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Mission: The mission of the friends is to: support the library and promote literacy; raise funds to enhance library services and programs; encourage community involvement; promote love of reading and love of learning; recirculate materials in environmentally responsible ways.
Programs: The friends of pima county public library are a group of avid library advocates dedicated to supporting and enhancing library services and programs. The friends were founded in 1969 to raise funds for special and innovative library programs, equipment and services, which are not part of the normal annual budget. We accomplish this by raising funds through the sale of books, memberships, and grants. We have community book sales at our book barn at 2230 n. Country club road. We also sell books online, at eighteen retail spaces in libraries, and at various community and neighborhood events, including the tucson festival of books. With a large group of dedicated volunteers, the friends have provided over $2. 3 million to the pima county public library over the last ten years, making possible the acquisition and/or sponsorship of the following: summer reading program; tucson writer's project; project lift; southwest literature project; technology for branches; vehicles for outreach and servicing the branches; story town and nuestras raices; and hundreds of smaller and one-time projects.
Friends is great to volunteer at & buy books and other media from. Friends is mostly run by volunteers and takes books and other media donated from public libraries and the community and re-sells them to fund library projects. We give almost a quarter of a million dollars a year back to our libraries in Pima County, and the stuff we can't sell in the community we recycle in various ways so that it doesn't end up in the landfills. Our prices are some of the best in town.
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