Dear book sale volunteers,
In just two months, many helping hands from the Friends assisted the Foster Library staff, handling thousands of books and culling from the Foster collection and the Wright Library collection. The culminating book sale was a grand success thanks to the tireless tenacity of all involved.
Our dedicated and expert crew from the warehouse, Alberta Word, Merle Oberg, Dottie Gragg, Debra Rennick, Thelma Piercy, Diane Powers and Jane Anderson, personally scrutinized, decommissioned, processed and boxed roughly 10,000 titles from the Wright Library collection and excess from the children’s collection while Colleen, Teddy, Debbie and Marianne and Bill Coffey hand selected special books for sale at the bookstore and online. Thank you also to Woody Bretz for your trips to the warehouse to pick up supplies.
Thank you to Don Belless for delivering our tables from and back to the warehouse and to table wranglers Peter Lorito and Peter Thomson for loading and unloading and to Steven and Allan at Foster Library to help unload at the Topping Room.
Thank you to the Friday morning set up crew, Alberta, Thelma, Marianne and Bill Coffey, Joanne Fields, Keith Gordon, Gary Stephens and Merle Oberg. And to all the muscle behind moving the thousands of pounds of books out of the basement; Peter Lorito, Reuben and Juan, from City Corps, Steven, Allan and Michael Williams, Thelma’s grandson.
Saturday morning started with a group of 2 dozen waiting for the doors to open. Excitement was building as passers by wondered what big event was going on at the library. By mid day more books were obtained from the basement by a crew led by Alberta and the hard working student volunteers.
Once again we had an outstanding group of student volunteers keeping the tables neat, securing the back door and acting as friendly ambassadors. Many thanks and high praise goes to this fantastic group of future Friends volunteers and Board members! By first name only they are; Kylah, Maddy, Amelia, Roger, Xander, Lorena, Itzel, Elizabeth, Halina, Valeria, David, Peter, Jenny, Joselin and Suvee on Saturday. And on Sunday; Jason N., Roger, Amelia, Suvee, Jenny, Joselin, Tatum, Lorena, Elizabeth, Itzel, Valeria, and Jason B.
Thank you to those who packed up all the unsold books on Sunday. Thank you Peter Lorito for hauling 46 boxes of books to the loading dock for pick up by Better World Books.
While the main objective of this project was to refresh the collection, we were also able to raise $1041 for the libraries and an awareness of San Buenaventura Friends of the Library. I hope it was a rewarding experience for all.
With gratitude,
Kathy Thomson, President, San Buenaventura Friends of the Library