Ooh, sorry to hear that. Our library parties have been pretty good. The (now retired) director used to take us all out to a nice restaurant for dinner and drinks, paid for out of some discretionary fund that was hers to use as she saw fit. It was always pleasant. About three years ago she switched to having it at her home, catered, so spouses or significant others could be invited. That has been good too. The last couple of times it was nowhere near Christmas because so many people were traveling or unavailable in December, so we've had it at Presidents' Day and 2009 it was in the summer.

Dunno what will happen (if anything) this year.