Fairhope, Alabama Public Library

I've just come from a very productive meeting of the Fairhope Public Library Development Committee which was held at my bookstore. The Primary reason it was such a good meeting was Anne Clinton Groom. She has just come on board with ideas and energy that will enliven all of us and make our final goal of raising $1,500,000.00 much easier. Anne Clinton and her husband Winston are no strangers to the world of books and the new technologies that comprise modern libraries. But more than that she has that keen sense of a fund raiser who totally understands the premises of philanthropy. Tomorrow, I will accompany another Library Trustee, Dr. Hollis Wiseman, Library Director Betty Suddeth and Referrance Librarian Ilse Krick on a trip to the Tuscaloosa, Alabama Public Library to study it's RFID security system. That's radio frequency identification. For now I'm going to sign off and read some more of Memoirs of a Geisha. I'm halfway and am entranced by this book. More about it later.