JANUARY 2000
What's New?
Word for Word to perform in March
Word for Word will be back in town in March with their production
of Alice Munro's "Friend of my Youth".
The performance is scheduled for 5:00 p.m. on March 18th
at the Maison Pour Tous in Celleneuve.
Word for Word stages literary works, using the author's texts verbatim
(including "he says" and "she says"). This program is
made possible by a grant from the Florence Gould Foundation and the
support of Air France.
See the following links for information about
Word For Word and reviews of
past performances.
See
Word for Word's Web site
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Jeri Lynn Cohen and
JoAnne Winter in Word for Word's production of
Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth
Photo credit: Jaime Kibben |
WORD FOR WORD
1360 Mission Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 543-9505
(415) 626-1138 fax
Word for Word is a program of the Z Space Studio
LIBRARY MOVE
The Library will be closing February 19th to prepare for
its move to the Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire on the "Richter
Campus".
Needless to say that this is a big project that will require a lot of time
to complete. The new library will be located on the first floor of the
building on the side facing the river. It is scheduled to re-open on
May 3rd.
The Richter campus is located on the Lez River near the Conseil
Régional building. Bus number 2 stops in front of the library
building and the Tramway will stop there also when it is completed in
June.
GOODBYE FROM KEVIN
In February the American Library will move into the Bibliothèque
inter-universitaire. Due to budget constraints, I will no longer be a
member of the American Library's Staff.
I have enjoyed my seventeen years of service to our community and I am
especially proud of our development over the years (We have doubled in size
since my arrival). I am also happy to have been able to expand the Library’s
opening hours so members can visit after working hours. I have derived
immense satisfaction from my efforts to help produce concerts and plays that
generated publicity for the library and brought us new members. I have also
enjoyed setting up the American Library Public Access Computer system that
brought our library into the Information/Internet Age. I hope to be able to
maintain this web site as long as possible; but between hosting the site as
I have at my own expense, and paying the rent... I'm afraid my landlady has
the upper hand.
So, it is with a heavy heart that I bid you all “adieu”. I wish you
all the best. Please visit the new American Library in “Richter” as
often as you can. Françoise will still be there to welcome you and to help
you find whatever you need.
-Kevin Lightner
THEME OF THE MONTH
Our "Theme of the month" for January is "Looking back at Tomorrow". Now
that the year 2000 is actually here, I thought it would be amusing to
display books, magazine articles, cartoons and advertisements featuring
predictions of the future. I've selected materials from the forties, the
fifties and the sixties containing "visions of the future from the
past".
-KL
