Berkeley Bookmark
Vol. xiv, No. iv
www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org August 2015
A Busy Year, But Good…
Editor’s note: Friends president Sandy Bales gave a comprehensive overview of how the Friends are doing—as an
organization and as sellers of used books--at the recent
Annual Meeting, Here are her comments.
T
he Friends group has had a good year, a very busy
year, but good. The stores are doing well, sales on
Amazon have greatly increased our bottom line, membership and donations are holding steady. Nevertheless, there
are always those weeks when sales dip and donations of
books taper off, and we begin to think the end is near, that
the era of the book is on the decline, e-readers are taking
over the world, and we’ll have to fold up shop. Those moments don’t tend to last long, but they do keep us on our
toes, thinking of ways to get the word out, rally the troops,
coax people into the stores.
This year we have spent some money on publicity,
placing ads here and there, trying to track our return on
that investment. Frankly, it is not at all clear to us that
those ads have made much of an impact—the most valuable impact is word of mouth. Out of curiosity, how many
of the people here have been to the Channing Store? The
store at Central? Have purchased a book at either place?
[Various numbers of hands raised.] You’re not a representative crowd, of course, but if each of you would encourage
a couple of friends and neighbors to make the trek to the
Channing store in
particular—parking in the garage
is free the first
hour—you would
save us some
sleepless nights. Some of you
are aware that the
Channing store is
currently without
a manager—
we’ve banded
together as a
pretty congenial
committee-ofthe-whole to
keep things going,
and it’s working
out so far—but we are on the lookout for a manager and
think there might be someone here who has been looking for just this opportunity. If you like books and you like
people, and have a modicum of organizational skill—we’ve
got just the spot for you. It’ll be your chance to rule over a
lovely little kingdom of books. Come talk to me—or any
member of the Board.
This year the Friends purchased two tables to support
the Authors Dinner, and reward 16 of our hardworking
volunteers with tickets to what has become a muchanticipated annual event. In May, the Friends Board voted
to support Berkeley Public Library programs for the coming fiscal year to the tune of almost $100,000. We also invested some money in a booth at the Bay
Area Book Festival…and were very glad we did. I’m not
sure how its success will be measured, but we thought the
Book Fest was terrific, and it gave us an opportunity to
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Friends’ Board members provide lunch at the Annual Meeting, and here are some of the happy chefs [l to r]: Barbara McPhail,
Rosemary Hardy (back), Peggy Kirihara, Lucia Blakeslee, Ruth Grimes, Peggy McGarrahan, Margi Stromberg, and Donna Rabin.
Not pictured: Sandy Bails, Diane Davenport [photographer], Judith Justice,Toni Klassen, Amy Roth.
have lots of conversations with people about the work of
the Friends, the Foundation, and the Library. So if there’s
a second annual Bay Area Book Festival, we aim to sign
on. We were also able to advertise our Annual Big Book
Sale which took place the following weekend… [June
13-14]. A two-day sale was a new endeavor for us, but we
were happy with the result—we found new homes for
over 7000 books, and added over $3000 to our coffers. Of
course, any objective yardstick measure would tell us that
for all the man-hours—more accurately, woman-hours—
that go into this event, we should be making tens of thousands of dollars. But there are not good objective measures
of the love of books, the degree to which so many people
in the community look forward to the sale, and the joy of
taking home an armload of books for a pittance.
The key piece to the puzzle of keeping the bookstores,
the Amazon sales, the Annual Sale going is the volunteers
who make it happen, an absolutely extraordinary crew of
over 90 people who step up and step in whenever there
is a need to be met. That so many people would work so
hard—for free!!—is a constant source of amazement.
For starters, we have an exceptionally hard-working
Board. It’s always dangerous to start naming names because inevitably an important name will be inadvertently
omitted, but it would be a more egregious error not to
acknowledge that Sayre Van Young wears more hats than
anyone else: she curates the store at Central, she orchestrates the publication of the Bookmark, she masterminds
the annual Big Book Sale—she has her finger in every
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pie. Diane Davenport may have stepped down as Friends
president, but her thoughtful voice shapes every important thing we do. Together, Margi Stromberg and Barbara
McPhail have helped build our Amazon sales into a significant source of income, and spend more hours on the
computer than is healthy. In her first year on the Board,
Lucia Blakeslee has taken over as volunteer coordinator
and has cheerfully fielded way too many phone calls and
emails about volunteer shifts at the stores. And I’m not
sure what our presence at the Book Festival would have
been if Peggy Kirihara had not taken over the planning
of—and fretting over—details large and small. Roz Hardy
agreed to investigate what would be involved in updating
our website—and saved us literally thousands of dollars by
taking on the design job herself. It needs to be said that
she built on the work of Jean Holmes who—again as a
volunteer—put together our original site and maintained
it for years. Andrea Foley, who stepped down as store manager a couple of years ago and as volunteer coordinator
last year, has stayed on as publicity coordinator and [in that
job] has been persistent, dogged, and willing to investigate
any new angle.
