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Welcome to The Traverse Area District Library (TADL) email newsletter, offering you news and events from the District's network of community libraries. If you do not wish to receive this monthly update please click here to unsubscribe.

Happy New Year!

"Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reminder: Jan. 1, 2014 - All TADL Locations Closed

All TADL locations are closed Wednesday, January 1 for New Year's Day. You can still access www.tadl.org, your online account, and all TADL digital offerings 24/7.

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Give a Gift to Purchase Plants for the Garden

Consider a contribution to Grow the Gardens, a fundraising effort to create an attractive and educational landscape to enhance the front entrance to Woodmere. Your gift will help the library purchase plants for all to enjoy. Read More and Donate Online.

Local Author Cari Noga Shares Story About Family, Love, and Fate

Join us at Woodmere on January 21 as the library welcomes author Cari Noga. Noga will talk about her novel, Sparrow Migrations, which takes the real and spectacular event of the "Miracle on the Hudson" plane crash deeper, creating a compelling story of family love and fate. Read More.

New in 2014!

Books & Brewskis Book Club

The newest addition to the TADL book club roster, Books & Brewskis will be hosted at The Filling Station Microbrewery, next door to Woodmere. Held on the last Tuesday of the month starting January 28 with Everything Matters! by Ron Currie, Jr., readers can look forward to a laid-back atmosphere and lively discussion of the month's book choice, titles as varied and distinctive as the beer served up. Read More.

Reminder: Deadline for Poetry Submission is January 25

The annual Poets' Night Out is accepting poetry submissions until January 25 for its 2014 public poetry contest taking place in April at the Traverse City Opera House. Read more.

Watch Our Video!

A new video released by TADL explores some of the personal, professional, and creative connections made at the library. Read More.

Great MI Read Event Series at the Library

To explore the theme of mental illness and care presented in this year's Great MI Read, Annie’s Ghosts: A Journey into a Family Secret by Steve Luxenberg, TADL will team up with Northern Lakes Community Mental Health to offer events in April featuring an afternoon with Luxenberg. Read More.

Top and Left to Right: Cathy and her four legged pal, Stella. (Stella is a reading therapy dog and will begin regular "Tell a Tail" reading sessions at Woodmere soon!) Stella reading with a young patron at Flint Public Library during Cathy's "Tell a Tail" program.

Nice to Meet You

Meet Cathy Lancaster, TADL's new Coordinator of Youth Services. Raised in Flint, MI, Cathy graduated from Kalamazoo College in 2000, with a BA in English. In 2003, she graduated from Wayne State University with her MLIS (Master of Library and Information Science), and was invited to return to Flint to work for the Flint Public Library, where she was Children's Librarian for ten years before joining TADL as Coordinator of Youth Services. Cathy really enjoyed volunteering in the Flint community and being socially active with various Flint organizations, and hopes to get just as involved in the Traverse City area. She moved with her 7 year old Black Labrador, Stella, to Traverse City in November and both have enjoyed long walks throughout the historic neighborhoods. When the snow melts Cathy looks forward to bicycling the trails, but in the meanwhile she plans to explore the shops, breweries and vineyards. Make sure to stop into Youth Services at Woodmere and say "hi" to Cathy!

Cathy, what do you have "checked out"

Cathy is currently reading "Inside Out and Back Again" by Thanhha Lai and listening to "The Truth About Love" by Pink.

This e-newsletter is made possible by the Friends of the Traverse Area District Library

About TADL

The Traverse Area District Library (TADL) is a network of community libraries serving Grand Traverse County through the following locations: the Woodmere (Main) Branch in Traverse City including the Talking Book Library, East Bay and Kingsley Branch Libraries; Member Libraries: Fife Lake Public Library, Interlochen Public Library, and Peninsula Community Library.

TADL provides a wide variety of services, including the loan and inter-library loan of a broad collection of book titles (print, audiobooks, e-books, and e-audiobooks), periodicals, DVDs, CDs, subscription databases, publicly accessible computers, free WiFi, a variety of meeting spaces, blind and physically handicapped services, and free programming for all ages.

Please share your questions or concerns with the TADL e-newsletter editor at news@tadl.org.