NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 28 number 1 - Fall 2007

Friends of the Library News: Book Sale Remains Popular Event

By Anna Dahlstein, Friends of the Library

Students seeking bargain-priced textbooks and avid readers from the community expressed satisfaction with their serendipitous discoveries at the Friends' eighteenth annual Book Sale, held April 26 through 28, 2007, on the Brickyard. Although used books are readily available online, people clearly enjoy "the thrill of the hunt" and in-person browsing. Recreational reading aside, the most popular subject categories at the sale this year remained math, engineering, and the natural sciences, which were well represented thanks to donations from many NC State faculty, students, and alumni.

Proceeds from the sale enhance the Libraries' collections and services. For more information on giving books, music, movies, or games to the Friends of the Library, please call (919) 515-2841 or visit www.lib.ncsu.edu/friends/booksales.html.