Book Sale Floor Plan and Rules

Welcome to the largest book sale in Kendall County - Friends of the Boerne Public Library March Book Sale!

We have created a few rules to make the book sale experience pleasant for all, but mostly because the opening can resemble a black Friday stampede.

• Please mind your manners like your mother taught you. Anyone who fights, hoards books, shoves, pushes, scoops tables or exhibits any other boorish behavior that brings us close to tears will be expelled.
• We love courteous and polite book dealers. Please scan as you go at the tables only.
• Please supervise your children. Unattended children will be fed sugar, given a puppy, and shipped off with the excess books at the end of the sale.
• Please show your receipt as you exit the building.
• Please don't sit on the floor. The building can get very crowded at times and someone may fall over you.
• Please replace books you do not want on the table they came from.
• Please do not open the boxes under the tables. I guarantee you there are no million dollar books under there.
• Cash and check are accepted. No credit cards. Who do you think we are? Wal Mart.
• Boxes placed in the holding area are considered sold. Please do not sort through books in the Holding Area.
• Sunday is $5.00 bag day. We provide the bag. If you have purchased a book bag from the friends at a prior book sale, this will be honored. You may fill your bag with any books and there are no limits to the number of books you may buy.

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See You At The Book Sale!

March 2-4

FEBRUARY 2012

Come one, come all!!!! 

Come share you love of books by sharing your time at the upcoming 30th Annual Friends of Boerne Library Book Sale!  We need volunteers to serve as:

• Greeters to welcome customers, hand out maps, answer general questions.
• Cashiers (Regular, Express, Roving) to tally sales and handle money.
• A Head Cashier to collect money from Regular and Roving cashiers and make change.
• Big Bucks Book Dealer Cashiers to tally sales and handle money.
• Raffle/Membership table helpers to sell raffle tickets, Friends memberships and gift certificates.
• Exit Checkers to verify that items have been paid for.
• Holding Area Attendees  store books for shoppers  and monitor the 'go back' table.
• Table Monitors to put 'go back' books back on tables, keep tables organized, and stock tables.
• An Empty Box organizer to stack empty boxes on the stage.
• Refreshment volunteers to bring snacks for volunteers during the week.

MARCH BOOK SALE 

SET UP

Monday Feb 27  thru Wednesday Feb 29:   Volunteers needed 8:00 until.....??
Thursday Mar 1: 8:00 until noon

BOOK SALE

Friday Mar 2:  11:00-2:00 and 2:00-5:00
Saturday Mar 3: 9:00-noon; noon-3:00; 3:00-5:00
Sunday Mar 4: 10:00-1:00; 1:00-4:00


TAKE DOWN
Monday Mar 5:  8:00 Until...?????


As a Friend of the Boerne Public Library, we hope you'll join us by showing your volunteer spirit! Sign up now to help us with our signature event!

  

Sign up sheets are at the library or you can email jeumberger@yahoo.com or clp1958@gvtc.com for more information.

Our fund raising goal at this year's book sale is $30,000, to commemorate the Friends' 30th anniversary. To reach this goal, we are selling table sponsorships!   We are reaching out to local businesses and individuals, asking everyone to give $100 to sponsor a table (or two or three!).  Would you like to sponsor a table?  For just $100, you can join the ranks of Friends' book sale supporters!!

When you sponsor a table your name will appear on an 8.5 x 11 sign and your name, or who you gave in honor of, will be announced over the PA system at the event four times a day over the three day period.

INTERESTED: Contact Judith Umberger at jeumberger@yahoo.com to arrange for your sponsorship. ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

Our fabulous NEW building is ready!  We will be open the first Wednesday of every month from 9:00 until noon. Come browse through lots of gently used books at bargain prices and enjoy some refreshments!  Buy local and support the PHPL!

     

 NOTES

• Our next meeting is Friday, February 3 at 10:30 in the library.  Everyone is welcome. 
• We need boxes for packing books for the March sale. Any sturdy boxes you can donate would be appreciated.  If you're a Costco member, please get them in the back by the coffee or up front by the tobacco products. In addition, there are boxes with handles on the side that would be useful in the holding area.  So if you're making a shopping trip to Costco, please try to remember the Friends and pick up some boxes!  Thank you!

JOIN THE FRIENDS OF THE BOERNE LIBRARY

RESISTANCE IS FUTILE

It's Almost Empty

Thanks Bob Vollmer for making the sign!

The Adios Annex sale on January 14 was a great success!  We made a little over $600.00 which will provide many needed extras for the PHPL.

 At 9:00 AM the doors opened and in came the 30 or so shoppers looking for a great deal! 

Dani greeting our patrons!

 Quickly items began to sell and soon it was-

Going!

Bill Eichman and son doing some heavy lifting!

 

Going!

Karen Jackson loading up boxes of records.

GONE!

Thanks everyone for helping to make it such a great day!

Time To Celebrate

CELEBRATE

WITH THE FRIENDS OF THE BOERNE PUBLIC LIBRARY

The Friends of the Boerne Public Library is having a celebration and we want you to be a part of it!  Join us and thousands of book lovers as we mark our 30th year at the county's largest book sale.  By sponsoring a table for $100, you will share your love of reading in our community.

When you sponsor a table your name will appear on an 8.5 x 11 sign and your name, or who you gave in honor of, will be announced over the PA system at the event four times a day over the three day period.

INTERESTED:  Contact Judith Umberger at jeumberger@yahoo.com to arrange for your sponsorship.  ALL CONTRIBUTIONS ARE TAX DEDUCTIBLE.

ADIOS ANNEX SALE!

The Adios Annex Sale is Saturday January 14, 2012 from 9:00 until noon.  Spread the word...everything must go!  Make an offer we can't refuse!  Here's a sample of what we have to sell and a few pictures.  Hope to see you there!

• Book cases - variety of sizes and materials $15 to $20
• Large brown tables $15
• VHS - $1.00 for a Walmart bag full
• Albums  $.50 per record
• Magazine racks $5/piece
• Old Desk  - $195.00
• Microwave - $20
• Copier - $15
• Fans - $5 to $10
• Various plastic containers - $2/piece
• Paperback racks - $10
• Wood and metal shelving
• Plastic 'milk' crates - perfect for storing records, toys, tools.

$15.00 each section

$10.00 each section

$15.00  each

$15.00 each

A whole room of records! $.50 per record

Boxes and boxes of VHS!  $1.00 for a Walmart bag full (about 20).

A beautiful old, wooden desk.  Perfect for a child's room, antique store, small business, etc. 

$195.00