Medway & Millis April 2019

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Friends of the Millis Library Spring Book Sale
The Friends of the Millis Public
Library will hold its Annual Spring
Book Sale on Saturday, April 27
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Roche
Bros. Community Room. The library
is located on 961 Main St.
(Rt.109) in Millis. Open to the
public and all are welcome. The
books are sorted extremely well by
category to make for easy shopping.
Our customers always tell us
that we have the most organized
book sale in the area.
A large selection of adult and
young adult fiction, non-fiction
and children’s books in hardcover
and paperback will be on
sale, plus CDs, DVDs and special
finds and collections! Prices start
at 25 cents.
There will also be a Friends
of the Library preview and sale
for current members being held
on Friday, April 26 from 6-8 p.m.
New membership applications
will be accepted that night.
On Sunday, April 28 from 1
to 3 p.m. there will be a special
sale. Each bag of books, etc. will
cost $5 on that day. Bags will be
provided.
Proceeds support the purchase
of museum passes and programs
for the library. For more (508)
376-8282.
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Millis Friends of the Library
Encountering Damaged Donations
By J.D. O’Gara
Board books that are chewed
and eaten. A bag of books covered
in dust and dirt. Books with
water stains, mold—and worse,
rotting from red rot on the inside.
Some with no covers. Some without
spines. Coloring books that
have been colored in, books with
bugs, and sticker books missing
the stickers.
Um… The Friends of the
Millis Public Library are going
to pass, thanks.
“It’s just gross. You would
be surprised. If there’s just one
sticker missing, that’s one thing,”
says Sandra Scott, President of
the Friends of the Millis Public
Library, who appreciates the
thoughtful book donations from
many patrons. Donations of
books that are falling apart or can’t
be sold for some reason, however,
are a little less than thoughtful.
They actually end up a burden to
the library, that will then need to
unload the junk. Sometimes one
man’s trash is best put in the trash,
not donated.
“We actually sell our books
at a decent price to make some
money to pay for the stuff the
friends pay for that is not covered
in the library budget,” says Scott.
“That’s why the book sale is really
important as a fundraiser, but
we can’t charge if people are giving
us (junk).”
In fact, the Friends of the
Millis Public Library have been
asked by other Friends groups
how their sale is so successful,
and the answer is “because we
sort that stuff out. People will
come to the sale and stay longer
and actually buy more, because
they realize it’s not like your average
garage sale.”
Scott says the Friends stop
taking book donations the week
before the book sale, in order
to take the time to carefully go
through the donations (so drop
that bag of nice book donations
by sooner rather than later!).
How does your donation rate?
Scott says the answer is simple.
“We really appreciate people
donating to the sale, and coming
– this really supports the museum
passes, a lot of the children’s programming,
the adult programming
and the music,” says Scott,
“but before you donate, look at
everything and ask, would you
buy this?”
The Friends of the Millis Library appreciate your book donations to
their book sale, which supports programs at the Millis Library. Some,
however, can’t be sold, so keep these ones at home.