The FriendShop Used Book Store
Open Saturdays & Sundays 1:30–4:30 pm
The FriendShop offers bargains on used books, audiobooks, DVDs/VHS, and music in a well-stocked shop on the lower level of the library. Most items sell for 50 cents to $1.50. All major credit cards are accepted. Proceeds benefit the library. The shop is open Saturdays and Sundays from 1:30 to 4:30 pm.
2-for-1 Savings Weekends
Friends members can enjoy 2-for-1 savings on nearly everything at the FriendShop on the second weekend each month. Membership costs just $10 a year, so you’ll quickly earn that back! (Purchase limited to $100, before discount; second item of same type, of equal or lesser value; excludes individually priced “special” items.)
Books/Movies/Music
$1.00 Hardback Fiction
$1.50 Hardback Nonfiction
$1.00 Trade Paperbacks
$0.50 Smaller, Mass Market Paperbacks
$0.50 All Children’s and Teen Books
$1.00 Audiobooks
$1.50 DVDs
$1.00 CDs
$0.50 Audio Cassettes, VHS
$2.00 “Bargain Bags” full of fiction, mystery, or romance
$3/$1 Recent bestsellers from the library rental collection
PLUS individually priced “Special Books”
Donating Books, Movies & CDs
The library accepts donations of books, CDs, and DVDs that are clean and in good condition. Items we feel would benefit our patrons go into our collection; others go to the FriendShop. Tax receipts are available.
Please don’t donate items that are torn, worn, moldy, damaged, or dirty. We cannot accept magazines and Reader’s Digest Condensed Books, nor encyclopedias or textbooks more than 5 years old.
Place donations of a few items in our book returns. For larger quantities, please put them in a box or bag and leave them outside the back of the library, at the white garage door. (Use the driveway just east of the book return drive.)
For other places to take items, see Recycling, Donating, and Getting Rid of Stuff under “Your Community/Home & Garden.”
You can also support the library by contributing to the Champaign Public Library Foundation.
BOGO Sales
During July, fiction books (paperback and hardback) and VHS tapes are “buy one, get one free” at the FriendShop. In August, save on fiction books with a pink sticker. Regular-priced books will be “buy one, get one.” Individually priced ”special” fiction with pink labels will be half price. Books on tape will also be “buy one, get one free” in August. Free item of same type, of equal or lesser value.”
Great Baby Gift
Baby Boogie! CD $15
The library’s own CD of catchy tunes for tots features top-notch local talent and was a Parents’ Choice Approved Award Winner. The CD is part of a giveaway to parents of CU newborns, made possible by the Friends, that includes a booklet of reading tips and a board book.
Contact the Friends
E-mail the Friends at friendsofchampaignpl@gmail.com or leave a message on the FriendShop line at 217/403-5395.
