Come To Our Next Book Sale!
Saturday, February 12th and Sunday, February 13th, 2022
Cubberley Community Center
4000 Middlefield Road – Palo Alto
It is with regret that FOPAL has decided to cancel our next sale, scheduled for February 12th and 13th. We cannot put our volunteers or customers at risk, with the current threat of the highly contagious Omicron variant. It would not be right to proceed with an event that may well endanger the health of those in attendance, and others with whom they come in contact. We hope to resume our monthly sales as soon as the spread of COVID abates, and we can do so safely.
Friends & Family Sales
Our monthly sales will be on hold until the health risk to our customers and volunteers is substantially reduced. We monitor the health situation continually and we look forward to returning to our monthly sales when we can offer them with as little risk as possible.
If you miss our sales and our fantastic offerings of items in three rooms, we have started a program we call Friends and Family. Anyone who wants to shop is definitely a Friend and you can sign up via SignUp.com:
Main Room:
Appointments begin Tuesday January 11
https://signup.com/go/xaTuNnK
Requested minimum purchase (per person): $30
Children’s Room:
Appointments begin Tuesday January 11
https://signup.com/go/ceYabjC
Requested minimum purchase (per person): $20
Bargain Room:
Appointments begin Monday January 17
https://signup.com/go/utMmqga
No requested minimum purchase, but please sign up with the intention
to show up and look for something to buy (prices start at $1 and
mostly go down from there)
There are rules.
Customers must have exact change or a check, or PayPal or Venmo app on phone.
Customers must shop only on shelves where items are priced. Volunteers continue to price and shelve books from boxes on the floor.
Donations
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. And sometimes we take holidays, so we are closed Monday January 17 for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
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 ephemera, electronics, art, records, music CDs, or plushies/stuffed animals will be accepted. See the temporary list of what we do and do not accept at https://www.fopal.org/donate.
FOPAL offers the use of hand trucks & carts if needed.