This year's Celebration of Learning was a night to remember. Roy Blount Jr. entertained us with his southern wit, we presented the Julian Sinclair Smith Award to Columbus resident Linda Stern Kass, and dinner in the stacks was delectable. It's not too soon to be thinking about next year's 17th annual event!
Columbus Metropolitan Library Foundation was founded with a mission to build resources to advance the library for generations to come. The foundation supports the library as it "promotes reading and guides learning in the pursuit of information, knowledge and wisdom" and relies on the contributions of individuals, businesses and foundations to help Columbus Metropolitan Library work towards its vision of a thriving community where wisdom prevails.
You can donate a book to the library in someone's name? What a great way to honor a book lover!
Humorist and journalist Roy Blount Jr. was this year's speaker for the Celebration of Learning. He is the author of 20 books and his most recent, Long Time Leaving: Dispatches From Up South (Knopf), won the 2007 nonfiction award from the New England Independent Booksellers Association. He is also a contributing editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as a panelist on NPR's Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me, a columnist for The Oxford American, and the president of the Authors Guild. His essays, articles, stories, verses and even drawings have appeared in 166 different periodicals.
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1993. |
Clifford A. Tyree |
| 1994. | William T. Gillie |
| 1995. | Donn F. Vickers |
| 1996. | Judy R. Garel |
| 1997. | Rose-Marie Dilenschneider |
| 1998. | Yvonne A. Bell and Josiah H. Blackmore, III |
| 1999. | Rowland C.W. Brown |
| 2000. | Catherine Willis |
| 2001. | Phyllis Greene |
| 2002. | Donald and Thekla Shackelford |
| 2003. | Wayne P. Lawson |
| 2004. | Robert and Shirley Duncan |
| 2005. | Annie Glenn |
| 2006. | Loann Crane |
| 2007. | Carl Kohrt |
| 2008. | Linda Stern Kass |
