The Friends of Morley Library have planned a book sale for 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. March 8 in the lower level of the library, 184 Phelps St., Painesville. The sale will include more than 12,000 gently used items, arranged by category — including children's, adult, collectible books, movies, music and audio books.

Friends members will be eligible for a drawing and receive one free hardback and two free paperback books. Friends memberships may be purchased the day of the sale.

Geauga County Public Library's Friends of the Bookmobile are sponsoring a sale of gently used library materials during the Great Geauga County Fair, Aug. 29 through Sept. 2. Fairgoers can attend the sale in the book barn (next to the free parking area by Gate 1), leave their selections with library staff and volunteers, and pick up their materials when they leave the fair.


According to a news release:

GCPL has been expanding its collection over the past year, resulting in extra weeding efforts to make room for new materials. The upshot of this practice is that hundreds of additional fiction and nonfiction titles are now available for people to acquire and add into their personal collections. Also, a wide variety of DVDs and CDs will be on the shelves.

Monday is “bag day,” when $3 buys people a bag filled with as many books as it will hold.

“The book sale at the fair is popular every year,” says Bookmobile Manager Jane Attina, “but this year’s selection is among the most robust I’ve ever seen. This is a great time to stock up on all kinds of reading material.”

A big thank you to all those who came to Wednesday's NH Book Club Book Sale.
It was such a hit, we're already talking about when to host another one. (It will likely be in February or March. But we'll keep you posted here.)
A special thanks to the shopper who shared her love of Terry Pratchett. I'll be headed to the library to check him out

We raised more than $400 that will put newspapers in the classroom as a teaching tool for local educators.
To learn more about our Newspapers in Education program, contact Stacey Mastascusa.

See you in the stacks!

- Tricia Ambrose   l  @triciaambrose

Thank goodness there's a book sale at Euclid Public Library this weekend.

My shelves at home are looking a little bare since I donated some volumes to The NHBookClub's upcoming book sale to benefit The News-Herald's Newspapers in Education program.

NIE is a program that puts newspapers in the classroom, providing educators with an additional resource for teaching social studies, math, science, history and more. During the 2011-12 school year, 132 area teachers took advantage of the program - at all grade levels and including at-risk youth programs and adult basic education classes. That's according to our NIE coordinator Stacey Mastascusa.

We raise funds to cover 75 percent of the cost of classroom newspapers and all of the costs of curriculum guides, educational supplements, teacher guides and teacher workshops. Our business partners and vacationing subscribers provide the rest of the funding.

We're always trying to think of new ways to raise those needed funds. So when our Circulation Director Tom Pottorff suggested we host a book sale - a concept that had proven successful elsewhere - we said, count us in.

The timing worked out great.



We've been in the midst of reorganizing space in our newsroom to open areas for our media lab members to work and for those in the community to be able to access our archives.

The massive cleanup left us with some materials we no longer use/have space to house.

Encyclopedias or media guides anyone?

The sale will run from noon to 7 p.m. Oct. 10 at The News-Herald, 7085 Mentor Ave., Willoughby.

I'm looking forward to meeting fellow book lovers, so please say hi, and share your favorite reads while you're browsing, I'm always on the prowl for suggestions.

 - Tricia Ambrose  l  @triciaambrose  l  tambrose@news-herald.com