University Daily Kansan / Friday, October 7, 1988
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Public library sells used books, buys new
By Carrie Harper Special to the Kansan
Throughout the year, a royal blue and white toy box sits in the foyer of the Lawrence Public Library waiting for someone to pick it up. Wayway, Keats and Austen to draw on.
Approximately 35,000 books are sorted and priced in preparation for the annual Friends of the Public Library residents' conference to help with the task. The sale runs Friday through Monday in the garage of the Public Library.
Occasionally, even a Mozart or Tchaekovsky is showcased on the annual book sale sponsored by the Friends of the Lawrence Public Library. The lawrence
The year-round donations gather enough books for a four-day sale. This year, the sale is from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, from tomorrow, to soon up to 5 a.m. and, from 10 to 5 a.m. Monday in the basement of the Lawrence Public Library.
Jeff Weinberg, president of Friends of the Library and co-chairman of the book fiction was the biggest donation item. Other books that will be on sale include biography, travel, mystery, law, psychology, juvenile and romance.
Friday and Saturday, all items are prized as marked, but hardbacks are low as 50 cents and paperbacks are low as 25 cents. On Sunday, everything is half price Monday, is the grocery a full price or a grocery sack full of book costs $3
"People buy those romances by the bags without even looking at the titles," Weinberg said. "It's incredli-
ble."
A corps of about eight volunteers sorts and marks the thousands of
books that come in throughout the year, Weinberg said.
The books, magazines and albums
donated are often garage sale let-towers or the result of someone's house cleaning. Sometimes, though, outdated or worn-out books are removed from the library for the sale, Weinberg said.
"Occasionally a faculty member will die or move to Presbyterian Manor, and we'll inherit huge collections." Weinberg said.
Last year, the sale raised $30,000,
said Wemberg, who is also the associate
director of financial and at the
banks. The group of friends
hope raise $25,000 per year.
all proceeds from the sale go
directly to the Lawrence Public
Library. The money primarily is
received through a book store,
library, but last year, the Friends
also paid for half of the John D.
and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
library video classes project. The
company developed a public television programs.
Mayo said that he hoped this year's book sale would help install a computer access line to Watson library, add more books and purchase more books on audiotapes.
Wayne Mayo, director of the library, said that the money that was raised from the book sale paid for about 10 percent of the library's book
Mary Lou Wright, a Lawrence resident and member of Friends, said that she looked forward to the sale.
"I'm heartbroken because I'm going to be out of town that weekend, and I'll miss my fix of cheap books." Wright said.
Pub hires barroom philosopher
The Associated Press
SWINDON, England — Six weeks ago, Julius Tomin was so desperate had to pedal 100 miles across the country to congress fellow philosophers.
*Starting yesterday, Tomin had a philosopher who Neel Reilly is talking to an 8-year-old thinker $8,500 to give to his Biebee in Swindon.
Tomin thinks the 100-year-old
Socrates, a poor man who went
barefoot, might have engaged in
his philosophical dialogues in
The first talk by the bespectacled philosopher was a discourse on freedom to be a good-natured, but generally crowded but generally reverent crowd.
Tomin, a Czechoslovak dissident emigre, dwelled on the meaning of freedom to a prisoner.
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