Saturday’s BCL Friends Big Spring Festival of Books to offer bargains
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
Published: April 30, 2008
It’s here again, and on Saturday the Friends of Blanchard Community Library’s Big Spring Festival of Books will be a bargain hunter’s delight, especially for those watching their pennies.
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula Times
It’s here again, and on Saturday the Friends of Blanchard Community Library’s Big Spring Festival of Books will be a bargain hunter’s delight, especially for those watching their pennies. The May 3 sale will be held in the north parking of the library - located at 119 N. 8th St. - from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Not only will there be thousands of 50 cent hardcover and 25 cent paperback books to choose from - as well as Better Books $1 and up, the Silent Auction of hard-to-find rare tomes (the Friends make sure that such books are usually of historical and/or local interest) will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m.
Friends work year-round to prepare for the spring and fall book festivals, carefully placing books for sale into dozens of categories ranging from fiction to cookbooks. Fiction, biography, autobiography, history, mystery, romance, Westerns, how-to, travel, children’s, music, health, humor, art, drama, foreign language, computers, religion, gardening, government, hobbies, reference and self-help are among the categories of books on sale at ridiculously low prices, as well as CDs, videos, puzzles, magazines, records and collections.
In these times bargains are especially appreciated, said Chris Lemon of the Friends. “The Friends are really looking forward to the book sale, and with people watching their pennies more,” the deals offered are even better. And “From 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. everything is half off,” she noted.
The Friends donate the proceeds of all book sales to benefit Blanchard Community Library, over the years providing the exterior book drop off box, new books for the shelves, book carts, equipment, and special goodies such as the recent donation of the license and equipment to show movies at the library. The Friends of the Library are dedicated to the support, improvement and promotion of all library services for the benefit and enjoyment of the Santa Paula community.
Lemon said that the nonprofit Friends of the Library is “always looking for book-loving volunteers” to help sort books - culled from donations, estates and library shelves - and to ensure that the community library remains a vital part of the community.
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