Boasting about our Friends
*Image credit below
As many of you know because you were there scooping up bargains, the Friends’ Big Book Sale was the last weekend in February. What a whopping success with a record $37,000 earned! It was the first book sale where folks could use their debit and credit cards and about 17% of the sales came from plastic.
Dozens of volunteers pitched in to make it happen. There were 30 ROTC cadets as well as Youth Volunteer Corps and College Hill School helpers, plus the throng of regulars.
A Friend talked to a lady from Montana at the sale. Apparently, the lady’s family plans their reunion every year to coincide with the book sale. She comes from Montana and her sister comes down from Seattle. Our book sale is a destination vacation!
So if you missed it this year, come next year. Read the blog to track the smaller sales throughout the year. (To be sure you don’t miss a post, sign up to get the blog via email (top right of this page), or subscribe to our RSS feed.) You can always buy some reading material between sales in the Friends’ area here at the Corvallis Library or the Philomath Library.
In a little while, the Friends will begin accepting donations again. They have scored a new storage area on Wake Robin. If you are sorting books as part of your spring cleaning, hold those items. You will soon be able to bring them to the main library and leave them for the Friends.
Posted by Amy, a second floor librarian
*Image credit: AQS Collector Books “hurt” book sale by circulating, on Flickr
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