4000 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto, CA
- Main Room – 11am-4pm
- Bargain Room – 9:30am-4pm
- Children’s Room – 10am-4pm
- Music Popup – 10am-3pm (Outside Main Room)
FOPAL accepts the following forms of payments at our monthly sale events: cash, check, credit cards, Apple Pay, Zelle, and PayPal.
For the safety and comfort of all participants, we suggest customers wear masks, and we expect to have lower than usual room occupancy requirements in all rooms.
FOPAL is open for drop-off donations, no appointment needed, most weeks Monday-Saturday, 3-5pm at our Main Room. Donations are not accepted the week preceding the sale.
Friends of the Palo Alto Library (FOPAL) is located at 4000 Middlefield Rd. in the Cubberley Community Center/CCC. You’ll be delivering your books at FOPAL’s Main Room, the portable by the tennis courts, using the CCC north entrance.
Donors will be greeted at FOPAL’s Main Room by a volunteer Donation Monitor and asked to place donations in FOPAL’s banker boxes and then move the books/boxes up the ramp to FOPAL’s Sorting Room. Sorting Room volunteers will help direct donors as to where to place the boxes and offer a receipt and a thank-you.
There will be a limit of six bags/boxes per donation.
No electronics, art, or plushies/stuffed animals will be accepted. See the detailed list of what we do and do not accept.
FOPAL offers the use of hand trucks & carts if needed.