WHO WE ARE
The Friends of the Library, Inc., is an all-volunteer Section 501c3 charitable organization. Our members and volunteers believe excellent public libraries are a needed resource for our community. To make this happen, we operate a used bookstore and have popup and an annual book sale, the net proceeds of which are donated to the Macon-Bibb County Library system.
More than a half-century of accomplishments
Since 1966, when the Friends of the Library began in Macon with twelve members (we now have over 250), our organization has donated over $2.5 million dollars to the Macon-Bibb County Library system.
Book sales, membership dues, and donations have helped fund:
- The purchase by the library system of thousands of new adult titles
- Puppet theaters, films, audiovisual equipment, and books by the hundreds for the library system’s children’s department
- Summer Reading programs for children of all ages
- Furniture and equipment in the library for special needs patrons
- Large print books
- Audiobooks
- The Georgia Author Collection, indexes, and the preservation of rare local documents for our library system’s Genealogical and Historical Room
- Microfilm and microfiche reader/printers and computers for reference and cataloging
- New Reader books at Washington Memorial Library to facilitate the Project Read Program
- Scholarships for library employees pursuing ALA – accredited masters’ degrees
- Renovation of the current location of our bookstore at 5494 Forsyth Road
We also contributed $50,000 to the Lanford Branch when it opened in 2008