Friends of the Library and Wedsworth Library Book Sale

As Dory would say "I need to stop buying books. Oh!! Look, a Book Sale!!!"

Yep, Dory has found another great deal. The Friends of the Library and Wedsworth Library are having their annual book sale on Saturday October the 7th from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. for your first chance or Sunday the 8th from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. for your last chance to obtain the special item you have been hoping to squirrel away for this winter’s reading when the snows a swirling round your front door. Looks to be a long cold winter, you might wanna have a big supply on hand.

Don't forget, on Saturday you can enjoy homemade soup, cookies and bread while sorting through the fabulous Book Sale buys!  This rousing event raises money in support of our library.

In this day and age, the Library depends heavily on the money this sale brings in. Because the Census saw a drop of population for our service area, the Library lost money. We are one of two libraries in the state that saw reduced income because of the Census. We are paid for each and every resident in our service area. So, we lost money two ways. One - because of the drop of population and second, we lost money because we did not see the increase in population that we should have. Over ten years this results in a considerable sum, not only what we don’t see year to year.

Our expenses never decrease, so we are trying to do the same, if not more with less fixed income. Our only salvation and wiggle room is the donations we receive and the income from the book sale. This allows us to continue to serve our patrons with the best services they deserve.

Remember if you are willing to help with the book sale in any way shape or form, please give us a call. We can still use volunteers on Thursday October 5th and Friday October 6th at 9:00 a.m. to help display the books for the book sale. Then we need all hands-on deck on October 8th to box the books up once the sale is over. Looking forward to seeing you on October 7th and 8th. It will be a Jim Dandy of a sale!

Even if you don’t need a book, stop by and see us, have some soup or just visit with that long-lost neighbor you haven’t seen all summer or just meet some new!

On a further note – The Library will be hosting a program Saturday October 14 in front of the Library with solar eclipse glasses free to the public and access to a solar eclipse telescope. Our program will begin at 8:00 a.m. and run throughout the eclipse activity. We will have water and refreshments available. Feel free to stop by for a minute or for the whole shebang.