SPRING BOOK SALE April 27, 28, 29
Hood County Public Library
222 N. Travis St.
Granbury, TX
Join Friends of the Library and Shop Early
FRIDAY, April 27, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. (MEMBERS ONLY DAY)
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
SATURDAY, April 28, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and SUNDAY, April 29, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Sunday is Box Day (box of books for $5)
Most paperbacks 25 cents. Most hardbacks $1. Many extra special books. Now accepting MasterCard, VISA and Discover cards.
Proceeds benefit the Hood County Public Library.
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED to help set up on Wednesday, April 25, noon-6 p.m. and Thursday, April 26, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m. maritacrowder@gmail.com or 817-578-0164
After making your purchases at our Spring Book Sale on Friday or Saturday, be sure to participate in the annual Granbury Wine Walk on beautiful Granbury Square and support some
local charities and vendors.
The FoL in-library Book Store has expanded its shopping hours! Now, the Store is open on Mondays!
New FoL Book Store hours (weekly):
Monday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Tuesday 4 – 8 p.m.
Wednesday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Saturday Noon – 4 p.m.
FoL has short-term and ongoing Volunteer opportunities. Have fun and make a special contribution to the community!
FoL is seeking a Volunteer Newsletter Editor. Duties include: formatting quarterly newsletter in MS Word from articles submitted by the Friends Executive Board, and distributing the newsletter via email or regular post. Contact Linda Somervill: 817-573-7000 or president@hoodfol.org.
Volunteers are needed to help with set-up, operation, and clean-up for the Fall 2011 Book Sale being held October 21-23. Contact Marita Crowder at 817-579-7761 or maritacrowder@gmail.com.
To Volunteer to work in the FoL Book Store, contact Annette Joseph: 254-326-1120 or lrjoseph@charter.net.
Scary fun is coming to Hood County Library. Be part of it! Volunteers are needed to staff booths, set-up and clean-up. Contact Library Assistant Director Samantha Smith Norris at 817-573-3569 or srsmith@co.hood.tx.us.
Friends of the Library for Hood County
The Friends of the Library for Hood County is pleased to announce the May 25th Grand Opening of our in-Library Book Store!
Join the Friends of the Library and the Granbury Chamber of Commerce for:
FoL Book Store Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
4:30 p.m. – May 25th
222 N. Travis St.
Granbury TX 76048
The Book Store will open at 10:00 a.m. on May 25th
FoL Book Store hours (weekly) will be:
Tuesday 4:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Wednesday 10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Saturday 12:00 Noon – 4:00 p.m.
FoL will celebrate the premiere opening of the new Friends’ Book Store in the Hood County Library by holding – guess what – a Book Sale! Come shop the sale and catch an advance glimpse of the new Book Store!
As always, members shop first at our sales! The sales feature hard and soft cover books from popular fiction authors, non-fiction books, and childrens books as well as Music CDs, Video Tapes, DVDs, and Books on Tape.
Members Only Sale – Friday, April 29th, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
Sale opens to the Public – Saturday, April 30th, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
BOX DAY, $5 a box – Sunday, May 1st, 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Don’t miss this opportunity to support the Friends and the Hood County Library while stocking-up for summer reading needs at huge savings!
Questions? E-mail: booksales@hoodfol.org
The Book Sale Committee is busy as a one-armed paper hanger as we prepare for the Grand Opening this spring of our used bookstore in the library. So much to do: signage, organizing books by topic, shelving, pricing. Many thanks to Courtney Kincaid, interim Library Director, and the library staff for working with us on this big project.
QUESTIONS:
WHERE: In the “old” library area off the meeting room on the Travis St. side of the library
HOURS: Three times a week, fours hours each time (TBA), including some evenings and Saturdays also.
WHAT: Great selections of current fiction, nonfiction and other media, bargain books, and a children’s section. We will have something for everyone.
FOL MEMBERS will get special discounts. ANNUAL BOOK SALES will continue; a benefit of FOL membership is early shopping privileges at these events.
For a limited time, FoL is offering bargain used books in fair to very good condition for sale at $2/per box. Boxes are sorted by genre and format (hardback vs. paperback). Special bargain on romance genre mass paperback books – $1/per box. Must pick-up books at the library in Granbury. For more information, contact the Friends of the Hood County Library at booksales@hoodfol.org.
Thanks go out to our Friends’ Members and other shoppers for another great Semi-annual Fall Book Sake in October, 2010. Special thanks go to all the special Friends Volunteers who never fail to help us make each sale a big success. We all enjoy the sight of people browsing books to find just the right “reads” for the upcoming winter season.
