Book sales and bookstore

The Friends raised money by selling donated books: in 1977 volunteers sold nearly one thousand books at one sale for more than $200, and the March 1997 sale raised $2,825.45. In March 1983 they added year-round honor-system sales in two bookcases Joan Greenwald donated. From February 2000 the Friends kept sale books at the Bard Street warehouse, and by 2006 shoppers browsed a Bard Street bookstore. On September 20, 2010 a special meeting replaced four large annual sales with monthly third-Saturday sales. The board put bookstore relocation on its agenda in January 2013, and in July 2016 the police assessed city-owned facilities as possible sites.

Drawn from: Friends raise more than $200 at book sale — article and photograph; Spring sale, Belasco reading program and Internet access; March newsletter introducing year-round library book sales; Friends explain the move to the Bard Street warehouse; Shoppers inside the Bard Street bookstore; Special meeting votes to disband California Collection; January board meeting agenda; Police assessment of possible bookstore relocation sites.