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Friends of the Abilene Public Library are currently accepting donations for their annual book sale in June. Books can be dropped off at the Main Library, 202 Cedar Street, during the designated times.
United for Libraries USA provides many resources for Friends of Libraries groups, some of which include book club suggestions, factsheets, a listserv to share ideas, free toolkits and contact information for existing State Friends Groups. [38] In Australia, the Friends of Libraries Australia also has Junior Friends groups.
You’ve probably heard of libraries accepting book donations. But Wizards of the Coast, a subsidiary of Hasbro, made a very different kind of donation to libraries across Washington recently ...
Reading to Kids also strives to develop the library resources of participating schools through book donations. The books purchased or donated for use at the reading clubs are later donated to school libraries. Additionally, at the conclusion of each reading club the children are given free books. Reading to Kids notes that "60% percent of low ...
Little Free Library in a Tokyo Metro station. The first Little Free Library was built in 2009 by the late Todd Bol in Hudson, Wisconsin. [9] Bol mounted a wooden container, designed to look like a one-room schoolhouse, on a post on his lawn and filled it with books as a tribute to his late mother, a book lover and school teacher who had recently died. [10]
Dolly Parton visited Kansas in August for an event with Gov. Laura Kelly to celebrate her Imagination Library of Kansas. A new law will allow the state to collect private donations for the book ...
Book Aid International is a UK registered charity which provides books and supports libraries in Africa and around the world. Every year the charity sends books to public and community libraries as well as libraries in prisons, refugee camps, hospitals, schools and universities.
The library accepts used book donations and hosts three large used book sales every year, with the summer sale often being considered the largest in Connecticut. [29] [30] Attracting around 8,000 people annually, it is the library’s largest special event, raising a significant percentage of the library’s operating budget. The sale generally ...