Sale Days and Parking during Sale Days – October 22-25

We need many volunteers for the 4 days of the sale weekend to work inside the sale site or outside as Parking Attendants.

Sale Days volunteers working inside the sale site do Checkout (Tally and Cash), act as Checkout Line, Door and Table Monitors, and bring out books from Overflow to replenish tables.

Sale Days Volunteer Training Days October 13-17
Sale Days volunteers are required to attend a training session. This is important because we make changes to the layout of the site and to procedures based on feedback from the Customer and Volunteer Surveys.

While you should sign up for only one task per shift, we encourage you to sign up for several shifts (and several tasks if you like) over the course of the sale. Volunteers must be physically capable of doing the tasks they sign up for. In addition, Checkout volunteers must have the mathematical ability to perform their tasks.

Parking Attendants, working under the supervision of the Parking Coordinator, assist customers to find a place to park their car. This important role gives customers their first impression of the book sale. A safety vest and flashlight are supplied. Parking Attendants will be trained by the Parking Coordinator and assigned a location to monitor.

To read a description of Sale Days tasks from the 2026 Sale Days Volunteer Training Manual, please click here. 

To volunteer for Sale Days and Parking Tasks, click the SignUp button, below, and follow the instructions on the Signup website.

For further information, please contact Lynn Allen, Sale Days Coordinator, at saledays@fgpl.ca

It ain’t over til it’s over!

We need plenty of strong (and some not-so strong) people to help us clean up the book sale site. There are a whole variety of tasks: tables, chairs and other book sale paraphernalia must be prepared for transport, the space will need cleaning and the left-over books and media must be packed up. Once again we will be using easy-to-fill 4ft square crates.

There will be morning, afternoon, and evening shifts, so whatever your schedule we hope you can find time to help in some capacity. Moving tables, breaking down cardboard, or packing crates is as good as a trip to the gym and possibly more fun. Join the Post Sale clean-up crew for a different kind of work-out!

There is no mandatory training session. Volunteers will receive task-related instructions as needed. Shifts are three hours long with breaks whenever necessary.

The SignUp for the Post Sale volunteer schedule is available by clicking on the button, and then following directions on the SignUp website.

 For more information, please contact Nancy, Post Sale Coordinator at postsale@fgpl.ca.