…**Meeting resumed. III. REPORTS OF OFFICERS, BOARDS AND COMMITTEES a. Advocacy Committee (C. Dreisbach) The Advocacy Committee is serving on a planning committee for Durham’s 1st annual Read Local Book…

…Morrison’s unforgettable novel is one of the great and enduring works of American literature. (From the publisher.) https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/biographical/ https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1993/morrison/biographical/ Questions: 1. Consider the extent to which slavery dehumanizes individuals by…

…London, Ontario, with her partner and their two small children. [From www.roomthebook.com] Summary: To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world…. It’s where he was born, it’s where he and his Ma…

…covered in the Director’s Report. IT Committee (D. Trembath, and S. Chambers) The board committee has combined with the library IT committee and is in the early stages of developing….

…on library computers. The IT committee will assist the Policy committee with the Computer Use policy. Inventory of computers was discussed. BUDGET COMMITTEE (Mr. Lang): This committee has not met….

…at Durham’s Kress department store lunch counter. Sharpe was chair of the Social Actions Committee at the Divinity School and joined student government petitions in the preceding months to repeal…

…agenda are follow-ups from the County Commissioner’s meeting. The agenda was approved. Communications: (Ms. Alexander) The News and Observer has published articles of interest about libraries, which will be sent…

…causes in the Midwest and the South. Her family lived in a succession of Quaker communities in the South until they settled in 1948 in a Quaker commune in Celo,…

…know the LGBTQ community existed in Durham before the 1970s, little documentation exists. This collection documents the community as it moved more into the public eye, particularly after the Little…

…will be served. The committee is also working on community resources to connect the community and will attempt to live stream the events on Google hang outs. There is a…