Peninsula Friends of the Library

We’ve just added a section to pvldfriends.org called “I Love PVLD” — with some of the facts and figures about our terrific libraries. We’ll be adding comments about our libraries from time to time. See the I Love PVLD category for more.

For our first “I Love PVLD” feature, please meet Janey Jones. A long-time library volunteer, Janey was elected to a two-year term as president of the Peninsula Friends of the Library (PFL) in January 2010.

“I definitely love PVLD,” Janey says. “For the past 20 years I have volunteered in several areas to help make sure our District has the resources and services it needs to best serve the community.”

In 2009 she served as Membership Chair on the PFL Board and membership began to increase due to the Committee’s strategic planning and outreach. Debby Stegura now chairs the Membership Committee.

Janey’s service to the District began in the 1990s when the new main library was being remodeled. She loved PVLD right from the start, she says.

She created the docent training program for the main library, wrote the training manual, and recruited and trained 24 docents in the first year. Simultaneously, she was serving on the Miraleste Library Advisory Committee. She was next elected to the Library Board of Trustees where she served for eight years, three of them as president. During this time she also founded and served as president of the Friends of Friendship Park for six years.

From 1997-2005, Janey also served as treasurer of CALTAC, a state-wide organization for library trustees and commissioners. She continues as a leader/moderator for its Board Effectiveness Training program.

Currently, Janey is the vice president of the Peninsula Symphony and also has served as Chair of Concerts for five years. She is also a member of the Affinity Group, a support group of the Volunteer Center for the South Bay and is a cast member of the Readers Theater of AAUW.

“The Friends work so hard in many different areas to provide the resources to the District for several special programs including the Summer Reading Program, Sunday hours at the Peninsula Center Library, Internet access at all three libraries, the Teen Center, and special purchases of items for the library collections, furnishings and equipment,” Janey says. “I look forward to greater growth of PFL so we can increase and perpetuate assistance to the District.”

For a complete story about Janey and Jim Jones and their involvement at PVLD and in the community that ran in Peninsula People in January 2010, go to “Keeping Up With the Joneses.”

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