Hold That Thought . . Er . . Book!

We love your donations.  We can't do what we do without your donations.  But at this point, just before the sale (we start with Friends Night April 21), we can't take in any more of your donations!  Our shed is full!

DONATIONS CLOSED

APRIL 1 - MAY 1

While you wait for us to re-open, you can see our donations guideline here.  Feel free to print a copy and use it to evaluate what you want to bring us!  It may make your 'pending' stack shorter!

If you just can't wait, or you have items that do not fit our donation criteria, please feel free to donate with another Friends group or charity!

BRING 'EM IN!

It's officially...(drum roll, please)

OPEN DONATION TIME

again. Thank you SO MUCH for allowing our sorters to take a break over the holidays.

Now you may return to your regularly scheduled donations...we need them...we want them...we value them!

And, in case you've forgotten what our guidelines are, please feel free to click here to access our donation brochure!

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Hold That Thought . . . Er . . . Book

In order that our elves can attend to their own homes for the holiday season, we're closing our donations bin for a short time. Please hold on to those books and renew donations in January. We LOVE your donations, but just need a little breathing room! Thank you!

BOOK DONATIONS CLOSED

DECEMBER 13-JANUARY 5

As a reminder, when the donations bin IS open, we have a few guidelines we ask you to follow so that we can concentrate our energy on sorting and maintaining the very best of donations for our book sales.

For all the specifics on how to donate books, we have developed a brochure. You can get your own copy here.

Thank you!

Whole Foods Loves Your Library!

Yesterday, out of the blue, we received an e-mail from our local Whole Foods Market. It said:

I am pleased to let you know that we have selected “The Friends of Reston Library” to be a recipient in this quarter’s “Nickels for Non-Profits” donation.

Each quarter we designate two local non-profits and place a donation box at the front of the store. Customers usually receive a nickel for bringing their own reusable grocery bag but we give them the option of taking a wooden nickel instead and dropping it in the box to aid these charities. We will have “The Friends of Reston Library” on this box for at least the next 90 days and then donate the amount given by customers.

Please encourage anyone who comes to shop at our store to take the bag redemption in the form of a wooden nickel and drop it in your slot!

So now you know what to do!

1. Shop Whole Foods

2. Take your reusable bag in and pick up a wooden nickel

3. Drop it in the Friends box!

Thank you to Whole Foods (who also support us during our Semi-Annual Book Sales) and thank you to our patrons and supporters!

The store is located at Plaza America, 11660 Plaza America Dr., Reston. For more info, click here.

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We Want Your Used Books!

Yesterday the donations bin re-opened its big mouth! Think of it as the Friends of Reston Regional Library helping you with Spring Cleaning. With all this rain continuing through the weekend, you won't be going to soccer or baseball games. Instead, harvest your books and make shelf space at home! Then next week sometime when you're out anyway, drop them in the donation bin in the lobby. You can get a tax receipt from the circulation desk if you'd like one. (It is a good idea to count how many paperbacks and how many hardbacks you have BEFORE you put them into the bin).

Here are our donation guidelines:

We are happy to accept

• Up to two boxes of books per household per day
• DVDs, CDs, Books-on-tape/disc
• Encyclopedias published within the last 10 years or before 1970
• Only current magazines (last three months)
  The exceptions are:
  Any date for Architectural Digest, andSmithsonian
  Any date for food and recipe periodicals (Gourmet, Food & Wine, Martha Stewart,Southern Living, etc.)
  No National Geographic magazines although we will accept maps pulled from them
• Computer books published within last five years
• Textbooks published within last 10 years
• No videos except: Travel, Educational, Sets.

We no longer accept phonograph records.

All contributions are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

Your donations make the ultimate recycling system work -- so bring 'em in! 

THANK YOU!

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The Cup Runneth Over!

As of yesterday, April 8, book donations are CLOSED. We are stuffed to the gills with great books, poised for the sale. We will be happy to take donations again beginning on May 7.

If you just have to get rid of your books, please contact one of the other libraries in the FCPL system. The contact information for the branches is here.

See you soon at the sale!

SPRING 2009 SEMI-ANNUAL USED BOOK SALE

FRIENDS NIGHT - THURSDAY, APRIL 23, 6-8:30 P.M.

GENERAL PUBLIC

Friday, April 24, 10-5; Saturday April 25, 10-4:30;

 Sunday April 26, 12-3:30

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