An
Introduction to BookFriends:
BookFriends is the Beekley
Community
Library’s “community connection.”
Founded in the summer of 1998, BookFriends
is made up of local
volunteers
who are dedicated to
supporting the Library by:
- developing
programs and activities that promote a strong, positive
relationship
between the Community and the Library
- raising
funds to benefit the Library
- providing support
services for the operation and maintenance of
the Library.
How can YOU
help?
Join BookFriends and the 80+ other
Library volunteers! It’s free!!!!
Membership forms are at the
Front Desk in the Library and are accessible
on this Website.
Let us know in what way you would like
to support the Library for the year and how we can contact you to do so!
If you
are already a member, renew
your
membership annually,
so that we know your
current Library-volunteer interests,
and
contact information.
Once a
member, you can help with
- BookFriends activities and
“library-awareness” events. Examples:
- New Hartford Day (September)
Assisting the Library Staff and Library Board Members by helping with
set-up, activity, and clean-up needs for this wonderful, all-town
event at Brodie Park
- New Hartford Festival of Arts (October) Assisting
with the Library Staff’s art/craft project at this great community event
- Light New Hartford (early December)
Helping to decorate the Library and to serve refreshments
- Developing new ideas for connecting the Community with the
Library and the Library with the Community!
- BookFriends fundraising
activities. Examples:
- Used Book Sale (June)
Organizing and selling items for our
biggest
fundraising event of the year. Volunteers are needed for sorting
(January
to June), set-up and “take-down,” [sale-item] transportation, and
sales.
- Bake Sale (June)
Baking for, setting up, and selling Baked Items at the
Used Book Sale [Yum!!]
- Music Under the Tent (June)
Planning, publicizing, selling tickets for, and assisting
with the set-up/take-down of New Hartford’s best musical event of the
year. Same day as the Used Book Sale…under the same
tent…but in the evening, under the stars!
- Holiday Marketplace (early November)
Partnering with the New Hartford Business Council, assisting with
set-up of auction tables and items, selling silent auction tickets,
serving refreshments provided by the Business Council
- Developing new ideas for great fundraising events and
activities to benefit the Library
- BookFriends supportive services
to the staff, Library events, and Library-building/facility needs.
Examples:
- Story-Hour
presentations -
assisting the Library staff with Story Hour presentations
- Book deliveries
– delivering books to town residents who are unable to access the
Library
- Shelf-reading and/or looking for Overdue
books – assisting with keeping the Library’s shelves in good order;
and/or periodically assisting the Library staff by screening the
shelves in search of books that are listed as “overdue,” but which may
have found their way back on the shelves without being checked in.
- Garden Committee -
We are so blessed to have such beautiful gardens at our
Library! Thanks to Evelyn Betz and her
committee who help to keep our “landscape” so well-known!
- Hospitality Committee –Baked goods, wine,
and cheese…this is what makes for a fun Library or BookFriends event for everyone! We need volunteers to make, serve, and clean
up!
- Publicity Committee – Help
publicize BookFriends events by
designing/creating posters, signs, flyers, and other advertising tools!
Bring your
Used Books,
CD’s, DVD’s, Video’s, Children’s games, etc.* directly to the Library
so that
they
can be sold at our Used Book Sale.
* Hardcover books,
paperbacks, DVD’s,
puzzles, games, and audio/video items are welcome.
We cannot accept items in poor condition
(yellowed pages, broken spines, mold/mildew),
and cannot accept magazines,
encyclopedias, or textbooks.
BookFriends
Happenings!
- Sunday,
December 2, Light New Hartford, starts in the
center of town at 5:30.
Then, come up to the Library for cider, cookies and warmth with your
neighbors and friends
- Wednesday, Dec. 12, author,
Terry Walker, discussing her informative book, Clean
Food, at 7:00 in the Library
BookFriends
Board: Current members of
the BookFriends Board are
- Barbara
Sterrett, Chair 397-1697
bcsterrett@charter.net
- Michael Brauer
- Denise Devins
- Muriel DiGiro
- Margot Krimmel
- Sue Krohner
- Nancy Linton
- Martha Steenburgh
- Lee Tangarone
- Kathy Worley
Please
contact us (personally or leave a note for us in the Library) if you
have ideas
for new fundraisers, activities, or events. (Please leave your name, phone number
and/or email
address so that someone could inquire about the details of your
suggestion(s)!)
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