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, and  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.

The Licia & Mason Beekley Community Library BookFriends will hold its 15th Annual Used Book Sale in June  2013.

All proceeds benefit programs at The Licia & Mason Beekley Community Library.

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
• 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!

• 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!!]
• Holiday Marketplace (early December): 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

• Children's programming  - assisting the Library staff with special events
  
• 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.

Click here to open the membership application for printing: Membership Form

Purchase a Custom-Engraved Brick & Create a Lasting Memory
Each brick is 8” by 4” and offers 2 lines of engraving. Completed, engraved bricks are being placed in a special Community Pathway at New Hartford’s Beekley Community Library.
Donation price is $50.00 per brick.
For ordering information, please contact Denise Devins at 379-8738, or stop in at the Library for a form. Orders placed now will be installed in 2013.
BookFriends have come together to sponsor this event to directly benefit the Library. Proceeds will be used to purchase books, provide programs and more.