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Wednesday, June 28, 2017 The Nugget Newspaper, Sisters, Oregon
Library set for annual book sale
By Jim Anderson
Correspondent
Lynne Wood, the manager
of the Friends of the Sisters
Library used book store
known as The Book Corner,
sent a note out to her volun-
teer force: “FOSL’s yearly
book corner outdoor book
sale is being held on Saturday,
July 8 on quilt show weekend.
This is one of our BIGGEST
fundraisers and we will need
LOTS and LOTS of help!”
Little did Jean Wells know
when she and her crew put
together the Sisters Outdoor
Quilt Show that so many busi-
nesses and public institutions
would climb on the band-
wagon. Signs pop up all over
town that this-or-that service
will become available not
only quilt day — but “all quilt
week!”
Not to pass up the oppor-
tunity to breathe life into the
financial hopper for the Sisters
Library, Friends of the Sisters
Library took advantage of
having all the quilt people in
town and put on a book sale
that has generated much-
needed income that has been
added to what FOSL provides
for many of the Deschutes
Public Library’s needs.
And it’s not one-sided.
Many, many of the books that
quilt lovers go home with
from the sale are not just “used
books.” In many cases they are
rare and valuable books that
visitors to Sisters have been
looking for. It’s not uncom-
mon for the volunteers that
work the book sales to hear
such comments as: “Look,
Helen! I’ve been looking for
this book for over a year!”
And among the younger
generation the excitement of
finding a new (used) book can
be like suddenly re-discover-
ing an old toy.
Wendy Vermillion, one of
the solid volunteers that works
the Book Corner, said this
about used books: “Something
special about browsing
through used books is the
rather comforting feeling that
someone else has read, and
either valued or rejected, each
book!
“That fosters curiosity but
also makes the purchase more
personal than acquiring a new
book, because it connects us
with someone else! Someone
is sharing a piece of his/her
life with us.”
Which goes to the very
heart of the Book Corner:
It would be impossible to
run such a valuable money-
raising operation without the
hundreds of Sisters Country
residents that bring their used
books to the library.
I’d say our little
volunteer project goes a
long way toward helping
the library buy books
and fund programs...
— Lynne Wood
Wood and her never-fail
volunteers are offering all
books 10 years old and newer,
excluding religious subjects,
dictionaries, and encyclope-
dias. They don’t keep travel
books and hiking books older
than five years or so, as they
become outdated quickly.
Books that are in good con-
dition older than 10 years go
in large storage boxes during
the year so The Book Corner
will have a really varied selec-
tion for sales during the rest of
the year. They keep all chil-
dren’s books, sometimes even
if they’re “used” a little more
than they like.
Ideally, the Book Corner
staff would like to have the
generous donors sort through
the books before they give
them to FOSL. But who’s
going to look a gift horse in
the mouth? Sure, it takes more
time for the busy volunteers
to sort, but in amongst what
might appear as “unwanted”
books, there are often
treasures.
When the dust settled last
year, and Wood counted all the
income, this is what she came
up with: “The annual quilt day
sale is a major fundraiser for
the local library. Last year we
brought in $1,499 during the
sale, and $288 from the quilt
raffle. An additional $3,163.25
was raised from the book cor-
ner during the year.
“I’d say our little volun-
teer project goes a long way
toward helping the library buy
books and fund programs, and
I thank you all for your volun-
teer time.”
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