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Book Sales & Events Friends at The Library
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Save the date!31st Annual Bargain Booksale will be held at the George R. Brown Convention Center, April 17-19, 2009.Thousands of books in various categories will be placed in Exhibit Hall A. Please join us at this wonderful community event! *** Support your library! Membership with the Friends of the Houston Public Library supports activities at the local branches and the Central Library. Click here to sign up or renew today. Become a volunteer and help at our book sales. Or if you prefer something behind the scenes, join us at the warehouse on Saturdays from 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. at 6510 West Little York. WE CAN TAKE TEXTBOOKS NOW! The Friends is now actively seeking donations of used textbooks, K-12 and college level, especially those with a recent copyright date. We discouraged textbook donations in the past because we have had no success in selling them at our annual sale. That is still true. However, last year the Friends signed a partnership agreement with Better World Books, a company that sells donated books to support literacy efforts around the world. Better World Books has a huge market for used textbooks and we are eager to try our luck in selling through them. When the Friends consign books to Better World Books, we receive a commission on each sale. Last year the Friends sent the leftovers from the Annual Bargain Book Sale – the books that we couldn’t sell – to Better World Books. To date they have sold over 7,000 of our leftovers, and the Friends has earned over $2,000 to add to our book sale proceeds. Now we want to add textbooks to our consignments. Textbook drives could be a great project for scout troops or school groups, especially those in private schools. In these schools, the students themselves (meaning the parents) are responsible for providing their own textbooks. When a semester ends it is time consuming to sell them. A teacher may change textbooks or a new edition is published, making sales even more difficult. Now there is the option of donation to the Friends, knowing that if the book is sold the Houston Public Library will benefit from the proceeds. Used textbooks can be delivered to our warehouse at 6510 West Little York. The Friends will always provide a receipt for tax purposes. Click here for more information on donating books to the Friends. For more information on how to get started, email the Friends at info@friendsofhpl.org or call the Friends office at 832-393-1387. |
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