Sita (Sailaja) Peddada moved to Alameda in 2008 after completing her PhD at UC Davis on the genetic and molecular basis of autism spectrum disorders. Her journey with FAL started when she decided to volunteer in the city she had … Read More
Luzanne Engh is being honored with a City of Alameda Community Service Award as a Nonprofit Board Member. Luzanne has brought outstanding leadership and tireless dedication to multiple nonprofit organizations in Alameda. She is personally responsible for many initiatives and … Read More
By Karen Butter, FAL president I am pleased to introduce three new Friends of the Alameda Free Library Board members. They are all passionate about libraries and bring unique skills to the Board. Doris Ung has been a member of … Read More
Long time library supporter Carl Halpern passed away on June 15 after many years of declining health. Carl was raised on the East coast and after graduation joined the Peace Corps and taught mathematics in Tanzania. Upon his return he … Read More
What are your earliest memories of reading and books? Because we moved frequently when I was young, criss-crossing the country by car, I always carried stacks of books with me, even before I could read the words. I would “read” … Read More
What are your earliest memories of reading and books? My parents and grandparents read to me as a child, and as I grew older, they took me on weekly trips to the Alameda Children’s Library to check out books. To … Read More
What are your earliest memories of reading and books? I grew up in Quincy, California, and I think the first book I really read was from the Plumas County Library: Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carrol. I was about in … Read More
What are your earliest memories of reading and books? I remember my mother reading Robert Louis Stevenson poems from his collection, “A Child’s Garden of Verses” to me at the age of four. I enjoyed hearing “The Swing”, “The Land … Read More
What are your earliest memories of reading and books? Our local library in our small Georgia town had a summer reading program every year. By the time I was 7 or 8, I had read all of the children’s books … Read More
Born and raised in San Francisco, Peg has been an avid reader as long as she can remember. “I discovered the Friends semi-annual book sales after my family moved to Alameda in 1998. Attending and buying during those sales immediately … Read More