RMRT (Retired Members Round Table)

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The Retired Members Round Table (RMRT) shall exist to develop programs of particular interest to retired persons from all types of libraries and all forms of library services, including formal opportunities for continued involvement and learning; a variety of leadership training and opportunities for mentoring; lifelong professional involvement and networking; and active engagement in the American Library Association and the profession of librarianship.

Visit the Retired Members Round Table (RMRT) on the ALA website.

  • 1.  TIME CHANGE for Book Discussion....and answers to questions

    Posted May 19, 2020 02:54 PM
    The time has changed!  Still Tuesday, May 26 -- but 
     Time:  3 ET / 2 CT / 1 MT / noon PT.  (And whatever that works out in Hawaii time.)
    Check back for the Zoom log on URL.  

    An ARC is an Advance Reader Copy.   They used to be called galleys.  Publishers distribute them at conferences.
    If you didn't get any ARCs at Midwinter (because you didn't attend, or because you don't send any home), that's fine.
    Surely you've read a recently-published book in the past five months or so. 

    Our book discussion is more of a book talk.   Each of us chooses a book based on the prompt (=for this, an ARC from MW2020)
    and tells the others why it was good.  

    The list of titles/authors is compiled and published in the RMRT Book Club section of this website. 



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    Nann Hilyard
    Librarian*Quiltmaker*Volunteer
    Winthrop Harbor, Illinois
    https://withstringsattached.blogspot.com
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  • 2.  RE: TIME CHANGE for Book Discussion....and answers to questions

    Posted May 20, 2020 06:44 PM

    It does.  That's 10am here.  I will be on the call.

     

    Nancy Bolt

    Nancy Bolt & Associates . 11710 West 76th Drive . Arvada, CO 80005 . Office: 303 642 0338

     

    What are you reading?  Buy books from local stores.  They need your business more than Amazon.

    Now Reading:  Fascism, A Warning by Mdeleine Albright.  How easily fascism rose around the world in the last century under charismatic leaders who told people what they wanted to hear.

    Last Movie:   Fallen Angel.  No it is not religious.  Action film of a secret service agent falsely accused of trying to assinate the president.  Very violent and predictable so it's easy to relax and just watch.

    Check out visiting our wonderful Hawaii get-away: www.vrbo.com/4964

    Sand, sun, and fun.

     

     




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  • 3.  RE: TIME CHANGE for Book Discussion....and answers to questions

    Posted May 20, 2020 07:55 PM
    New time is great - better,  in fact.  One of my local book groups meets at noon that same day on Google Meet.  Looking forward to seeing RMRT friends!

    Ginny

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    Virginia Palmer
    Retired
    Ohio Academic and Public Libraries
    Middletown, Ohio
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  • 4.  RE: TIME CHANGE for Book Discussion....and answers to questions

    Posted May 26, 2020 02:52 PM

    What is the link to the book discussion?

    I can't find it?

    Nancy

     

    Nancy Bolt

    Nancy Bolt & Associates . 11710 West 76th Drive . Arvada, CO 80005 . Office: 303 642 0338

     

    What are you reading?  Buy books from local stores.  They need your business more than Amazon.

    Now Reading:  Riders of the Purpose Sage by Zane Grey.   Read as a child and found as a donated book at the foodbank/thrift show where volunteer.  And I've learned a secret.  It's really a romance with boots, guns, and wide hats.  And the men love it.  Two lovely romances in Riders.

    Last Movie:   Emma 2020 and Emma 1996.   We watched the 2020 version on Satueday and 1996 with Gwyeth Paltrow on Sunday.  Both very good.  Costumes and humor best in 2020 but 1996 version seemed truer to the book.  Now looking for Clueless.

    Check out visiting our wonderful Hawaii get-away: www.vrbo.com/4964

    Sand, sun, and fun.

     

     




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  • 5.  RE: TIME CHANGE for Book Discussion....and answers to questions

    Posted May 26, 2020 03:09 PM

    Well, it looks like I had the wrong time anyway.  It was at 9am here.   

    I'm sorry.  I had a great book to share.

    But where was the link?

    Nancy

     

    Nancy Bolt

    Nancy Bolt & Associates . 11710 West 76th Drive . Arvada, CO 80005 . Office: 303 642 0338

     

    What are you reading?  Buy books from local stores.  They need your business more than Amazon.

    Now Reading:  Riders of the Purpose Sage by Zane Grey.   Read as a child and found as a donated book at the foodbank/thrift show where volunteer.  And I've learned a secret.  It's really a romance with boots, guns, and wide hats.  And the men love it.  Two lovely romances in Riders.

    Last Movie:   Emma 2020 and Emma 1996.   We watched the 2020 version on Satueday and 1996 with Gwyeth Paltrow on Sunday.  Both very good.  Costumes and humor best in 2020 but 1996 version seemed truer to the book.  Now looking for Clueless.

    Check out visiting our wonderful Hawaii get-away: www.vrbo.com/4964

    Sand, sun, and fun.

     

     




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