Friends Day at OLA  Feb. 3, 2002

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Best Friends @ OLA

Facilitator : Hilary Neary
President, Friends of the London Public Library
How do you recruit, retain, involve, and motivate your volunteers? Friends groups of all sizes share their methods and experience.

Facilitator: Marjorie Hodges,
President, Friends of the Oshawa Public Library
Tried and true methods of fund raising will be outlined. We all do it all - book sales, special events, corporate donations, capital building funds. Let's share ideas, ask questions, and find out what strategies and action plans produce the best results.

Our OLA luncheon guest speaker will be children’s author Julie Johnston, author of The Only Outcast (Tundra Books, 1998), Hero of Lesser Causes (Lester Publishing, 1992) and Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me (Lester Publishing, 1994), and editor of Love Ya Like a Sister. Julie's new book is In Spite of Killer Bees, just published during the fall of 2001.

Julie earned Governor General's Literary Awards for her two early novels, and her third was nominated in 1998. CLA selected Adam and Eve and Pinch-Me for their children’s literature award, and Hero of Lesser Causes also received the National Chapter of Canada IODE literary award.

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