Friends Annual Meeting

The Annual Meeting of the Friends of the Santa Fe Public Library will be held on Sunday, January 31st at the Southside Library, 6599 Jaguar Drive. Tours of the Southside Branch will be held at 1:30 p.m., followed by a brief annual meeting of the Friends of the Library.

The Friends of the Library will present its second annual Heart of the Library Award which honors key volunteers who have given greatly of their time to support the Library. This year’s winners are Jane Gillentine and Shirley Ortega. Both women have worked since 1999 in supporting the library and the creation of the Southside Library. Both served as president of the Library Board and the Friends of the Library. Their dedication and commitment brought the Southside Library from an idea to a physical building. Both women continue to volunteer for the Friends of the Library.

At 2:30 p.m., the featured guest speaker will be the noted photographer Lee Marmon of Laguna Pueblo. He will give a presentation on his career as a photographer in the Southwest, which started in 1947. Mr. Marmon, 85, has received many awards and recognitions for his work. His talk will be followed by a poster signing and reception. The program is free and open to the public.

Lee Marmon 's portfolio of black and white images has become a rare visual chronicle of the last generation of Native Americans to live by their traditional ways and values. His best known photograph, "White Man's Moccasins" (1954), has been reproduced and published worldwide. He personally develops his black-and-white prints for historians, galleries, and art collectors.

His images have appeared in various national publications, including The New York Times and Time Magazine and in 1992, he won an ADDY Award for his contribution to the Peabody Award-winning PBS-TV documentary, Surviving Columbus. He is proud of the commissioned work he did for the Washington D.C.-based National American Indian Housing Council, a photo project promoting the Council's efforts to give Native American families access to quality, modern housing. On June 15th, 2006, Marmon was honored with a lifetime achievement award by the Southwestern Association for Indian Arts.

The Friends of the Library is a non-profit dedicated to raising funds to support the work of the Santa Fe Public Library and was formed in 1974.

For more information, contact the Southside Library at 955-2820.