Friends Of The Southbury Public Library Are Accepting Donations

Press release from the Southbury Public Library:

1/3/2025

Friends’ Donation Center, located in the Southbury Plaza between Catalyst Gym and The Paper Store Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30-11:30am, and Wednesdays from 5-7pm.

The Friends of the Southbury Public Library are accepting donations for future book sales to raise funds for library programs and services to benefit the community. The Friends’ Donation Center is located at their new space, generously donated by Gatto Development Corporation, in the Southbury Plaza between Catalyst Gym and The Paper Store. The Center is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., and Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m.

Items accepted include gently-used hardcover, softcover, and paperback books in all genres, both fiction and nonfiction, for adults, teens, and children. The Friends also accept DVDs, music CDs, vinyl records, audiobooks on CD, jigsaw puzzles, and games. Donation receipts for tax purposes are available.

The Center will be closed through January 6, and will resume regular hours on January 7. The closing will give the Friends volunteers a much needed break, and will accommodate increased holiday traffic at the Plaza. If you're donating items to the Friends, we ask you not to leave items outside when the Donation Center is closed.

The floods of August 18-19, 2024, completely destroyed the entire Friends’ inventory of material collected in the past year from generous donors. The Friends are extremely grateful to all those in the community, the surrounding towns, and even out of state, who have so generously donated books and other materials. The success of past sales allows us to continue to fund almost all programs offered by the library.

For more information about the Friends of the Southbury Public Library, click here.

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