If you have been cleaning out your bookshelves and have bags or boxes full of books in your car or kitchen, you had better head for one of the Friends of the Wake Forest Library donation sites in the next few days.
Friends board members will make their final collection rounds on Monday, April 20, and will pick up the green donation bins at the same time. In the next two weeks they will sort the used books and label their boxes to make setting up for the sale easier.
The sale will be from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Saturday, May 2, in the Ledford Center at 120 North Wingate Street on the Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary campus. Members of the Friends are invited to begin shopping at 8 a.m. for the best selection. If you are not a member, you may join at the door; memberships begin at $5.
The Friends cannot accept credit cards; the sale is cash or checks only.
The Friends use the money from the sale to provide materials and extra activities at the Wake Forest Library on East Holding Avenue that the county-wide library system does not fund. They are also building a fund to use to add to the library when it is completely renovated and nearly doubled in size at a date the library system has not yet set.
The collection bins are in handy sites around town. Please donate recently published hardcover and paperback books in good condition as well as CDs and DVDs that are in playable and good condition are also welcome. The Friends cannot accept textbooks and magazines.
The collection sites are:
- Walgreens on Rogers Road
- Town & Country Hardware in Gateway Commons
- Northern Wake Senior Center on East Holding Avenue
- The Wake Forest Weekly on East Owen Avenue
- NC General Store on South White Street
- Wake Forest Coffee Company on South White Street
- The Cotton Company on South White Street
- Wake Forest Farmers Market in Renaissance Plaza (Saturday mornings only)
- O2 Fitness on South Main Street
- Wake Tire and Service on South Main Street
- North Wake Mini Storage on Ligon Mill Road
- Flaherty Park Community Center
- State Employees Credit Union on Jenkins Road
- Lowe’s Foods on Capital Boulevard
The friends welcome volunteers to help with collecting, sorting and arranging the donations and in packing up what is left.
Please do not take your book donations to the Wake Forest Library. The staff cannot accept donations because of space and traffic considerations.
For more information about volunteering for, donating to, or attending the annual used book sale, go to http://www.friendswakeforestlibrary.org or email info@friendswakeforestlibrary.org
