Posts Tagged ‘friends of the library’

Boasting about our Friends

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 [...]

Friends of the Library Big Book Sale!

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 am – 4 [...]

Nothing Random about Random Reviews!

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

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Holiday book sale coming up!

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

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Summer book sale!

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

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Where do all those old books go?!

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 happens with [...]