Library prepares to mount DILOA show
So thanks to everyone who brought me prints, or dropped them at Iris. The prints have been collected and handed over to the most awesome crew at Pack Memorial Library in downtown Asheville. Here’s what’s happening:
Posting the prints:
Tammy Silver and her colleagues have already begun printing pages for the mounting of your photographs. With the blessing of library director Ed Sheary, the library group plans to mount about 150 photos and put them in the windows along the library hall leading to the parking, and possibly windows out front.
Tammy said she expects that photos to start going up next week some time. She’ll let me know, and I’ll let you guys know. The photos will be posted for about one month.
This is a massive, time-consuming undertaking. Endless thanks to the library staffers for their support of Day in the Life of Asheville.
How you can help:
The library folks need window washers. They need volunteers to wash and clean old tape off the windows. They’ll let me know. It will probably be early next week.
The reception:
The library staff is open to us throwing a reception. They say nobody else has done it, so we’ll be the first. So we get to set the bar!
The library closes at 8 p.m. every day except Friday, when it closes at 6. So an after-work reception on a Monday-through-Thursday sounds good. We need to pick a date when the Asheville Civic Center doesn’t have a big event, because lots of folks park in the center deck and crowd the hallway on event nights.
The library will provide tables. No chairs. We probably need to focus on finger food - light and easy to clean. Drinks, but no alcohol, on county-owned property.
Music - a boombox? A local musician or two to volunteer, since we don’t have any money?
Wireless - the county is installing a localized wireless system. It looks like it will be functional by the time we get our reception together, so if people want to bring laptops to look at photos, they should be able to use the library wireless.