Speaking of winter, we’re entering the Christmas shopping season! Our weekly Wagon Wednesday sales have resumed. Members and non-members alike can shop our “mini” book sale held in the Library foyer each Wednesday from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. Wagon Wednesday sales feature “like new” hard and soft cover books from popular fiction authors, non-fiction books, and children’s books as well as Music CDs, Video Tapes, DVDs, and Books on Tape.
Thanks also to those who took the Friends of the Library for Hood County Night flyer to Chili’s on October 25. As a result of your efforts, we’ll be getting a nice “give back” check from Chili’s soon.
The Friends of the Library for Hood County is in need of Volunteers for the upcoming Fall ’10 semi-annual Book Sale.
Set-up for the Book Sale runs into National Friends of Libraries Week (October 17-23)! So, please consider Volunteering to help the Friends! A Volunteer Sign-up sheet is available at the Front Desk of the Library. You may also contact Book Sales Chair Jack Padilla.
The Friends need Volunteers for three tasks during the Book Sale (all times are “come when you can”):
Book Sale Set-up
Thursday October 14 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Table/Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Friday October 15 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Table/Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Monday October 18 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Table/Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Tuesday October 19 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Wednesday October 20 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Thursday October 14 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Table/Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Sales Assistance Volunteers
Friday, October 22 and Saturday October 23, three shifts: 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m., 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Cashiers, Door-Prize/Membership Table Assistant, Floor Assistance, and Re-Stocking Assistance.
Sunday October 24, one shift: 1:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m.: Cashiers, Door-Prize Table Assistant, Floor Assistance, and Re-Stocking Assistance.
Clean-up Assistance
The week after the sale, Monday & Tuesday, October 25 & 26, we will need help with Table Break-Down, Box Moving, Book Boxing, & General Clean-up : 10:00 a.m.-7:00 p.m.
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY
FALL SEMI-ANNUAL BOOK SALE – 2010
WHERE: Hood County Library
WHEN: October 22-24
Friday October 22 and Saturday October 23 – 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday October 24 – 1:00 to 4:00 p.m.
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- Friday, October 22 is Members Only Shopping Day
Mark Your Calendars!
Huge Selection of Books & Media
BRING YOUR OWN BOOK SHOPPING BAGS TO ENTER OUR DOOR PRIZE DRAWINGS!
If you need to renew your dues for the current 2010-11 year, please take a moment to download the membership form and drop it by the Library with your remittance or mail it to the address given on the form.
(Download a full-sized copy)
Note: The Friends of the Library of Hood County have entered into an agreement with a company who will soon be selling some of our books and other media online, which has reduced our inventory by some 78 special titles. This still leaves thousands of titles for browsing at our sale.
Book Sale Finder
The FoL Spring ’10 Book Sale was a huge success. This Spring’s event brought in almost $10k in sales and around $2k in memberships. Thank you, FoL Members and Shoppers!
Congratulations to a spectacular Book Sale Volunteer crew! We had an amazing number of FoL Volunteers helping with the set-up process. We think we may have had the greatest number of books ever, and everyone just went to work and got them all sorted with smiles on their faces. A special “Thanks” goes to the First National Bank of Granbury for providing eco-friendly tote bags for our shoppers.The FoL Volunteers who worked during the Book Sale were all extremely helpful, and we received many compliments from our shoppers!
Spring '10 Book Sale Success
Another special “Thanks” to the FoL Volunteer clean-up crew. That’s always the job we do not look forward to, and we had some great workers on Monday and Tuesday after the Sale.
Book Sale Chairs Sandy Bryant, Dee Gormley, Mary Lee, and Sandra Tarver wish we could tell each of you “Thanks” personally. You are all true Friends of the Hood County Library!
Book Sale Guru, Dee Gormley
FoL member Connie Youngblood has been helping her mother, Imogene Green, “downsize” her book collection. Thanks to their donation of many books, a set of sixty-six Zane Grey novels, hardcover Walter J. Black editions dating from the early 1960s to late 1970s, will be featured at the Friends’ semi-annual Book Sale this Spring. According to the Zane Grey’s West Society, this set originally included seventy-five books; five of the books included in the sixty-six books donated to the FoL are classified as “hard-to-find”.
Courtesy of the Zane Grey's West Society
The novel The Camp Robber, copyrighted in 1979, is among the hard-to-find titles donated to the Friends. Other hard-to-find titles include the Zane Grey: Biography volume, and the novels Boulder Dam (1963), Knights of the Range (1964), Blue Feather (1961); and The Wolf Tracker (1976).
The Friends of the Library for Hood County is in need of Volunteers for the upcoming Spring ’10 semi-annual Book Sale.
Set-up for the Book Sale coincides with National Volunteer week! So, please consider Volunteering to help the Friends! A Volunteer Sign-up sheet is available at the Front Desk of the Library. You may also contact Book Sales Chair Dee Gormley.
