Krystal Smalley
ksmalley@wbcowqel.com
The Friends of the Bucyrus Public Library are getting into the Christmas spirit and hope all that hard work will pay off when summer rolls around.
The Friends of the Library are holding a three-day sale, which began Thursday and runs through Saturday. Money from the sales benefit a host of things for the local library.
“We appreciate the Friends of the Library,” said Bucyrus Public Library Director Brenda Crider. “They supplement our budget tremendously. They buy us things that we can’t normally buy within our budget because we’re operating a 1987 budget in 2015.”
In the past, the Friends of the Library have been able to purchase extra computers, laptops for computer training, the foyer benches, and books.
“They have just donated a myriad of things that we could not have bought on our own without their help,” Crider said. “So when you purchase a book at the Friends of the Library book sale, it really comes back to the library and it’s – as I said before – tremendous help to us.”
One of the biggest beneficiaries of the Friends’ book sales that occur throughout the year is summer reading programs.
Funds made during the sales throughout the year benefit all four of the reading clubs in their entirety – preschool, elementary, high school, and adult. The Friends buy all the incentives that readers in the clubs enjoy during the summer months, such as the prizes and programs.
“The library does not have to fund any of that at all. The Friends do all that for us and that’s due to the Friends of the Library book sale and also memberships,” Crider said.
The book sale starts back up at 11 a.m. today and runs through 5 p.m. On Saturday, it will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. On sale are gently-used hardbacks and paperbacks, fiction and non-fiction, for children, young adults and adults. The Friends are also featuring a special sale on Danielle Steel books after receiving an abundance of the author’s books.