Thank you! – The Bamco Group, Red Brick Cafe,
over 250 volunteers, and our faithful customers.
Click here for a list of this year’s Donors, Supporters, and Suppliers
To the recipients of this year’s Lifetime Memberships, Retiring Chief Librarian Steve Kraft, and Mary Mulholland, long-time executive member of the Friends.
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Thank you for attending this year’s
Friends of the Guelph Public Library
and to our excellent guest speakers,
Acting CEO Guelph Public Library, Dan Atkins,
and Campaign Advisory Committee member, Kathryn Elton
In case you missed it, the meeting agenda and annual reports are all posted here…..
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At a ceremony held on September 11 at the site of this year’s book sale, founding Friends of the GPL Chair Virginia Gillham and current Chair Ian Findlay presented a BIG CHEQUE for $1,000,000 to the Guelph Public Library (CEO Steve Kraft and Board Chair Randalin Ellery). The amount was raised through the efforts of the Friends at 14 previous sales stretching back to the first sale in 2007 that raised $8,200. On hand to witness the presentation current and former Friends members and book sale volunteers. Way to go!
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Donations will no longer be accepted for this year’s sale. If you didn’t make it and would like to try somewhere else contact Salvation Army, Bibles for Missions, Goodwill, or St. Vincent de Paul for their donation policies.
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We’re all cleaned up and ready to receive your donations starting Tuesday, July 18 -from 6-8pm. Come on down!
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You can start dropping off your book sale donations on Tuesday, July 18 from 6-8pm.
For the rest of the summer, we will receive donations dropped off at the front door of the sale site, 69 Huron St. on Tuesdays 6-8pm; Wednesday to Saturday from 10am-noon. Drop offs may not be done on Sundays or Mondays.
This is the ONLY location that will be receiving donations for the sale. Please note that the public library branches are unable to accept donations for the sale.
Please review this year’s guidelines on the website’s Book Sale Donations page before packing up your boxes.
With the sale scheduled a month earlier than usual, the last day to drop off donations will be early in September, so don’t delay!
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The Mayor, Guelph City Councillors, Library Board, Staff, and Friends of the Library take turns with the shovels at the official groundbreaking on June 20.
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Way to go Friends of the Guelph Public Library, winners of the 2023 Guelph Today Community Builders Award in the Arts category!
Read all about it in Guelph Today
Our thanks to Guelph Today, as well as to Guelph Medical Imaging for sponsoring the award this year, and to Anne MacKay and Steve Kraft for the video highlighting the work our volunteers have done to support the library in the community over the past 20 years. And are still doing today!
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Donations will be accepted starting Tuesday, July 18 – at the book sale site, 69 Huron St. on the following schedule:
Tuesdays – 6:00pm-8:00pm
Wednesdays to Saturdays – 10am-noon
Closed Sundays and Mondays – no drop offs, please!
Visit the Donations Page to see what we will and will not accept for the sale.
Donations will be accepted until early in September. Watch the website for the final drop off date, but please don’t delay.
With regret, donations will not be accepted at any library branch – please do not take them there!
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