<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPhone</div><div dir="ltr"><br>Begin forwarded message:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> Iowa Library for the Blind <donotreply@wordpress.com><br><b>Date:</b> October 20, 2025 at 9:00:44\u202fAM CDT<br><b>To:</b> don.wirth@gmail.com<br><b>Subject:</b> <b>National Friends of the Library Week, October 19-25</b><br><br></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr">\ufeff
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Join us as our library spends this week, October 19-25, 2025, celebrating our amazing Friends of the Library group as part of the annual celebration of National Friends of Libraries Week.
In April, the Friends of the Iowa Library for the Blind \u2026 </span>
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By <strong class="name" style="font-weight: 700; letter-spacing: -.01em; font-size: 16px;">Leslie Heinzler</strong> on <span class="date" style="white-space: nowrap;">October 20, 2025</span> </p>
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<li style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-left: 8px; margin-top: 24px;">Providing Kindle Fires for volunteer audio narrators to use when recording books </li>
<li style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-left: 8px; margin-top: 24px;">Purchasing program materials for youth activities </li>
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<li style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-left: 8px; margin-top: 24px;">Purchasing print/braille and large print books for the adult and youth collections </li>
<li style="font-family: -apple-system,system-ui,blinkmacsystemfont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Oxygen-Sans,Ubuntu,Cantarell,"Helvetica Neue",sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.7; padding: 0; color: #101517; margin-left: 8px; margin-top: 24px;">Supporting the library's outreach activities </li>
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<strong>Save the Date: Annual Friends of the Library Holiday Concert</strong> </h2>
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