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The Bainbridge Island Friends of the Library is a 501(c)3 charitable organization registered with the IRS and the State of Washington which is entirely staffed by volunteers from the community.
 
Our mission is to support the Bainbridge Public Library by working in partnership with the Board of the Bainbridge Public Library and the Library Director.   
 
The kind of support we provide are library events, services, and programs that are compatible with the Bainbridge Public Library policies and objectives.  In addition the Friends promote knowledge of the functions, resources, services, and needs of the library.

Book Sales - Thousands of gently used books!
All through with that book, DVD, magazine, or music CD?
   Box up your old books, CD’s and DVD’s and bring them to the Bainbridge Friends of the library.  The Friends Volunteers will sort your donations, price them, and with three monthly sales, convert them into financial support for library programs and activities that inform and entertain children and adults.  These funds also buy books requested by Islanders and subscriptions to sixty of the magazines our patrons enjoy reading.

   Next time you clean out your book shelves, please join your friends and neighbors and donate your books to the Library.  Become a member of a remarkable partnership: The Bainbridge Island Community and Friends of the Library.

   For more information about what type and condition of books and audio-visual material we need, click here.

  BOOK SALE DATES: In 2012, The Bainbridge FOL will continue with our Second Saturday, Fourth Tuesday, and a once monthly Thursday sale.  (Click here for more information)
 
News items of Interest and Quick Links

 

Will Silverdale raise money to build a new library?  Read about the public meeting.

 

Amazon is both a publisher and seller of books.  Read about the benefits and concerns some have about this growing role.

 

Now all of the issues of the Bainbridge Island Library News are online.  First published in the summer of 1998, you can review any or all of them including the latest Winter 2011 issue.  Click here....

 

Did you miss Martha Bayley's book recommendations at the Volunteer Appreciation Brunch on September 30?  If so, you can find them all here.  Click here for more......

 

Do you own a Kindle?  Now you can check-out eBooks from the library and read them on your Kindle.  Come to the class at the library to learn how to use this service.  Click here for more...

 

Read a really nice article on the "facelift" that took place at the library over the Labor Day weekend.  Click here.... 

 

You can read the North Kitsap Library News on this website.  Click here for the latest issues.

 

What do you think about book publisher HarperCollins limiting the number of times an eBook can be read at the library.  Read the NYT article here....

 

Read the Kitsap Sun article about the closure of the KRL libraries on Sundays.

 

Did you know that some towns and counties in California, Oregon, and Texas have outsourced their public libraries?  Read the NYT article here....


The Friday Tidies who nuture and tend our library gardens need some new volunteers to help out.  Read the Kitsap Sun July 2010 article here.....

 

Book are being stolen from the Port Orchard Library.  Read more here.....

 

Mary Anne Moorman tells her story of Bainbridge Library on KCBS   Watch and listen to her talk at the library

 

A library without books?  Here's an article from Time about bookless libraries.   Read about a radical move in a New England prep school.  Another article indicates "Books are being pushed aside for digital learning centers and gaming areas."  Read more....  Walsenburg, CO (pop 3800) builds new library (NPR interview).

 

Confused about other groups asking for your book donations?  Big blue box bins?  See this recent story in the Kitsap Sun.

 

Coming Events - at the Bainbridge Library: Revolving Art Display

 

Do you know Bainbridge Island's local authors?  Check out their profiles and books.

 

Comments, questions?

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Gift Certificates in the amounts of $10.00, $25.00 and $50.00 are now available for sale at the Cashier's Desk during all three of our monthly book sales.  You can also buy them online - see below.
A book is always a special gift and $10.00 buys a lot of books at the BIFOL sales.  Imagine how many your grandchild, husband or wife, son or daughter, or your best friend could take home for $25.00 or $50.00! 
Certificate Value
 

 Bainbridge Island Friends of the Library

1270 Madison Ave N
Bainbridge Island, WA  98110
Tel: 206-842-4162
FAX: 206-780-5310
 
The Bainbridge Library is one of nine branches of the Kitsap Regional Library