The Friends of the Library has a full and varied programming line-up planned for late winter and spring. Please join us for these events planned and funded by the FOL. All events except the Book & Author Luncheon are in the library's Lapham Room. 

• The FOL kicks off its 2012 programming with a return of the popular paperback book swap on Saturday March 3 from 1-4 p.m.  At this event, hundreds of patrons share thousands of gently used paperbacks. Children's, teen and adult books are welcome, but please bring no more than 20, although you may take as many as you like. 
• FOL University on Sunday March 25 at 1:30 p.m. will feature Professor Orin Grossman of Fairfield University speaking on Leonard Bernstein and Aaron Copland. The presentation will include a piano performanc of El Salon Mexico. FOL U patrons will remember Prof. Grossman's standing-room only program on George Gershwin last fall.
• Noted authors Lucette Lagnado and Andre Aciman will discuss how the Egypt of their youth informs their work at the annual Ruth D. Bogen Memorial Lecture on Wednesday April 18 at 7:30 p.m. Lagnado is an investigative reporter for the Wall Street Journal and award-winning memoirist of The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit and its newly published sequel, The Arrogant Years. Aciman is a Distinguished Professor of Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center. Among his works are the novel Call Me by Your Name, the memoir Out of Egypt, and the new Alibis: Essays on Elsewhere.
• The Friends’ 43rd annual Book & Author Luncheon will take place on Friday May 11 at 11 a.m. at a new venue, the North Hills Country Club. Information on the authors and registration procedures will appear in upcoming newsletters and online at pwpl.org. Save the date!

The Friends annual fundraising appeal is underway now.  Your support allows us to continue to underwrite library programs and services, as well as produce our own special events. Donate online at pwpl.org/fol or use donation envelopes available at the library.