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North Canton Friends of the Library

Books needed.  To keep our Friends' stock of books replenished for sales, the Friends need books.  If you have books - in excellent/gently used condition - that you would like to contribute, your donation would be deeply appreciated.  We welcome all categories except text books.  We especially need to replenish our stock of children's books.  If you have books to donate, please deliver them to the Patron Services Desk.  Thank you.

Purpose: To support the library by funding purchases that help assure that patrons of all ages will continue to enjoy the kind of experience they have come to expect in the North Canton Library which four times in recent years has been named the nation's best for serving areas with populations of 50,000 or fewer residents.

Examples of Friends purchases:

  • High-speed copier
  • Foul-weather floor mats
  • License enabling showing movies in the library
  • Tools for custodians
  • Furniture for children’s program room
  • Programs for adults, teens, children
  • Bookmarks and book bags
  • Outdoor book drop return bin
  • Books, DVDs, CDs

Principal fund-raising sources:

  • Two annual public book sales.  2010:  (during normal library hours)
    • August 21-22 - outdoor patio sale
    • September 30-October 3 - book sale
  • Friends Members-Only book sale. 2010: December 5
  • Proceeds from books sold daily in Friends Corner (adjacent library’s main entrance)

Book Sale
Shop the Friends big book sales and the Friends Corner every day

Friends membership dues: $10 annually per household (for those age 18 and older).  Please leave your dues – with your name, address, phone number, email address – at library’s circulation desk or mail to Friends of the Library, North Canton Public Library, 185 North Main St., North Canton, OH 44720

Membership benefits:

  • Access to annual Members-Only book sale
  • “First dibs” on set-up day for public book sales
  • Support a valued community asset – the library
  • Annual members social on June 10 - catering by Creative Catering (North Canton)
  • Annual members holiday luncheon in December
  • Receive membership booklet
  • Make new friends
  • Beginning in January 2009, the library newsletter, “Read All About It,” will be mailed only to members of Friends of the Library and Friends of Little Art Gallery

Friends meetings:  Held monthly – except June and July – on the second Thursday at  6:30 p.m. in the library’s conference room.

Questions? Phone Mary Lou Farbeann at 330-494-0581