Friends' Book Sale

Here it is the end of summer and September is right around the corner and that means Friends' Book Sale at Riverside Park. This year the sale is just two days - Friday and Saturday so plan to come early and stay late. The best deals are made late but the best books are found early so you decide.

The Library Friends use all of their money for the library and our work. They buy our lease books program and our talking books; they fund most of our programs by paying for speakers, banners, invitations, refreshments, and even the gifts for our Tree Lighting Festival; they underwrite our Reading is Fundamental effort that places a book in the hands of every 5th grader in Independence that we can reach; and they have purchased more equipment than I care to list.

The Friends is a volunteer group who sign up to serve and they do it on behalf of all library users and library supporters. There are not very many of the 'worker bees' in our Friends' hive which in no way reflects on the amount of work they accomplish because they get the job done, and there are a group of other Friends they can call on for special efforts like helping at the book sale or baking something special for a program.

If you have books to donate for the sale please do. If you want to come and look for books to buy please do. Both things are for a good cause.