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Library's
Friends plan their annual book sale
By Mary Ann Price
Citizen Staff
The Friends
of the Canton Library are holding their annual book sale
Saturday, September 20, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the library.
Thanks to the generosity of local readers, an estimated 7,000 to
8,000 books will be available for perusal during the sale.
The library
book sale has been taking place for decades in Canton. “It’s a
nice, long tradition,” Friends President Deni Garabedian said.
“It’s evolved and gotten bigger. People look forward to it.”
Garabedian
described what the book sale is like for those who haven’t seen
it before. “They can expect one whole room devoted to children’s
books,” she said. “They can anticipate tons of paperbacks, many
fiction books by current and popular authors, non-fiction,
gardening, history and cooking books, and biographies.”
Adult books
will be stocked in the Community Room, while selections for
children will be sold in the old Friends’ room. Both rooms are
on the lower level of the library. In addition, the Friends may
set up a table outside to attract passersby. Adult paperback
books are $1 each, and hardcover books are $2. Children’s books
will be sold for half the cost of the adult books. Garabedian
said that a limited number of ‘coffee table’ books, those she
described as being in mint condition, will be sold for $3 to $5.
The Friends
use the funds that are raised through the book sale to support
all kinds of activities at the library. “The money is used for
library programs, guest lecturers, special films, museum passes,
the coffeehouses and other things above and beyond what the
library can do,” she explained.
For example,
each year in the spring and the fall, the Friends fund a
landscape cleanup of the library grounds.
Last spring,
the Friends sponsored a ‘Tea with Jackie O.’ A current program
benefiting from last year’s book sale is the children’s free
drop-in movie night from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Bedknobs and
Broomsticks is being shown this evening.
The Friends
also sponsor a perpetual book sale of books that are in
good condition. Those books are located to the left of the
circulation desk and may be purchased during library hours.
The Friends
are still seeking donations of gently used books for the sale.
They can not
accept encyclopedias or computer manuals. The dates for dropping
off books are Thursdays, August 28, September 4, 11 and 18, as
well as Saturday, September 13.
Volunteers
are needed to help with sorting books on the Thursday dates from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. The Friends donate
any unsold books to other organizations.
August 7, 2008
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