The Second Floor Librarians

Ready for Fall?  The Fall Festival starts this week and the library book club also meets this week.

Activities for all ages are planned to help celebrate the Friends of the Library 50th Anniversary.

The annual Friends of the Library Big Book Sale is coming up! As before, it will be held at the Benton County Fairgrounds (map). All profits from the sale will go towards supporting the library. We are very lucky to have such great supporters! Here are the dates and times for the sale. Get them [...]

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 [...]

The annual Big Book Sale, put on by the Friends of the Library, is coming up this weekend! You’ll find it at the Benton Co. Fairgrounds (map), and the dates and times are as follows: Friday, Feb. 26th, 5 pm – 9 pm Saturday, Feb. 27th, 10 am – 5 pm Sunday, Feb. 28th, 11 [...]

The Friends of the Library do a great job locating presenters for their wildly popular book review series Random Reviews.

Well it’s that time of year again – the Friends of the Library’s Holiday Book Sale is back!

The Friends of the Library are holding a summer book sale in July, for one day only!

The library generates a lot of used books. We buy lots of new books each year, which means a bunch of old stuff has got to go. People also like to donate books to the library – boxes and boxes of them! Many of these aren’t in the sort of condition we require. So what [...]