On with the show

The Friends Spring Used Book Sale made over $7,600 for library programs. It was of one of our most successful sales ever.

It would not have been possible without the efforts of more than 70 volunteers. Those volunteers were recruited and scheduled by Katie Allnutt, herself a volunteer and board member of Friends for two decades. Katie also volunteered weekly in the library, sorting donations and filling, over the years, four or more boxes of books sorted books each week. It takes over 200 boxes of sorted books to put on each sale and, it is safe to day, Katie touched most of them. Thank you, Katie!

Our next sale will be October 22 – 24. We welcome your donations. We start the sale inventory from scratch twice a year. Please see the Donations page of this website for how to donate books and other materials for the sale and for other ways you can help support Friends of the Forest Grove Library.

Friends Spring Used Book Sale

Schedule
The sale will begin with a Members Only Pre-Sale, Wednesday evening, May 13 from 5:30 to 7:30. Only current Friends of the Forest Grove Library members will be admitted. Memberships may be acquired or renewed at the door.
The general admission sale is scheduled for Thursday, May 14 through Saturday, May 16. Hours correspond with the Library’s open hours: Thursday 9:30–7:30, Friday and Saturday 9:30–5:30. Over 8,000 books and other media will be on sale.

Prices
Hardback books are $3, mass market paperbacks (4″ wide) $1, other paperbound books $2, children’s books and coffee table books are priced as marked, CDs, LPs and audio books are $1 and multi-title media sets are $3.

Members Discount
On Friday, May 15, current members of Friends of the Forest Grove Library get a 20% discount on their purchases. Memberships can be started or renewed at the book sale. Dues have been updated recently: $25 Individual / $50 Family / $100 Sustaining. Members will each receive Welcome Packets and Sustaining members will also receive one of our Friends’ Totes.

All members will continue to receive a newsletter (twice a year), invitation to our Annual Meeting (held in April each year), and can select to receive digital reminders of Friends’ sales.

Bag Sale
On Saturday, May 16, all shoppers can fill standard brown paper grocery bags with books and other media and pay just $10 per bag full.

You can help
Volunteers make the sale possible. We need and appreciate your help with set-up (Monday, May 11 to Wednesday, May 13), the sale itself (Thursday, the 14th to Saturday, the 16th) and to clean-up (the morning of Monday, May 18). Please contact Katie Allnutt at allnutt@frontier.com to schedule your preferred job and time slot. Volunteers get two free books of their choice for each shift.

Dealer alert: Friends volunteers have screened book donations and library discards and removed some of them for sale online.