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FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY CHAIRMAN'S ANNUAL REPORT 1993 This has been another busy year for us as we started off with our 2nd shot at "Casino Nights" - 2 this time and we were able to put about $13,300 into a Trust account which has since been used to buy equipment for the Youth Services Department. April saw us hosting the first lecture for the Music in the Morning series in the Peter J. Peters Room - surrounded by construction men and even the lecturer wearing a hard hat. The next lecture saw us relegated to a basement room in the United Church and the final one in June was once again in the almost finished room in the Library. By this time book sorting for the next sale had started - not in the usual dungeon but in our treasurer's basement where the boxes soon overflowed out to the carport - after that we moved on to another basement, this time in the Technical Services Department. Setting up for the sale was a little easier with a Budget-Rent-a-Van being driven, full of books, straight on to the Ice Arena floor. It was then 3 days of very hard work but how satisfying to raise $7,700. Natalie Logan's organizational skills are quite amazing. In September we were back again in full force for the Official Opening Day - coping with coffee urns that kept going "off the boil" as soon as our backs were turned and, after the crowds had departed, gathering up cups and saucers from all sorts of unexpected places. Then, almost at once it seemed, we were back again for the 11th November reception. More people than ever this year as we rented 350 cups most of which were used. All of us who helped that morning will recall trying to get from one end of the building to the other with a full plate of cookies - almost impossible. Add to all this, the artists receptions which started again in November, the hosting of 3 lectures organized by Anne Pearson and the deliveries of books and tapes to the home-bound patrons and you can see we have not been idle in 1993 and how nice it is to have all our equipment out of the Seminar Room and into the kitchen here. May I express my thanks to all of you who have worked so willingly and enthusiastically through the year - to John as Vice Chairman, Irene our Treasurer, Wayne as Secretary, Pat who "telephones", Betty our Membership Chairman who makes sure that we all receive our newsletters that are so excellently written by Tony and Betty O'Sullivan who is the mainstay of the artists receptions and, of course Lois Kilburn who we all miss since she moved away last June. Add to this the help and encouragement we receive from Jack and the unfailing support from Lillian and you will see that to be Chairman of such a group is not difficult at all. Eileen de Bues Chairman January 26,1994