!

Rhonda

Rhonda Clement Tippitt

Sevier County Public Library Systems Director

Direct Number 865-365-1416

Fax 865-365-1665

 

King Family Library 865-453-3532

Kodak Branch Library 865-933-0078

Williams Family Seymour Branch Library 865-573-0728

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