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by Eleanor Zucker
New Year News
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University of Minnesota Students Lend a Hand at HB
The week of January 10, a group of students from the University of Minnesota spent a couple hours a day helping out at the library. Every year students come to volunteer at Centro Ecológico Akumal (CEA), and through the library's ongoing collaboration with CEA, the students found their way to HB last year where they helped us put up a tire swing.
The collaboration worked out so well that this year, CEA staff arranged for them to come back and help at HB. Students sorted, dusted and helped organize our overflowing shelves in the English annex, a labor-intensive task that was very overdue! They also helped dust and straighten the shelves of our Spanish-language collection in our main building.
And so it wouldn't be all work and no play, they helped make two piñatas for a small King's Day (Epiphany) celebration, which they decorated with the kids and the kids got to break it once it was dried and filled.
Thank you to all the students and their professor, as well as to CEA and their staff for this wonderful collaboration. We hope to continue it in 2012!
HB Receives Donation from Rotary Club Of Asheville–Biltmore, North Carolina!
Last summer we had an e-mail from Jim, who had visited the library several times and had made a personal donation. He belongs to an International Rotary Club in North Carolina which he described as "similar to Hekab Be, small in size but big in spirit!" He was looking for a worthy cause that his club could support and he asked if HB would be interested; we, of course, answered with a resounding "Yes, please!"
A number of months went by and we didn't hear anything. But then we had a wonderful surprise at the end of December, when he contacted to us to say they would be arriving in January with a donation large enough to help us cover over a month of operating expenses. We couldn't have asked for a nicer way to start out the new year! Thank you, Asheville–Biltmore Rotarians, for getting us off to a GREAT start in 2011!!
Check our blog for photos of Jim's upcoming visit to the library. If you are part of a Rotary Club that would like to help out the library, please contact us and we can put you in touch with Jim if your club wants to work together on future fundraising efforts.
English Paperback Book sale on President’s Day Weekend
On Saturday, February 19, from 9-1, the library will be holding a book sale of extra copies of titles from our English paperback collection. It's great beach reading to stock up for yourself, your condo or your vacation home Special bargain prices will be available during the sale, so stop by and gather up some extra reading materials.
Update on Leo
Leo started chemotherapy in early January and is back in Quintana Roo, overseeing her school in Tulúm. Although she remains with the library in heart and soul, for the time being she needs to use her energies for healing, so we won’t be seeing her around the library much these days. We ask that everyone keep this wonderful woman in their prayers!
Stay up to date with the latest library happenings by visiting our Main Blog.
If you would like to help by bringing down items for the library to use in our on-going programs, check our Wish List Blog for most needed items.
If you would like to make a tax-deductible donation to Hekab Be, visit our Donation Blog.
Questions about Hekab Be?
E-mail us or stop by and talk to Carlos.
Library Hours of Operation
Our schedule is the following:
Monday & Friday: 9:30 AM–5:30 PM (closed 1–2:30 for lunch)
Tuesday & Thursday: 9:30 AM–4:30 PM (closed 1–2:30 for lunch)
Wednesday: 12–1 and 2:30–5:30 (staff read at Akumal school in the morning)
Saturday 9–1
Closed Sunday
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