Friends of the Alameda Free Library Board - Friends of the Alameda Free Library

2018 FAL Officers

President	Karen Butter
Vice President	Kumar Fanse
Secretary	David Beall
Treasurer	Bill Gibbs

2018 FAL Directors

Karen Manuel		Eileen Savel
Eileen Bitten		Billy Reinschmiedt
Luzanne Engh		Carole Robie
Marlene Grcevich		Karen Roemer
Nancy Horton		Jo Winzenread
Honora Murphy

The Board meets the fourth Monday of each month except December, at
6:30 p.m. in the Family Room, Main Library. The public is welcome.

Responsibilities of each FAL Board Member

Advocate for the Alameda Free Library
Attend Board meetings
Participate in discussions
Support Board decisions, plans and policies
Work to develop long range Board plans
Serve on committee(s) as liaison or chair; estimated to be 1-5 hours/week
Make an annual financial donation to FAL that is significant to you
Participate in FAL fundraising events/campaigns.

The FAL Bylaws are available in PDF form by clicking here.

Board president’s report for January 2018

Dewey’s Café is looking for ways to reduce waste and will contact library cafes in other cities for best practices in managing a café. The Docent Program discussed plans for the Lunar New Year program at Bay Farm Library on February 10 with storytellers from the Asian Art Museum and the docent lecture from the Fine Arts exhibit, Casanova, the Seduction of Europe, on March 12. The Booksale committee now offers a Thursday evening training/work opportunity for community members interested in volunteering for pre-sale sorting and pricing and staffing the booksale. 2018 is the tenth anniversary for Live @ the Library and Eileen Savel is already locating performers. We will celebrate the tenth anniversary during the Fall series. There are several volunteer opportunities – the café has available hours on weekdays for volunteers and Live @ the Library has openings for its Concert Committee. The Board reviewed its very productive year in 2017: more than $60,000 raised to support library programs, the-sold out Live @ the Library series, the popular Dewey’s café with tasty treats, the very well-attended Docent lecture program, two successful booksales and an outstanding new team to manage the sales, the Volunteer recognition event, Library staff lunches during National Library Week, and a successful fund raising campaign to support Library programs. While these activities will continue the Board will plan a Saturday planning retreat sometime over the summer to develop a 5 year plan.