We would like nothing more than to add more of you
to our ranks. It turns out that doing the work we do to
support the Library not only feels good, but it’s fun; it’s a
source of friendship and camaraderie—and we encourage
you to join our merry band.…
Welcome A-Board!
Editor’s Note: The Annual Meeting seems to prompt the
subsequent publication of multiple lists—lists of new
board members, lists of favorite things about the Library,
lists of staff awards, etc. So let’s start with the three new
members to the Friends’ Board: Claudia Berger, Andrea
Foley, and Yvonne Shawver. I asked each of them to write
a little about themselves and their thoughts about the
Library and the Friends.
Claudia Berger writes: I am almost wholly a product
of Berkeley. Although I was born across the Bay in Palo
Alto, I grew up here—going through the Berkeley Public
Schools; playing in the streets, parks, and occasional vacant
lots, back in the day when kids were allowed to roam free;
and reading my way through North
Branch Library’s children’s book
collection. I went off to college and
spent a year in Oklahoma City as a
Vista Volunteer where I met, and
later married, a New York City boy.
We returned to Berkeley in 1970
where I went to Library School
and he worked in the laundry at
Samuel Merritt Hospital to fulfill his
Conscientious Objector alternative
service obligation and we both protested the Vietnam War.
In 1971 I started working at the Berkeley Public
Library as a children’s librarian at West Branch. For
the next thirty-three years I continued working at the
BPL, moving from West to South Branch, driving the
Bookmobile, and finally landing at North Branch where
I stayed for twenty years working as an adult reference
librarian. After my retirement I continued to work as an
intermittent in the branches and at Central Reference. It
was in retirement that I became more active in the Friends
of the Library. I have always been a supporter and worked
for a while in the bookstore, and now I enjoy having the
time to list books for sale on Amazon.
As an employee of the BPL I always appreciated the
support the Friends gave to the Library, underwriting
programming and outreach and recognizing employees
for their years of service. When I retired I knew I wanted
to get more involved with this organization. I knew the
mission was worthy, and I was pretty sure the people
involved would be pretty neat too. In the years that I have
been more involved with the people and the work of the
Friends, I have found both to be true.
Andrea Foley writes: I am
returning to the Friends Board
after a short time away. Some might
ask: Why? In part it is because I
am a long time “civic volunteer,”
from the League of Women Voters
and Berkeley School Volunteers,
to participating in political and
fundraising campaigns as well as
many years of involvement in the
various Berkeley schools that our children attended.
In addition to being a member of the Friends for
years, I have held several positions on the Board: store
manager, volunteer coordinator, and chair of the publicity
committee. I was a volunteer long before the 2008-2009
grand remodeling of the Channing Store. I am still there
on Friday afternoons, pricing and shelving and meeting
interesting people. I also pick up books at the South
Branch destined for the shelves of either the Channing or
Central bookstores.
The Friends are a very friendly group of men and
women book lovers of all ages. Why not join our merry
crew?
Yvonne Shawver writes:Yvonne Shawver was dragged
to Berkeley by her mom at the age of 15 from the
misleadingly idyllic suburbs east of the Hills, forced to
eat curry for the first time and to
question all of her assumptions
about society that had been, up
until that point, built from endless
streets of tract housing and a
shopping mall.
Her eyes opened, she
embarked on a journey of selfdiscovery that included a stint at
a local educational facility known
colloquially as “Cal” where she
studied the intricacies of language, noted in passing
“these tuition rates can’t possibly stay this low over the
coming decades,” and proceeded from the lofty heights
of academia to a series of office administration jobs of
increasingly absurd levels of cubicle surrealism until finally
realizing what she really needed to do was work in a
bookstore—but only for a few hours a week as she needed
time to write, do photography, and pretty much anything
more creative than working in a damn cubicle.
