Great to see TV6 out covering our booksale. It went really well and lots and lots of people got lots and lots of great books!
Author: Steven Walton
Views Newsletter 28.1 (March 2023)
The spring 2023 issue of the newsletter has now been mailed to members’ mailboxes.
Download the PDF version here: FMTL Views 28.1 (Mar. 2023).
Winter Carnival book sale Sat. Feb. 11, 11-4
Come join us for our annual Winter Carnival book sale on Saturday, February 11 from 11am to 4pm. Hundreds of books at low, low prices: HB $2, PB $1; children’s books 50¢! All fiction half price. We also have lots of old MTU yearbooks for sale at a special price of $1 each!
Sunflower Books
A small bookstore with used books, coffee and some baked goods at 528 Quincy St., right across the street from Finlandia University. See their Facebook page for hours and more.
Fall trial book sale a great success
As we realized that we had a long time between book sales, when we didn’t do anything in the fall, and two of them in the spring, we decided to try a one day sale in the library this fall.
Friday, October 7 was also the day of an all-campus “First Friday” social that also happened to be sponsored by library so we set up from 10 to 4 in the lobby. All in all, it was a great success, so expect more of the same each fall.
Thanks to always for all out volunteers, customers, and especially the library (and for taking cards at the service desk, which facilitated about 1/3 of the sales!).
Views Newsletter 27.2 (October 2022)
The spring 2022 issue of the newsletter is now mailing to members’ mailboxes.
Download the PDF version here: FMTL Views 27.2 (Oct. 2022).
Views Newsletter 27.1 (March 2022)
The spring 2022 issue of the newsletter is now mailing to members’ mailboxes.
Download the PDF version here: FMTL Views 27.1 (Mar. 2022).
Travel Grants Return for 2022
After a hiatus due to covid, FMTL is pleased to announce the resumption of its Travel Grant program for 2022.
Applications will be due on April 15 with a decision made shortly thereafter to facilitate summer travel.
For more information, please see the application page at the Library.
Donate your Books to FMTL
—We need books!—
Books, Books, Books! Make room for new books on your shelves by donating your old books to the Friends book sale. All proceeds go to help the Michigan Tech Van Pelt and Opie Library.
There are, however, things we do not take, because they just won’t sell:
- CDs, LP records, VHS tapes, or audio tapes (cassette/8-track/R2R)
- old, tattered, yellowed, marked up or damaged books
- marked up lab manuals or instructor’s class guides
- conference proceedings, magazines, journals, and similar things
- outdated almanacs, travel guides, computer books and manuals
- catalogs, telephone books, equipment instruction manuals
- general encyclopedias or similar sets (unless of high quality/rarity or specialty types [e.g., a 3-vol. Encylopedia of WWII Aircraft])
If you have items that are deeply vintage (>50 years old), please contact us.
If you have only a few book sale donations, you may drop them off in the shiny new donation box located in the Library vestibule (between the glass doors to the left as you enter).
If you have a box or bag of books, you may unload them at the Library loading dock. Call a Library staff member at the Service Desk at 906-487-2508 to have someone meet you at the back door to help.
If you need help getting your book sale donation books to the Library and would like someone to come to your house to pick them up, call Steve Walton at 906-487-3272 or email Susan Martin at srmartin@mtu.edu.
Welcome to 2022
We hope that 2022 finds you well and prospering. Just a small update on our plans for the year:
- At the moment, there will likely be a minimal presence of FMTL during Winter Carnival. You may know that in years past we had a really hoping book sale and free hot chocolate in the library on Saturday (which this year is 12 Feb.). Even before omicron reared up (though it may well have burned itself out by Feb.), we had decided to follow last year’s procedure of a couple smaller book carts and to forego the hot chocolate and cookie table. We’ll let you know here if things change significantly. But as far as we know, the library should be open for you to warm up!
- The spring book sale is still Thursday and Friday, March 31 and April 1 in the MUB. Again, we will update as things evolve this winter, but we hope to see you there!