The 2021 Give!Guide annual giving event officially kicked off on Wednesday, December 1st. The official giving window for this year is from December 1 – December 31. This is your chance to help out the Napa Library via a donation to the Friends of the Napa Library (FOL). All giving will be through an on-line portal again this year.  Click here to go directly to our page in the 2021 Give!Guide.

Donors to FOL will be eligible to win prizes – one to those who donate by December 5 and one to those who donate in mid-December.

Want to know where your donation goes?  We support many of the community programs at the Napa Library as well as many childrens programs.  Visit our post “Where the Money Goes” to learn of the programs you support with your donations.

We are honored to be one of the 55 local non-profit organizations participating in the 2021 Give!Guide. CanDo created this giving vehicle to provide Napa a single location to support the non-profit community.

VISIT THE GIVE!GUIDE TODAY

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To Celebrate and Recognize National Friends of the Library Week, The Friends of the Napa Library Presents our Annual FREE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN! Event

WHAT? Up to 8 free gently used books per child* and 2 boxes of gently used books per teacher*.

WHEN? Sunday, October 17, 2021 from 1pm – 4pm.

WHERE? Community Room at the Napa County Library at 580 Coombs St. in Napa.

WHY? To celebrate National Friends of the Library Week and because we have donated books that need a new home and don’t want to wait until our next Book Sale on December 8 – 19. So come and get them!

HOW? Thank you to the Napa County Library and our many, many volunteers who made this event happen.

*While quantities last

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On September 29, Mia Johnson, center, and her parents Jodi and Mike, delivered bags of donated books to the Napa Library – Friends of the Napa Library sorting center. The books in turn will be sold by the Friends as part of our book sales that benefit the Napa County Library. Mia contacted us as we were the closest Friends of the Library group that could turn her donated books into cash for the literacy programs.

Mia said this is her first delivery as she continues to gather books from family, friends, neighbors and fellow students to fulfill her Service Learning Credit.

A student at Buckingham Charter School in Vacaville and a resident of Fairfield, Mia plans to attend Solano Community College and is currently considering her future academic path. Mia’s mother, Jodi, hopes she pursues something that showcases her excellent writing skills. An avid reader, Mia enjoys historical fiction and mysteries. She used the recent COVID pandemic remote studies to indulge her love of books and to read over 50 while studying at home.

THANK YOU MIA FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND GENEROUS DONATION!

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WE’RE BACK WITH A HUGE SELECTION TO SELL!

Join us in the COMMUNITY ROOM AT THE LIBRARY.  Available are all categories of books, large selection of DVD’s and CD’s and many Special Priced treasures.

Sale Dates and Times

Saturday, September 18, 2021 10am-5pm   MEMBERS DAY
Sunday, September 19,2021 1pm – 4pm
Monday, September 20, 2021 10am – 7pm
Tuesday, September 21, 2021 10am – 7pm
Wednesday, September 22, 2021 10am – 7pm   HALF PRICE DAY
Thursday, September 23, 2021 10am – 7 pm  BAG DAY

MEMBERS DAY – you must be a current member of the Friends of the Library to shop on Saturday.
HALF PRICED DAY – Everything is 1/2 its original price
BAG DAY – $5 for each bag you can fill.

We will be following any and all COVID protocols required by Napa County and the Napa County Library.

WE CAN’T WAIT TO SEE YOU!                                      

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HOW MANY WAYS CAN WE SAY THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE SUPPORT WE HAVE RECEIVED IN THIS PAST YEAR?

The pandemic affected most if not every part of our lives. The main source of the funds we raise to support and sponsor programs at the Napa Library are the quarterly book sales we hold at the library as well as the Lobby Book Sales. Because the library was closed, we were not able to hold our sales in 2020 nor could anyone shop at the Lobby Book Sale.

While we could not hold our regular sales, the book, CD and DVD donations from the public kept coming in. We think that donors had time at home and decided to let go of many of their books, music and movies. And we were the recipients of these great purges! Boxes of books and media piled everywhere. We put our thinking caps on and with the help of the Napa Library we held two “Backdoor By the Box Book Sales”. Shoppers appeared at our back door and purchased boxes of books by category. It was like opening a Holiday or Birthday present – surprises inside!

Because of the continued generosity of our book and media donors, volunteers who were able to continue to process the incoming donations and buyers who continued to show up and purchase our inventory, we were able to honor some of our commitments to the Library programs that count on us to succeed and serve all of our library patrons.

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