Welcome to Linda Conklin, our new Author Events Coordinator.   Linda will work closely with our Board Events  and  Fund-raising  Chair,  Ellen  Burns,  to  plan  and  coordinate  author  events  for  the  coming  year.  She  will  also  be  working  in  collaboration  with  our  CPH  librarians  to  facilitate  Library  author  events.  Linda believes that author visits are a wonderful way to invite the community to the library.  She plans to explore introducing a "Clifton Park-Halfmoon Reads" program to our Library and  is confident that she can use the skills she has acquired to accomplish this goal.
 
Linda moved from Scotia to Clifton Park at the end of 2002 and joined the Friends of the Library in 2004.  For  many  years,  she  worked  for  Schenectady County  as  planner  of  their  employment  and  training programs focusing on youth employment, particularly summer youth employment. After taking an early retirement incentive from the county, Linda transitioned into maternal and child health working briefly at the Maternal and Infant Network of the Capital Region followed by a five-year stint at Bellevue Woman's Center where she administered a program for at-risk pregnant women.
 
An  avid  reader,  Linda spends  many  delightful  hours  with  books  right  here  at  our wonderful  Library.  Linda also belongs to a neighborhood book club that she says . . . "is lots of fun!" 
 
Linda plays bridge and Mah Jongg, and enjoys her grandchildren, traveling, gardening and trying to keep fit and healthy.  As a volunteer, she ushers at Proctor's Theater and at Capital Rep. She has three grown children - two boys and a girl.   Her daughter is a published author with three books to her credit.  

Last spring, the Friends of the Library Board commissioned local artist Marcie Reed Slot to create full-color framed depictions of each of our former library buildings and our beautiful "new" library.  The renderings chronicle the history of our Library and now enhance the Josephine Piracci Board Room.  They are permanently displayed on the wall facing the Library foyer.
 
An architectural illustrator, Marcie is celebrating her 25th year in business.  She has had the unique experience of creating personal, lasting memories of a most valuable investment:  the family home.  Specializing in pen and ink, watercolor, and pencil renderings, Slot is able to create an exquisite illustration.  Recognized for attention to details, she has even been known to include the family dog or cat peeking out of the window of lounging in the yard.
 
Marcie has drawn thousands of elevations and floor plans for local builders to use in brochure designs.  Many real estate agents have given her home illustrations as closing gifts for their clients.  She has also illustrated residential homes, camps, schools, fire departments, and churches.  Her most recent endeavor is her pictorial history of the Clifton Park-Halfmoon Public Library.
 
Slot has consistently produced admirable work that has been featured in The Sunday Gazette, The Capital District Showcase of Home, Saratoga Showcase of Homes, Harmon Homes Magazine and The Real Estate Channel.  She is the recipient of a Saratoga Showcase Award and VIP recipient of the Cambridge Who's Who Award.  When Marcie is not designing and illustrating, she enjoys spending time with her twin daughters and grandchildren.  Examples of Marcie Reed Slot's work can be viewed at www.houseart.biz.

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