And the winners of the Rowayton Library's FREE Annual Fund Raffle are...

Dennis Leibowitz

Rob and Talley Ackerman

On Tuesday, January 22, at noon, the Rowayton Library held his year’s Annual Fund campaign drawing for a handmade quilt or a handmade rug.

And the winners are:  Rob and TalleyAckerman won the Goodwives Rug Hookers Rug and Dennis Leibowitz won the Goodwives Quilters Quilt.  Congratulations!  And thank you to all who support the Rowayton Library!

Great Decisions Discussion Group Begins...

Great Decisions Discussion Group Begins Wednesday, January 23 @ 7pm

The Rowayton Library is pleased to announce that we will be hosting a Great Decisions Discussion Group which will meet on eight Wednesday evenings beginning January 23 at 7 pm.

Developed by the Foreign Policy Association, the Great Decisions Discussion Program is the oldest and largest grass-roots world affairs education program of its kind in the country. The Great Decisions Discussion Program is FPA's public education initiative to create more informed and engaged citizens by bringing people together to discuss U.S. foreign policy and global affairs issues.

The session topics include: Future of the euro, Egypt, NATO, Myanmar and Southeast Asia, Intervention, Iran, China in Africa, and Threat Assessment. 

Materials are provided to participants and are available at the Rowayton Library. This program is free and open to the public. It will meet for 8 sessions led by Erik Rambusch, Adjunct Professor at Norwalk Community College. Discussion dates are 1/23, 2/6, 2/20, 3/6, 3/20, 4/3, 4/17, and 5/1. For more information and program materials, please contact the Library 203-838-5038 or visit greatdecisions.rowayton.org.

Sign Up for World Book Night

Your Rowayton Library is a host site for World Book Night

Volunteer to be a “book giver” on World Book Night U.S – April 23, 2013. It’s free (and so are the books).

On World Book Night 2013, 25,000 “book givers” will each give away 20 copies of a specially-printed, not-for-resale WorldBookNight edition of a book they have read and loved (from this year’s WBN list, selected by librarians and booksellers) to complete strangers – people who may never have owned a book of their own. Book givers receive 20 free paperback copies of one World Book Night title, not too many to carry but enough to share with a good number of potential new readers.

You can participate in WBN 2013 by applying to become a Book Giver. If you are interested in applying to be a Book Giver (the Rowayton Library will be the distribution site for the books), please visit WBN.rowyaton.org. The deadline to apply to be a book giver is January 23, 2013.