The Friends need Volunteers for three tasks during the Book Sale (all times are “come when you can”):
Book Sale Set-up
Wednesday April 14 12 p.m. – 4 p.m.: Table/Chair/Box Movers
Thursday April 15 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Table/Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Friday April 16 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Table/Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Monday April 19 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Table/Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Tuesday April 20 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Wednesday April 21 10:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.: Box Movers, Book Sorters, Book Shelvers
Sales Assistance Volunteers
Thursday April 22 – 24, three shifts: 9:00 a.m. -12:00 p.m., 12:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. – 6 p.m.: Cashiers, Door-Prize Table Assistant, Floor Assistance, and Re-Stocking Assistance.
Sunday April 25, one shift: 1:00 p.m. -4:00 p.m.: Cashiers, Door-Prize Table Assistant, Floor Assistance, and Re-Stocking Assistance.
Clean-up Assistance
The week after the sale, we will need help with Table Break-Down, Box Moving, Book Boxing, & General Clean-up .
Monday April 26, two shifts: 10:00 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1:00 p.m -4:00 p.m.
Tuesday April 27, two shifts: 10:00 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1:00 p.m -4:00 p.m.
Wednesday April 28, two shifts: 10:00 a.m.-1 p.m. and 1:00 p.m -4:00 p.m.
The Friends are also seeking Nomination of Volunteers to serve on the FoL Board of Directors for 2010-11.
Hands On - National Volunteers Week
Mark your calendar for the Friends’ Spring ’10 Book Sale!
Our most popular activity, the semi-annual book sale, will open to the public on April 24th and 25th.
The Members Only Sale begins April 22nd and 23rd for Members of the FoL.
Volunteers will be needed to help with the April Book Sale set-up and/or the Sale itself.
Set-up will begin on April 15th-16th and 19th-21st.
We welcome donations of books, which can be dropped off next to the Library check-out desk any day the Library is open.
Sales feature hard and soft cover books from popular fiction authors, non-fiction books, and childrens books as well as Music CDs, Video Tapes, DVDs, Books on Tape, and more!
2010 Spring Book Sale
There are only four Wagon Wednesday shopping days until Christmas!
The Library will be closed November 11-18 while new carpet is laid (largely funded through FoL contributions), and November 25 is the day before Thanksgiving, so November 4 will be the only date in November that Wagon Wednesday Book Sales will be held.
Sales will resume for three dates in December: Wednesday, December 2, 9, and 16.
Mark your calendar for the Friends’ Fall ’09 Book Sale!
Volunteers will be needed to help with the October Book Sale set-up and/or the Sale itself.
Set-up will begin on Wednesday, October 7th, and will continue on the 8th, 9th, 12th, 13th, and 14th.
The Members Only Sale begins October 15th & 16th for members of the FoL.
Our most popular activity, the semi-annual book sale, opens to the public on October 17th & 18th.
Sales feature hard and soft cover books from popular fiction authors, non-fiction books, and childrens books as well as Music CDs, Video Tapes, DVDs, Books on Tape, and more!
FoL Fall '09 Semi-annual Book Sale
We are in need of Wagon Wednesday helpers for the Wagon Wednesday mini Book Sales. Two people are needed each time, one to run the cart and one to assist. Wagon Wednesday sales run from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m., held in the Library foyer. New volunteers will be paired with experienced volunteers.
If you are available, please login to the Members Only area to place your name on a date, or email our Booksale Chair.
Two of our most popular activities are our semi-annual book sales in Spring and Fall and our ongoing sale in our in-Library Book Store.
Members receive early notification of and early shopping dates for the semi-annual book sales and discounts in our Book Store.
Members and non-members alike can shop our Book Store in the Library. The store features hard and soft cover books from popular fiction authors, non-fiction books, and children’s books as well as Music CDs, Video Tapes, DVDs, and Books on Tape.
FoL Book Store hours (weekly):
Monday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Tuesday 4 – 8 p.m.
Wednesday 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
Saturday Noon – 4 p.m.
Another ongoing sale is our self-service “paperback” (mass market trade) sale held every day the library is open. Paperback books are $.25 each or 5 for $1.
We always accept new donations, so you can drop your used books, videos, CDs, DVDs, etc., by any time the Library is open. Donations can be placed in the nook between the foyer and the check-out desk.
NOTICE: We CANNOT ACCEPT donations of ENCYLOPEDIAS or REFERENCE BOOKS published more than 10 years ago NOR LAW BOOKS of any type.
Mailing Address
Friends of the Library for Hood County
222 N. Travis St.
Granbury, TX 76048
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