One Book, One Springfield 2007

One Book, One Springfield

Library Director's Welcome

The Springfield City Library's One Book, One Springfield project has become an annual program that is anticipated by Springfield residents. It provides opportunities for people of all ages, cultures, and ethnic backgrounds to come together to explore issues that are important to all of us. This year's selection, Tuesdays With Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lessons is a book that reminds us all that love, compassion, and forgiveness are universal emotions that bind us together. Many thanks to the One Book, One Springfield Steering Committee for their thoughtful selection and for their creative programming ideas that will most certainly enable each of us to experience the book in our own way.

Kevin Durocher , Valley Radio Reading Service

Sylvia Humphrey-Spann , retired library supervisor

Leslie LaBranch , Springfield College

Rebecca Lartigue , Springfield College, Friends of the Library

Tom Mahnken , Tide Radio, Williamsburg, VA; formerly of WRNX radio, Springfield

Elizabeth O'Donaghue , City of Springfield Planning Department

Erica Walch , Armoury-Quadrangle Civic Association

Thanks also to the following library staff members, without whom One Book, One Springfield could never take place: Linda Grodofsky (Project Coordinator) Lori Chasen, Connor Heim, Christine Kasputis, Janet Kelly, and Janet Stupak.

Whether you choose to participate in a One Book, One Springfield book discussion group, scrapbooking workshop, oral history session, student essay contest, lecture or film screening, I believe that your participation will help bring us closer together as a community. The Springfield City Library is proud to sponsor One Book, One Springfield as part of our commitment to providing opportunities for people to read, to discuss, to listen, and to enjoy the diversity of ideas our city has to offer. Thank you for joining us!

Emily Bader