News – Friends of the Michigan Tech Library

Friends Annual Booksale 2026

The Annual Michigan Tech Library book sale will be held this year on Wednesday and Thursday March 25-26 in the Memorial Union Building (MUB) on campus. Thousands of gently used donated books for sale in all ranges of fiction and non-fiction categories. This year we have especially strong donation in mathematics and history.

• Wednesday night from 5–7pm is the members’ pre-sale (memberships available at the door starring at $20) and students with ID enter for free.

• The main sale, including library withdrawals, will be Thursday from 10am–4pm, with the 3–4pm hour devoted to our famous $5 bag sale!

Prices are 50¢ or $1 for paperbacks and $2 for hardbacks. Some specially priced local interest and rare(r) books will be for sale as well.

Cash, card, and check accepted (ATM in building). All proceeds go to the library with an all-volunteer crew and no overhead on your card sales. Parking is free on campus after 4pm, and there is metered parking right outside the MUB at other times.

[Click for map] Memorial Union Building, Houghton, MI

FMTL Winter Carnival Sale is here

Come one, come all! And come in to get warm in the library during Winter Carnival statue viewing on Saturday. The Friends of the Library is having its annual Winter Carnival book sale from 10-3 on Saturday Feb. 7. Books priced from 50¢ to $2 in all categories (though note we don’t put out lots of technical books for this sale; for those, come see us at the end of March for our big annual sale!)

We also got covereage this year in the Michigan Tech Lode: “Friends of the Michigan Tech Library to host annual book sale.“

Views Newsletter 30.2 (October 2025)

The spring 2023 issue of the newsletter has now been mailed to members’ mailboxes.

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Download the PDF version here: FMTL Views 30.2 (Oct. 2025).

Views Newsletter 29.2 (October 2024)

The fall 2024 issue of the newsletter has now been mailed to members’ mailboxes.

Download the PDF version here: FMTL Views 29.2 (Oct. 2024).

W would like to apologize that the old news posts that have direct links to newsletters are now broken (the old plug-in stopped working and rebuilding every page may take a little bit as it is not a priority). All previous newsletters can be found on the Newsletters page.

2023 Annual Meeting

The Wreck of the City of Bangor

The City of Bangor was carrying hundreds of brand-new Chrysler automobiles destined for Duluth when she was trapped in the ice in 1925. Come hear how the cars were saved!

Watch Live via Zoom: https://michigantech.zoom.us/j/83464885537

TV6 covers our book sale

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!

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!

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!).