Giant Used Book Sale Set For Loudoun County

LEESBURG, VA—For a lot of folks, one of life's simple summer pleasures is lounging on the beach immersed in a good book. Well, here's a great way to stock up on your reading material. It's the Loudoun Library Foundation's 30th annual Giant Used Book Sale.

It's set for June 21-23 at Smarts Mill Middle School, 850 North King Street. More than 90,000 books, DVDs and CDs will be for sale. Most items cost 50 cents to $2. Hours are 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and noon-4 p.m. Sunday.

(Exclusively for Loudoun Library Foundation members, there's a pre-sale 5-7 p.m. June 20, where there's a $100 limit and members can avoid the opening day crowd. Anyone can become a member that night for $35.)

"It takes a lot of people to pull this together," said Jean Zenowich, Vice President of LLF and leader of the sorting effort, in a statement. "We have a dedicated set of volunteers that have been working since the fall to stay on top of all the donations. We couldn't do this without them."

Added Drew Zenowich, President of LLF: "It is great to see all the returning faces as either customers or volunteers. There are people I have been seeing for years volunteering or coming to find a treasure or two during the sale. It is really a community event."

This year's sale is being dedicated to two long-term volunteers who died this year: Barbara Falkenstine and Mary Fishback.

Last year, sale had more than 8,000 attendees and raised more than $97,000 for the public libraries of Loudoun County. Since 1984 the LLF has raised more than $1.1 million.

About the Loudoun Library Foundation

The Loudoun Library Foundation, Inc. was founded in 1984 as an independent all-volunteer nonprofit, dedicated to supporting public libraries in Loudoun County. All proceeds and donations go back to the libraries through grants, many of which focus on new or unique ways to engage portions of the community with the public libraries in the county.