Spring Book Sale at Euclid Public Library
For libraries, it's a matter of arithmetic. If you add the new books, music, and movies that borrowers want to the old material the library already has, you soon find you have to subtract something to have room. Libraries have to get rid of as much as they take in.
The Friends of the Euclid Public Library has been running two sales a year for a few decades, now. They sell both donated items and the library's cancelled material–everything from dictionaries to DVDs, usually including quite a number of books for children and teens.
The Spring sale will start with a night for members of the Friends of the Library. It's Friday, April 25, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Members show their cards to get in; others may join at the door for $5.00. You don't have to live in Euclid, or even in Ohio, to be a member of the Friends.
The advantage of coming Friday is the larger selection. The disadvantages are the crowding and the fact that the library itself isn't open. And, of course, the $5.00.
Saturday, April 26, the sale is open to everyone at no charge. Doors open at 9 a.m. and stay open till 4 p.m. There's usually a very good selection of books, CDs, DVDs, etc., with much more room to browse and breathe. And the library is open, so patrons can combine shopping and research.
April 27, Sunday, is Bag Day from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. What is left after the first two days is sold at $2 per bag. (You don't bring your own bags; you buy them from the Friends and fill them up.)
The Friends work hard to put on the sale, and take great delight in seeing people walking out with maybe forty books for the cost of one new one at a bookstore. Except for one table of higher-priced specials, the prices really are unbelievably low. Hardback books are 50¢ each and paperbacks are 25¢. The most expensive items are DVDs, at $2 each; other audiovisual materials cost less.
Bonita Kale
Bonita Kale has lived in either Collinwood or Euclid for over 45 years, and she's beginning to feel settled in.