Thanks for all the goodies!

Book donations...The other day, I walked into the book shed where we sort and pack books, DVD/CDs, tapes and records for the January and In Library Book Sales, thinking I had a few spare minutes to help out.  I did a double-take:  plastic bins, cardboard boxes, and paper bags were piled high, and three hours later, just as I was down to the last book, in came yet another bag full!
Our Brown Library Friends certainly know how to answer a call!  Last month we mentioned here and in our newsletter that we needed more book donations to make our biggest fundraiser of the year the great success it always has been, and since then, you've responded generously.  Keep them coming!  As much work as it means for Sharon Johnston, Susan Schwing, Teresa Crozier and the other volunteer sorters and packers, we heartily thank you! 

Volunteering...If you'd like to volunteer to help with the January sale, be sure to find Katie Lake, between now and early January.  She will be glad to add your name to the long list of old- and new-timers who have come out to make the Washington Civic Center a veritable book treasure hunt.  All you have to know is the alphabet!

Saturday Farmer's Market Book Sales

Have you ventured down to the farmer's market 

on the Washington Waterfront yet?  

Lil' Washington's Saturday Market

Our Book Booth

Each Saturday morning from 8AM until Noon vendors set up booths

of fresh local and organic veggies, fruit, home baking and preserves,

plants, hand crafts and wood working to sell to our community.  

Friends Of The Brown Library volunteers are there too!  We set up 

and sell used books at a deep discount.   A lot of our friends come

 weekly to return the books they bought on previous Saturdays to sell 

again and then pick out a few more.  

Mmmm Books

Book donations can be made to the Brown Library during 

regular library hours.

Hard Backs for $2.00!

If you would like to volunteer on Saturdays please 
send us a note and we would love to have you!  It's 
always a good morning out at the market meeting up 
with old friends and meeting new ones.  


We hope to see you out!

Thank You Book Sale Volunteers!

The Annual Friends of Brown Library Book Sale took place over the weekend of January 20 - 22nd, 2012 at the Civic Center in Washington NC.   We would like to THANK the many volunteers who came out to help make this event an enormous success.  Many of our volunteers spent the better part of the week with us lifting boxes, unpacking and organizing books; alphabetically, by genre, by title!    

Raul & Team Transported The Books

The books are donated by the community throughout the year.  Our Friends help to organize the books before they are put in storage until the book sale.  Raul and his team transported the books from the storage unit to the Civic Center in several truck loads.

Volunteers Worked Tirelessly Over TWO Days 

Our volunteers began at 8:30 AM Tuesday moving boxes and beginning to sort and unpack books.  

Volunteer & Friend of The Brown Library, Sue Fish. 

By Wednesday at 5pm the room was pretty much complete! As you can see below this was no small feat.

Amazing isn't it?
20 Thousand books set up in TWO days.

 

Taaa Daaa!  Ready To Open the Sale To The Public

On Thursday night the doors were open for a couple of hours to allow the Friends of The Brown Library MEMBERS to shop pre-sale ... this is an amazing perk of membership!

Nancy Nash, our book sale founder, is all set to greet & check out buyers.

We could NOT offer this book sale without our volunteers.  The Friends of the Brown Library are so appreciative of the support of our community and the enthusiasm and hard work of the volunteers.  This weekend is the ultimate proof in a belief in the good of our Library and its programs.  


THANK YOU to all volunteers and to the community who join us each year to buy used books to benefit The Friends of Brown Library Programs.