Donation Center Closed December 16 to January 5
Please do not leave donations outside the donation center!
Friends 2025 Holiday Lobby Sale
The Friends Holiday Lobby Sale is up through the end of January! Stop by anytime during our open hours to check it out. The sale is being refreshed daily as space allows, so new items are being added all the time.
Featuring new and like new:
- Fiction & Nonfiction in hardcover and softcover for adults, teens, and kids
- Gorgeous coffee table books
- Vinyl Records, DVDs, & CDs
- Puzzles & Games
- Gift & Boutique Items
Payment is by cash, check, or PayPal (which you can pay for online with a credit or debit card).
Proceeds from this sale go to the Friends, who fund almost all of the library's events for all ages as well as its museum passes, reading challenges, an annual scholarship, and more.
About the Friends of the Southbury Public Library, Inc.:
We are a non-profit, voluntary, incorporated organization. Our major sources of funding are the annual book and media sales and membership dues.
Becoming a Friend
To become a member of The Friends of the Southbury Public Library, Inc., please see information below. Donations are tax deductible to the extent of the law; please consult your tax advisor. The Friends welcome both annual memberships and targeted donations, which may be memorials or gifts honoring a special person or occasion.
Our Mission
To foster close relations between the Southbury Public Library and the community, and to encourage the full use of the library. The Friends provide supplementary programs, services, and equipment in order to increase effectiveness and scope of the Southbury Public Library.
Meetings
We regularly meet on the third Thursday of each month from 6:30 PM – 8:00 PM in the Friends Donation Center in the Southbury Plaza. If you would like to attend a meeting, please contact Jeff O'Sullivan, President, at 203-578-5988.
What The Friends Do
We purchase passes for free/reduced admission to area museums; fund programs for adults, teens, and children; provide coffee/tea for a nominal fee (dispenser is behind staircase); provide funding for the Library Music Series; award annual scholarship(s) up to $2000; and offer umbrella bags to keep the library clean and dry. In 2019, the Friends funded a major upgrade to the library's courtyard gardens and installed new lighting.
Book Donations
The Friends of the Southbury Public Library are accepting donations for future book sales to raise funds for library programs and services to benefit the community. The Friends’ Donation Center is located at their new space, generously donated by Gatto Development Corporation, in the Southbury Plaza between Catalyst Gym and The Paper Store. The Center is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., and Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m.
Items accepted include gently-used hardcover, softcover, and paperback books in all genres, both fiction and nonfiction, for adults, teens, and children. The Friends also accept DVDs, music CDs, vinyl records, audiobooks on CD, jigsaw puzzles, and games. Donation receipts for tax purposes are available.
The floods of August 18-19, 2024, completely destroyed the entire Friends’ inventory of material collected in the past year from generous donors. The Friends are extremely grateful to all those in the community, the surrounding towns, and even out of state, who have so generously donated books and other materials. The success of past sales allows us to continue to fund almost all programs offered by the library.
For more information about the Friends of the Southbury Public Library, please contact Book Sale Chairman John Michaels at 203-525-0199, or Jeff O’Sullivan, President, at 203-578-5988.
Book Sale
Our most recent Annual Spring Book Sale was in the spring of 2024. For more information about the Friends of the Southbury Public Library's Book Sale, click here.
Join the Friends of the Library
The Friends of the Southbury Public Library, Inc. know that one of the best ways to assure the quality of life in our community is by having a thriving Public Library that provides an abundance of entertaining and enlightening Children, Teen and Adult programs.
The Friends play an important role in the Life of the Library by underwriting programs and helping to purchase equipment, supplies, Museum passes, conducting the Book Sales program and more. Yearly membership in the Friends make this possible. Would you like to participate in this vital process?
Membership Information
The membership year is from July 1st to June 30th. Membership levels are as follow:
- Individual - $10
- Family - $25
- Donor - $50
- Patron - $100
- Benefactor - greater than $100
You can give a Gift Membership to a special person. Please include the recipient's name on PayPal (in "Write a note" field) or the paper form and we will acknowledge your generosity with a letter to them.
A receipt for Tax purposes and information regarding your membership, the programs and events the Friends sponsors will be mailed to you. The Friends of the Southbury Public Library, Inc. is an IRS registered nonprofit 501(c)3 Corporation whose charter is to privately support the Southbury Public Library and its relationship with the community
Join or renew online with your credit card
You can now join the Friends of the Southbury Public Library or renew your membership online. You do not need to have a Paypal account, just a credit or debit card.
Join or renew by mailing in a check
To join or renew your membership by mail, download the Membership Form.