Book Sales and Fundraisers

Our major fundraisers are the Used Book Sales. We now host a Spring Book Sale and a Fall Book Sale. Our community has generously donated many books that we help to recycle, with a small earnings to benefit our Library. These are excellent ways for us to help support literacy in our community with some very good buys on books.

Many volunteers support Batavia Public Library by sorting the donations throughout the year. We meet downstairs every Wednesday morning from 10:00 am – 12 Noon; every Saturday morning from 10:00 am – 12 Noon; and on the first Thursday evening from 7:00 – 9:00 pm. More volunteers help during the week of each sale.

Throughout the rest of the year, our Ongoing Book Sale is located opposite the Circulation Desk, during regular Library hours. During our Holiday Sale, the last two months of the year, we feature gift quality books, at a slightly higher price.

We also sell:

Book Lovers Calendars, published by Workman Publishing Co. These are of the page-a-day type.
Canvas Book Bags, with our Friends logo.
Plastic book bags - great on a rainy day. (Jointly sponsored with Batavia Public Library).
School supplies, in a vending machine in Youth Services department.

Our Book Research Group identifies donations of greater value than our usual material. Most of these are sold in our Specials Room during the Spring Book Sale. Also, look for our Friends of Batavia Public Library name as the seller on Amazon and eBay. We have a dedicated group of volunteers that research, list and describe, and ship these online orders.

We have a very nice variety of opportunities for volunteers to help. Please consider joining us.

Friends of the Batavia Public Library
10 S. Batavia Ave.
Batavia, IL 60510-2793
(630) 879-8220
friends@bataviapubliclibrary.org

Last revised 9/22/08