New FOML Email Address

[Report by Maggie]

I want to let everyone know that our new Friends of the Milton Library email is fomlemail@gmail.com

Please use that email for all Friends of the Milton Library email correspondence. You may also send your submissions to the newsletter to that email address. I am transitioning away from the old yahoo email.

I will publish the August newsletter soon. If you want to contribute an article or recipe to the September newsletter please be sure to email it to me by the 20th of August. All electronic submissions must be received by the 20th of the month prior to the one you want it published in.  If you send a handwritten article please be aware that it must be received no later than the 5th of the month prior to the month you want it submitted in and be aware that I may scan it into computer and paste it into the newsletter instead of transcribing it depending on the length and subject matter. All handwritten correspondence is to be sent to FOML Editor, c/o Maggie Leiterman  at PO Box 813 Bagdad, FL 32530.  Do not send membership applications to that address, send those to the FOML c/o Milton Library, 5541 Alabama Street, Milton FL 32570.

 

 

 

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Letter from Editor

This announcement is to let all the membership and followers know that the Book Committee has decided that our organization should not renew our Chamber of Commerce Membership. They also said that the newsletter should end. Below is my position on these decisions and I would appreciate input from the membership and followers to tell your opinion.

I disagree with stopping the newsletter and I disagree with not renewing Chamber of Commerce Membership, and I hope the Committee will consider what I have to say; which is this:

Our next meeting is in September and all this should be discussed in a meeting with the membership in attendance to discuss it.  I plan to continue the newsletter each month – because we offered Corporate members to join with the promise of having their business card in the newsletter for one year from the time they joined, and I don’t think it would be good form to go back on that promise. I stated previously that I can copy and paste the Library News and all other items easily, none of that is a problem for me, but it takes me the most time to decipher Ned’s hand written article and then type it all up, but I can scan in his handwritten article just as I did last month. If Ned doesn’t want to continue his article that’s fine, but I will continue and I think it is a bad decision to stop membership at the Chamber. I hope the Book Committee will reconsider that decision. We get a good value for the Chamber of Commerce membership, and it does help make people aware of the Library Services which is what the FOML mission is supposed to do, and since the Library doesn’t have a membership with the Chamber of Commerce, I think we are the link to that outreach through the Chamber in the community. The marque in front of the the Chamber of Commerce building running our announcements from time to time helps bring people to the library and each month the Chamber has us on their website with our newsletter and calendar of events, not to mention the inserts in the Gazette due to being a member of the Chamber. I know I haven’t went to the Community Council quarterly meetings lately but I have went in the past and I do plan to go again in the future. The Chamber of Commerce also has other events they provide for membership to present the mission of our organization.

Please chime in on this matter and let the organization know how you feel.

Thanks,
Maggie Leiterman
Friends of the Milton Library
Secretary
Editor and Publisher of the Newsletter
Membership Committee Chair 
Publicity Committee Chair
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