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Friends of the Library Book Sale starts Saturday

T-R PHOTO BY SARA JORDAN-HEINTZ Wednesday afternoon, volunteers helped set up for the annual Friends of the Library Book Sale inside the Marshalltown Public Library’s Community Meeting Room B. On Saturday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sunday from 1-4 p.m., thousands of books will be for sale. In addition, DVDs, VHS tapes, puzzles and other media will be offered. Here Assistant Librarian Sandy Gowdy (right) and volunteer and former library staff member Debbie Thompson (left) sort through the donated books.

This week, staff and volunteers at the Marshalltown Public Library have spent hours sorting through boxes and sacks of donated books in preparation for its annual Friends of the Library Book Sale. Table after table in its Community Meeting Room B are bursting with books in every genre imaginable, for perusal Saturday, Feb. 25 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m., and Sunday, Feb. 26 from 1-4 p.m.

Books sold on Saturday will go for one dollar for hardcover books and trade paperbacks, and 25 cents for mass market paperbacks. DVDs, VHS tapes, puzzles and other media will also be for sale. On Sunday, the library will have a bag sale — an entire grocery bag of books will sell for one dollar.

“We have thousands of books,” said Assistant Librarian Sandy Gowdy. “They are mostly donations and some books we remove from the library’s collection.”

The sale is being sponsored by the Friends of the Marshalltown Public Library, a non-profit corporation founded in 1997. Its mission is to help support and promote all the library has to offer.

Cookbooks, romance novels, westerns, biographies, fiction, non-fiction, science, history, how-to books and children’s books will all be present.

“Proceeds from the book sale will go to the Friends of the Marshalltown Public Library who then allow us to use the funds to buy materials for the library,” Gowdy said.

Donations are being accepted now until Friday. To learn more, call the library at 641-754-5738, ext. 2.

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