Hooray for libraries and for the Jesup! Our staff and volunteers had a blast in Bar Harbor’s Fourth of July Parade. Thanks to everyone for coming out!

Special Items Available at this year’s Booksale

We will have a table of Specials at this year’s booksale, as well as a table of what we call Nice Old Books. There will be prices on these items, unlike the bulk of the sale which is by a generous donation that you think is fair value for each item to help support our library.  The sale will be on Saturday, August 16th from 10 to 4. This is our last year at the parking lot of the Bar Harbor Congregational Church. (Thanks once more!)

We have been given an enormous number of cookbooks, old and modern, primarily from two donors.  There are also have an extraordinary collection of handcraft volumes, many from other countries.  We have a surprising collection of books about fashion.  Some of these will be priced at the Specials table.  The library weeded its history section, so that will be rich in opportunities.  And, we have another bounty of jigsaw puzzles of varying sizes (one donor helpfully marked on the bottom “very hard” or “difficult.”)  The CD’s will again be sorted by type of music and verified to be in the correct clamshell!  Mysteries will be organized alphabetically to make it easy to collect a favorite author’s entire series.  

We still have many titles in the Library of America series. We won’t have these at the sale, but if you would like to know what titles we have or would like a really impressive backdrop for online meetings, please contact Ruth Eveland at reveland@jesuplibrary.org or 207-610-2355.

Donations are accepted at our sorting location on Tuesdays from 4 to 5:30pm and Saturdays from 1 to 3pm, or by appointment. Contact Ruth for a special time or directions.  We will accept donations through August 5th so weed your shelves now.

We appreciate those of you who are coming back to help yet again, but we also still need some new volunteers, either to help with moving/setting up/cleaning up or during the sale itself. If you have special interest in/experience with vinyl records we could use a few minutes of your brain. If you are interested in helping in any way please let Ruth know at reveland@jesuplibrary.org or 207-610-2355.