The Friends of the Library Bookstore quickly became
much more than three hours a week spent with delightful
people sorting surprisingly affordable books. What had
been a quiet, unobserved love of libraries became a deep
sense of the civic role of this institution and a desire
to help further the goals of the Friends to fund every
deserving library program that Berkeley could possibly
want. It was an honor to be asked to be a member of the
Board.
She also loves cats.
Editor: Sayre Van Young
Layout/Design: Ann Higgins
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articles. Contact us at Friends Bookmark,
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Letters, We Get Letters…
Dear Friends,
This is to thank you for the check you gave me a few
weeks ago, for working 25 years at the Library. I probably
bought 50-100 books from you in that time, and donated
many more!
I started at West Branch in 1989 shelving 15 hours a
week. Between luck and hard work, they just kept promoting me, and I’ve been a supervisor for many years now. I do
it because I love the Library, and need to pay the bills, but
it is extra special to be rewarded by you hard workers for
doing it.
Thanks and best wishes,
––Susan Huish, Circulation Services
Dear Friends,
Just wanted to thank you for your kind gift. Sorry I
missed the June 17th party! 25 years—who knows where
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Margot Schevill
John Spitzer
Carol Stadler
Johanna Stigter
Frances Tauber
Janet Turman
Christopher Wagstaff
Rose Watada
Patsy Wood
Claire Edwards Yskamp
the time goes? Thanks for all you do for staff here at BPL.
—Kay Finney. Teen Librarian
Dear Friends of the Library,
All of us who work at the Library appreciate your ongoing support which provides for the special programs we are
able to offer our patrons.
I personally appreciate your thoughtful recognition and
the check I received at the lunch last week. It made me feel
very special. Thank you so much.
—Teresa Albro, Art & Music Department
Dear Friends of the Library—
…We could not do this programming and conduct our
community services without your support… Our grateful
thanks.
—Linda Sakamoto-Jahnke,
Berkeley Reads! [via phone message]
Editorial Maunderings & Meanderings
O
comments turned up, sometimes tucked in a specific book,
verheard recently: “They’re the Friends of the Lisometimes just falling out of the cartons. For example, of
brary…the best friends of the Library!”
Suite Francaise, Alba wrote “Very gripping, interesting story.
This summer’s three big bibliographic events started
Exceedingly well written. Excellent description of events
with the Bay Area Book Festival—a smashing success
and characters. One gets emotionally involved.”
for all concerned. The Friends booth, across from the CenBut Alba—a woman of great wit—found some books
tral Library, was jammed—lots of conversations and book
far less appealing: “Very dry, only got to page 16.” Or “I
selling. We arranged books in “clumps”—perhaps a better
kept reading it, but it’s really a bit of fluff.” Or: “The 1st
phrase would be “arranged by themes.” Buy one, or buy ‘em
chapter didn’t interest me in the slightest—either writing
all. Check the box below for some of the “clumps”—and
or content—so I stopped reading it at all.” And finally, a sad
let us know if you have any ideas for additional ideas for
comment from this wonderful lady and perceptive reader:
small sales, since “Book Clumps” are frequently on sale at
“I don’t put this marker because I have stopped reading
the Central Library Bookstore.
it… But because it is so sad, I can’t go on at this time. I will
This just in: Mark your calendars for the 2016 Bay
come back to it.”
Area Book Festival: June 4-5, 2016! Same place (downThe website culturetrip.com named the Friends
town Berkeley)... and lots of books for sale by the Friends.
Bookstore on Channing as one of Berkeley’s five best inNext on our summer calendar was the Big Book
dependent bookstores. Here’s how they led off the article:
Sale, a two-day extravaganza that netted the Friends al“The true mark of a book lover is the inevitable pull that
most $3500 dollars…though as president Sandy Bails notes
seeks out the nearest bookstore…. Every indie bookstore
elsewhere in this newsletter, a better way to think about it
tells the story of the city around it. A city with as much hisis that we sent 7,000 books off to happy homes. We also
tory as Berkeley, California, definitely has a story its many
tried selling books for more than the usual 50¢ and found a
bookstores are proud to share. Here are a few of the best of
willing audience for better books at higher prices. A more
the best when it comes to Berkeley’s independent bookefficient room arrangement plus the helpful participation
stores.” Nice to be in the same company with Moe’s, Mrs.
of dozens of volunteers meant this was our most successDalloway’s, Pegasus, and Shakespeare and Co. And yes, esful sale so far. Congrats to the Book Sale Committee:
pecially sad when independent bookstores like Shakespeare
Sandy Bails, Lucia Blakeslee, Andrea Foley, Hope Friedman,
& Co. have to close.
