"My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven't met yet. She's now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia." Dame Edna Everage

Friendly Area Neighbors

a website for FAN, the community organization for inner southwest Eugene.
Articles about the Friendly Area Neighborhood

a log of press articles about the Friendly neighborhood in SW Eugene.
Readin' in the Rain 2007

"Providence of a Sparrow" by Chris Chester.
Readin' in the Rain 2006

"Crescent" by Diana Abu-Jaber, the award-winning novel of Arab-American life.
Readin' in the Rain 2005

this year's theme is Frontier Oregon with "The Jump-off Creek" by Molly Gloss.
Readin' in the Rain 2004

featuring "The Lathe of Heaven" by Ursula LeGuin.
Readin' in the Rain 2003

this year's county-wide reading project is "Fire's Edge" by LCC's own Alan Siporin.
Readin' in the Rain 2002

LCC Library participated in this first community reading project, featuring Ken Kesey's masterpiece "Sometimes a great notion."
The Eugene Post Office Murals

a co-production with the Oregon Festival of American Music, this webpage discusses the WPA-era murals in the lobby of the Eugene Main Post Office. The murals were the work of Carl Morris, Oregon's best-known artist, and were chosen as the theme to OFAM's 2000 series.
included are the first-ever professionally photographed images of these stunning murals.
Coquille Tribal Library

a tribal library for the Coquille Indian Tribe at a new facility in Bandon, Oregon.

Conferences

Online Northwest 2007 Conference, Corvallis
Keep Up: Useful New Technologies in Libraries, aka OCLC Emerging Library Technologies, Eugene
SC2: The Slayage Conference on the Whedonverse, Barnesville, Georgia
Northwest Anthropological Conference, Eugene
Oregon Library Association, Portland
Slayage Conference on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nashville, Tennessee

Assn. of Oregon Archaeologists
Buffyology
Eugene Macintosh Users Group
Flags of the World
LCC Education Assn.
New Zealand Archaeological Assn.
North American Vexillological Assn.
Nummy Treat
Oregon Archaeological Society
Oregon Library Assn.
Popular Culture Assn.
SlayerLit
Society for the Study of Indigenous Languages of the Americas

since 1 August 2007