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Public libraries depend on the support of governments, corporations, foundations and individuals to help them provide free services to their patrons at their buildings and on the Internet.

 

 

Some Ways You Can Contribute to Your Library

 

  • Donate time, money and expertise to your library
  • Nominate your library as a community, school or corporate project for the year
  • Buy your library a subscription to a popular magazine
  • Honor a friend's or a relative's birthday with a book donation to the library
  • Donate a book or a shelf of books
  • Remember the library in your estate plans
  • Write a check to your library's Foundation or Friends organization
  • Give to the library through your company's matching program for charitable contributions
  • Consider a tax deductible gift to your library. 



















 

Be A Friend of Your Library

Join the Friends of the New Hanover County Public Library, an association of members and volunteers, who provide fundraising and other assistance to the library system

  • Donate your used books and audio/video items to our semiannual book sale
  • Volunteer to work at our spring or fall used book sale 
  • Offer your skills to help with our programs and fundraising events
  • Ask how you can become a member of our Board of Directors
  • Attend our Annual General Membership Meeting

Volunteer at Your Library
  • Offer a committed helping hand to your library's staff
  • Become a literacy or computer tutor
  • Shelve books or nurture plants
  • Present an adult program
  • Read stories to children or help with class visits
  • Mend materials or maintain local information or history files


Advocate for Your Library
  • Attend meetings of the New Hanover County Commissioners and urge support of the public library
  • Write letters to your county commissioners and state legislators on behalf of library funding
  • Write a letter to the editor of a local newspaper or call a local radio talk show and express your support of the library
  • Discuss your  library, its programs and its funding, with your friends, neighbors, relatives and co-workers
  • Speak up on behalf of the library at meetings of other community groups: PTO, Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis, League of Women Voters, and so on.  Invite a librarian to address your group on library services and needs
  • Participate in Library Legislative Day activities in Raleigh

SEMIANNUAL USED BOOK SALE TOTALS
 
 

 

Spring

Fall

Year

Total

1983

 

*$2,306

$2,306

$2,306

1984

$2,306

$3,400

$5,706

$8,012

1985

$2,100

$3,200

$5,300

$13,312

1986

$2,275

$2,439

$4,714

$18,026

1987

$3,600

$2,723

$6,323

$24,349

1988

$4,200

$3,520

$7,720

$32,069

1989

$3,557

$3,625

$7,182

$39,251

1990

$4,163

$3,388

$7,551

$46,802

1991

$2,800

$3,700

$6,500

$53,302

1992

$4,407

$3,464

$7,871

$61,173

1993

$5,200

$6,112

$11,312

$72,485

1994

$6,160

$5,300

$11,460

$83,945

1995

$5,100

$5,315

$10,415

$94,360

1996

$5,700

$8,131

$13,831

$108,191

1997

$8,831

$9,573

$18,404

$126,595

1998

$8,665

$9,254

$17,919

$144,514

1999

$11,254

$9,010

$20,264

$164,778

OTHER

$3,910

$500

$4,410

$169,188

2000

$12,265

$10,188

$22,453

$191,641

2001

$12,107

**$11,686

$23,793

$215,434

2002

$10,957

$10,019

$20,976

$236,410

2003

$10,543

$13,382

$23,925

$260,335

2004

$15,028

$21,098

$36,126

$296,461

2005

$25,182

$23,289

$48,471

$344,932

OTHER

 

 

$1,197

$346,129

2006

$28,585

$30,654

$59,239

$405,368

2007

$38,358

$44,314

$82,672

$488,040

2008

$48,495

$50,642

$99,137

$587,177

 

*First sale held at Main Library

 ** First sale held at Northeast Regional Library

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