Library Friends Meet to Plan Book Fair

The Friends of the Pleasant Valley Free Library met last night (Monday, April 4) to plan events for the next few months, including donations to the Library and a second Mah Jong tournament. But the main emphasis was on the forthcoming annual Book, Plant, and Bake Sale, scheduled for Friday April 29 through May 1 at the Pleasant Valley Town Hall. As in the past, attendance at the April 29 opening at 7:00 p.m. will require a fee of $5 per family, which gives a first crack at the books and plants (the bake sale starts Saturday morning).  Volunteers who worked on Friday afternoon to set up the sale can shop without paying the early-shopper fee.

Getting enough volunteers to set up the sale has been a problem in recent years. There are two phases to the set-up.  Starting about 3:00 p.m. on Friday afternoon, workers begin to move the thousands of books from the basement of the Library, where they have been sorted during the year into boxes by type of book, to the Town Hall.  As books arrive at the Town Hall, a second group of workers unpacks the books from their boxes and arranges them on some 40 tables that are labeled with type--fiction, mystery, cookbooks, science, travel, biography, etc.  There are usually plenty of volunteers for the unpacking and sorting, mostly older women and men.  The problem is with the first stage, where more strength is required. At one time, local men's clubs came out for the heavy lifting and sometime the Boy Scouts helped, but recently it has been more difficult to schedule these kinds of groups; so, if you are in good shape and can use an hour or two of healthy exercise, the Friends hope that you can volunteer.  Just show up at the Library on Friday afternoon April 29 (and plan to visit the book sale 7:00 to 9:00 to get early access free).

Here are some of the details:

**Preview sale ($5 admission per family):

       Friday, April 29     7 – 9 pm

General Sale (Free admission):

       Saturday, April 30   10:00 am – 3:00 pm

       Sunday, May 1     9 am – Noon

 BOOK PRICES

(UNLESS OTHERWISE MARKED)

OVERSIZE                                                                 $3

HARDCOVER                                           $2

PAPERBACKS                                                    

QUALITY                           $1

PULP                                 $ .50

ROMANCE                        10/$1

CHILDREN  and YOUNG ADULT

          HARDCOVER                  $ .50                       PAPERBACKS                   $ .25

VIDEOS                                                        $ .25

CASSETTES                                                $ .50

BOOKS on TAPE                                        $2

BOOKS on CD                                            $1 per CD

                                              (maximum of $5)

SUNDAY BAG SALE - $4.00 per Bag

More on the Friends' meeting in a later post.