Ruth Grimes, Peggy Kirihara, Toni Klassen, Peggy McAttendees at the Friends Annual Meeting were asked
Garrahan, Barbara McPhail, Donna
to list their one most favorite thing
Rabin, Margi Stromberg, and to all
about the Berkeley Public LiThemed “Clumps” Sold at the
the helpful sale volunteers. That
brary. “Books” got the most votes
Bay Area Book Fest
includes every committee member
(why am I not surprised?); in fact,
plus Rae Allen, Dick Bails, BJ Barron,
Anglophile Ephemera
the comments ranged from “Books”
Christal Byrd, Betty Crews, Diane
Bestsellers
to “Books, books” to “Books, books,
Davenport, Ellen Feldman, Bill Foley, Bloomsbury Writers—Their Books and Their Lives
books!”
Veronika Fukson, Judith Justice, Lois
Books About Berkeley
Ranking next was Library staff,
Karp, Gerda Korner, Judy and Mike
Ephemera
who
were considered “Friendly,”
Lara, Harry Robertson, Amy Roth,
Fiction Set in Berkeley
“Helpful, “ and “Welcoming,” with
Dennis Shambaugh, Roger Sharp,
Hardy Boys
a special shout out for “The ReferYvonne Shawver, Rhoda Slanger,
Ladybird Books
ence Librarians!” Other favorites
Margaret Sparks, and Hildred Yost.
Nancy Drew Books
were “Children’s Room,” “Art SecHardworkers all.
Really Good Books at Ridiculously Low Prices
tion,” and the Library’s ambiance
And the third bibliographic event
Small Books
(comments ranged from “Friendly
for the Friends? Our Annual Meetenvironment” to “A peaceful place
ing, of course… check the cover
to read” to “Beautiful surroundings”). Library staff attendstory for more on that.
ing the meeting weighed in with “Working there” (another
The weeks since our last newsletter have seen some
non-surprise), and several Central Bookstore volunteers
sad passings of dear Friends—Hazel Payne, a former volenthusiastically cheered for the Friends store. Then, in no
unteer at the Central Library Bookstore, died in late May.
particular order, were these library favorites:
And oldtimers may remember Doras Briggs, active in
the Friends in the 1970s and ‘80s. Even then, she was just
Ease of use
Programs
Link+
in love with trains. In fact, in her 96 years, Doras rode trains
DVDs
Accessibility
Sense of community
for 91 of them. She became an unofficial ambassador at
CDs
Ethnically diIt’s there!
the Emeryville train station, and she eventually founded the
Laptop loans
verse programs Too many to list—
California Station Host program.
Diversity
Hold shelf
what a resource!
Another sad loss was Alba Witkin—there’s an obituFree!
ary about her elsewhere in this newsletter. After her death,
Finally, for all you FOL volunteers who lug, unpack,
many of her books were donated to the Friends. And as we
sort, price, shelve, and sell books, here’s a bit of trivia: In
unpacked them, small slips of paper with her short pointed
Danish, the word for bookseller is Boghandler.
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355 Years of Library Service!
Staff members receiving service awards who were able to attend the Annual Meeting [left to right]: Sam Clemons,
Linda McDonald, Nga Trinh, Greg McKean,Teresa Albro, Deirdre Cerkanowicz, and Susan Huish.
Editor’s note: Usually in the post–Annual Meeting issue, we
list the names and departments of the Library staff that received service awards at the meeting. This year we thought
it might be more interesting to offer a tiny bit more information about each recipient.
10 YEARS OF SERVICE
Larry Fonteno gets Library books and mail to the right
place; he’s also the unofficial meeter-and-greeter at the
Central Library’s back door.
Linda McDonald works at Claremont Branch as a Library Specialist.
Linda Sakamoto-Jahnke is coordinator of Berkeley
Reads, the Library’s Literacy Project at West Branch.
15 YEARS OF SERVICE
Taoufik Abalil also helps move books and mail from library branch to branch.
Greg McKean, Mr. Cataloger, is the head of the Catalog
Department at the Central Library.
Nga Trinh is an intermittent library assistant at the Central Library; she’s also received the Friends’ Library School
Scholarship.
Raymond Westphal works in Library Administration
where he’s an Accounting Office Specialist.
20 YEARS OF SERVICE
Teresa Albro is an artist in her spare time, so it’s only appropriate she works in the Art & Music Department.
