Library Announcements

* Friends & Bookends Used Book Store Welcomes Donations:   The Friends of the Library are excited to announce that the Book Store will re-open on Monday, October 4.  The following dates are for donations of NEW, CURRENT FICTION and NON-FICTION books in GOOD CONDITION; we are NOT accepting textbooks, encyclopedias, DVDs, music CDs, or Books on CD.  Only ONE bag or small box per person, due to space limitations.  Donations may be dropped off at the Book Store on the following dates:

• Weds., 9/22:  5pm to 7pm
• Sat., 9/25:  10am to noon

* Warwick Children's Book Festival:  we are delighted to announce that the Warwick Children's Book Festival will be back!  Mark your calendar for Saturday, October 9 from 11am-4pm at Stanley-Deming Park.  Admission is free and the public is welcome.  Meet more than 50 award-winning authors and illustrators of children's books, who are looking forward to talking with children and their families.  The authors' books will be available for autographing and purchase.  Free children's concert at noon by The Uncle Brothers.  Therapy dogs, a children's craft and even food trucks!  A wonderful, family-friendly outdoor event celebrating the love of the written word.  Please join us and spread the word!  Full details on the Festival's website (warwickchildrensbookfestival.org).

* The Great Give Back Recycling Program:  please start saving, rather than discarding, your depleted oral care, shaving and makeup products in anticipation of a special 6-month recycling program focused on hard-to-recycle products.  The Great Give Back Recycling Program, in collaboration with Sustainable Warwick, Green Future, SUNY Orange and RCLS, will enable you to drop off such items at the Library and at other area libraries for recycling beginning on October 16.  Read more here!