Book signing
The Yearly Meeting Library in cooperation
with Friends General Conference Bookstore is sponsoring a book signing/sales
event. Scott Savage will give readings from his new book, A Plain
Life, during the event from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, at
Friends Center, 15th and Cherry streets, Philadelphia. His book is the story of
his journey with Conservative Friends in Ohio. Scott is the editor of
Plain, a nationally distributed magazine of Amish/Quaker/Luddite
ideas. He also edited last year's "The Plain Reader: Essays on Making a Simple
Life." Scott is the co-founder of the Center for Plain Living. He organized the
Second Luddite Congress in Barnesville, Ohio, where he now resides.
Scott, with his family, has taken radical steps to
turn away from a spirit-numbing modern lifestyle and to return to a slower pace
that allows spiritual life to thrive in community. His presentation promises to
be intriguing, consciousness raising, thought provoking, perhaps disturbing
enough to change the course of his listeners toward a more deeply rewarding
life path.
Book lists on Internet
e are proud to announce that Mario Cavallini
has completed the links for the PYM Library's booklists on the PYM web site. If
you have Internet access, you can now reach us at
www.pym.org/library. You can
look up topics on the index of booklists which will connect you to about 250
individual lists of books, videos and cassettes. These can be printed for First
Day School classes, or other special interest groups. You can request books
from the lists by phone or e-mail.
PYM Library review
he Support and Outreach Standing Committee is
conducting a 6-month, in-depth review of the Library through June. Plans are
under way for distributing a survey at Yearly Meeting sessions to determine the
direction members would like to see the library take in the next 5 to 10 years.
Your response to the survey will be very important in determining the course of
the library.
New library staff
e are pleased to welcome Elke Muller who has
been hired as the temporary Library Assistant, through June 2000, for the
duration of the library review. She will be at the circulation/reference desk
full time.
Change in fees
ll members and attenders of the Monthly
Meetings of PYM have free borrowing privileges. The annual fee for subscription
membership in the library for non-member/attenders has been raised to $50.
Rita Varley
Central Philadelphia Meeting
PYM
Librarian
215-241-7219
Library@pym.org