Leticia Cendejas works in Technical Services, making
sure all goes well with the Library book ordering.
25 YEARS OF SERVICE
Deirdre Cerkanowicz works in Library Administration
overseeing the Library’s publicity, including the Facebook
page. She’s a previous recipient of the Friends’ Library
School Scholarship.
Sam Clemons, a Supervising Library Assistant at the
Central Library, was also a recipient of the Friends’ Library
School Scholarship.
Steve Douglas is the Maintenance guy who holds the
entire Library together. And he’s always been particularly
kind and helpful to the Friends in the Central Workroom.
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Kay Finney is the Central Library’s Teen Librarian.
Susan Huish, longtime member of the Central Library’s
Children’s Department, currently works in Circulation
Services.
Wendy Hyman, a Reference librarian at the Central Library, has also worked at West Branch.
Russell Keys is a Supervising Library Assistant in Circulation Services at the Central Library.
Will Marston is Teen Librarian at West Branch—he’s also
worked at North Branch and the Central Library, and was
a previous recipient of the Friends’ Library School Scholarship.
Kathy Slater, now in Circulation Services at the Central
Library, worked for many years in Technical Services.
Letters…We Send Letters, Too…
Editor’s note: Recently, president Sandy Bails wrote to
volunteer Jean Holmes about Jean’s work on the Friends’
website [www.berkeleylibraryfriends.org]. Her letter is a
cogent reminder of how much one person can contribute
to an organization.
Dear Jean,
If you’ve had a chance to look at our “new” website,
you’ll see that it owes a great debt to the website you created—and managed—for us. If you had not paved the path
for Roz Hardy and Yvonne Shawver to follow, and had
not recommended David Casuto as a mentor, who knows
when, and for how many thousands of dollars, the Friends
would have been able to put this revised website in place.
We wish we had gold watches, luxury trips—or wads
of cash!—to bestow on those who have made critical
contributions to the Friends’ efforts to raise money for
Library programs. We don’t, of course, but if we did you
would be right there at the front of the line.
Thank you. Those two words look so small in the face of
what you have done for us. We can’t say them enough.
Thank you, thank you.
Sincerely,
Sandy Bails, for the Friends
Alba Witkin, 1919-2014
L
ongtime Friend of the Library Alba Witkin died late
last year. She was one of the smartest and funniest
people I’ve ever met. She also was
an astoundingly generous woman.
Alba was the widow of legal scholar
Bernard Witkin, and if you are or
know a lawyer, you’ll be familiar with
the 37-volume Witkin treatises on
California law.
Born in New Jersey, she came to
California in 1929, attended Fresno
State College, and went on to get a
master’s in Public Personnel Administration from Stanford. Throughout
her life she immersed herself in community organizations, starting with
the American Friends Service Committee and working on the relocation
of Japanese American students after
World War II. School boards, human
relation commissions, peace center
work all followed. Alba had three
children with her first husband, Carl
Kuchman: Richard, Lisa, and Kenneth, and it is Kenneth who kindly provided the photo
here of Alba.
In 1978 she married Bernard Witkin, noted author,
lecturer, and advocate for legal reform. In the early 1980s
they formed the Bernard E. and Alba Witkin Charitable
Trust (now Foundation), and began their financial assistance to many nonprofit organizations, especially those
dealing with young children and
foster children.
Perhaps a personal note will
indicate more about this remarkable woman: In the late 1990s, I
gave her a behind-the-scenes tour
of the old Central Library. Alba was
a noted local philanthropist and
perhaps she’d be interested in seeing
what the condition of the building was really like then, and maybe
even eventually donating to the
newly formed Library Foundation.
We ended in the Children’s Room
where I pointed out a sizable hole
in the old and dated world globe—
where Berkeley was on the map—a
hole worn right through the globe’s
surface over many years by Berkeley’s youngsters pointing out exactly
where they lived. Alba was quiet for
a long moment, and then said, “Let’s
go meet with your Library Director.” She sat down in the
Administrative offices, took out her checkbook, and wrote
a check with many many figures in it.
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Friends of the Berkeley Public Library
Board of Directors, 2013-2014
President, Sandy Bails (2013)
First Vice President, Donna Rabin (2009)
Second Vice President, TBA
Treasurer, Barbara McPhail (2011)
Recording Secretary, Peggy McGarrahan (2013)
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Directors-at-large: Bob Baty (2013), Claudia Berger (2015),
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