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I Still Love Libraries – You Comment, I Donate!

Filed under: Family & friends, I write, Otherwise by margocole — 61 Comments
March 28, 2011

Update: My challenge ends today, 4/5/11. I’ll donate $5 for new comments and followers!

I’m taking part in this year’s library-loving blog challenge. Last year’s was so much fun and successful, I had to sign up again! For every unique commenter on this post between now and April 5, 2011 at 11:59pm CST, I will donate $1.00 to Evanston Public Library Friends – up to $150. How easy is that? You comment, I cough up the money, and the EPLF gets a gift!

This year’s challenge adds a new component – Twitter followers. For every new follower I get and keep between now and April 5, 2011 at 11:59pm CST, I will donate an additional $1 – up to $100. So if you haven’t already, follow @margorowder for a good cause.

This year, helping the EPLF is more important than ever. Because the city didn’t renew its South Branch library lease, just last Saturday the Friends opened The Mighty Twig, an experimental outpost with books, computers, internet services, and a variety of programming and events. The Mighty Twig runs on a completely honor-based circulation system and it’s managed entirely by volunteers.

Lori Keenan, Evanston Library Board member and Twig enthusiast, says:

The Mighty Twig saw 500+ people check out 300+ books at our Grand Opening Celebration on Saturday. To the Friends, this seems to validate the need and citizen support of our efforts to provide this important community space. We hope this experimental concept can lead to bigger and better things for EPL system as the Library Board continues its Visioning process. The need, energy, and momentum for bringing more library services to various neighborhoods throughout Evanston is alive and well in the Evanston community.

The EPLF needs $150 per day to run The Mighty Twig, so please add your comment below to support this amazing effort.

You can also help this year’s challenge by spreading the word on Twitter, Facebook, or your own blog – AND by commenting on other participating blogs in the blog challenge master list. If you’d like to start your own challenge or donate to your own library, please include the amount and the name of your library system in your comment.

Libraries mean so much more than books. And books mean the world!
Add your comment and follow @margorowder today.

Thanks, library-huggers. I’ll post a follow up soon.

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Vote by 10/31 to get THIRTY DECIBELS noticed

Filed under: Random by margocole — 6 Comments
October 28, 2010

If you saw this on Facebook/twitter/LinkedIn/emblazoned on my forehead and you’ve already voted, THANK YOU.

Writer-friends, loved ones, and countrymen, thanks for all your recent support of THIRTY DECIBELS. I appreciate every ounce of it.
Could you help support the story with one more quick click?

YAlitchat, a fantastic online community of writers, is having a pitch contest. From 42 entries, the top 10 will get the attention of two hot editors and three sizzling literary agents.

Click thumbs-up for THIRTY DECIBELS here! Voting ends 10/31.

(It’s last on the page. You should see a yellow “Vote” button. Click that, and then click thumbs-up in the next window.)

THANKS for your support!

For future reference, I am now 99% more likely to donate/vote/blog about whatever you’d like me to donate/vote/blog for. Guaranteed.  :D

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Fantastic designer and advocate needs your vote by Tuesday, 6pm

Filed under: Family & friends, Otherwise, World by margocole — Leave a comment
October 10, 2010

Two of my favorite things in the world come together in one talented designer: Leslie Ligon.

Leslie's Braille Alphabet bracelet could be up for a People's Design Award!

Her art (jewelry) and advocacy (Braille literacy) come together to poignant results. And at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (part of the Smithsonian), Leslie could be up for a People’s Design Award with your help. Please vote here to show your support.

Voting ends at 6pm EST on Tuesday, October 12, so please click soon!

The need for Braille literacy is startling.

  • Unemployment among blind individuals: about 70%
  • Percentage of blind individuals in the workforce who read Braille: 95
  • Percentage of the blind who read Braille: 10

Visit Leslie’s blog to see additional designs. A percentage of the profits from the sale of Leslie’s “At First Sight” braille jewelry are donated to organizations that promote Braille literacy.

[Sure, I’m a little biased because her husband Eric was one of my foremost design professors at the University of North Texas. But no way – I’d be impressed anyway. In fact, this bracelet is officially on my Christmas list.]

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VOTE by Tuesday at Midnight to Help Save Libraries

Filed under: Otherwise by margocole — 3 Comments
October 3, 2010

EVERYONE can rock the vote for libraries

At a recent budget session, Evanston’s city council asked citizens for input on budget cuts. Concerned Evanstonians left the libraries off their proposed budget cuts. But the libraries have mysteriously re-appeared on the city’s online poll of cuts.

Here’s where you can help. Whether you live in Evanston or Timbuktu, YOU can rock the vote to save Evanston’s branch libraries.

Please vote to SAVE libraries, before Tuesday 10/5 at midnight. Tell every library-hugger you know to vote!

(Choose “Library Branches” at the top and at least one NON-library revenue proposal.) Again, you do NOT need to live in Evanston to make a difference.

For up-to-the-minute info on Evanston’s library saga, please visit Evanston Public Library Friends or connect with EPLF on Facebook.

Libraries mean so much more than books. And books mean the world!

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