January Volunteers of the Month Girl Scouts save the backs of Friends of the Library members (literally!) every time we have a book sale. What would we do without them? That’s why the Girl Scouts of Troop 2498 are Volunteers of the Month for January. Each week, FOL members store boxes of books in the…
Melisa Pressley Wins NCLA Award Black Mountain’s own Melisa Pressley was recently presented with the North Carolina Library Association’s prestigious Leadership Institute Award. This competitive award, announced at the 65th NCLA Biennial Conference, recognized her work developing a program to start a new library association that will represent the western district of our state. In Melisa’s…
October Volunteer of the Month Susan Leive spent summers in Black Mountain beginning in 2000 and each year summer lasted longer and longer until she finally relocated full time from the Florida gulf coast in 2009. She is a member of the Friends of the Library Board and is our Volunteer of the Month for…
Gift Basket Help Needed! You all know FOL has been selling gift baskets in our bookstore. They have turned out to be super popular and a great way for FOL to raise additional funds for our library. Each basket features a theme, for example, Mother’s Basket, Puppy Love, Rest and Relaxation, Your Golf Game, etc. The baskets…
FOL Online Bookstores Some of you are aware that FOL volunteers manage two Etsy stores. Lyndall Noyes-Brownell is our veteran Etsy seller and manages the store FOLBlackMountain (https://www.etsy.com/shop/FOLBlackMountain). Laura Lunsford opened a second Etsy store some months ago, and is selling as BlackMountainReads (https://www.etsy.com/shop/BlackMountainReads). Laura and Lyndall are selling vintage and collectible books that are at least 20…
The Things We Find in Books, Chapter 4 The Friends of the Library receive book donations on a weekly basis and are most appreciative. Books are sold in our library bookstore, online, and at book sales, and all funds generated are used to support our own Black Mountain Library. And we also continue to find…
Join us at the Swannanoa Valley Museum Antique Sale Join us at the historic Monte Vista Hotel on Saturday, August 26, as the FOL embarks on a new adventure. We will be participating as a vendor at the Swannanoa Valley Museum Antique Sale! The sale is the first of its kind for the Museum and…
The Things We Find in Books, Chapter 3 The FOL received a large volume of donated books recently and, once again, many of the books contained treasures! Here are a few of our most recent finds. –A 1903 receipt from The School Education Co. in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The receipt is for a square edge that…
A Passion for Books Library patrons and FOL volunteers all over the world share one thing: A passion for books. Here in Black Mountain, many FOL donors share stories about the books — who the books belonged to, what kind of books they are donating, when and where they got the books. A recent large…
Little Free Libraries Tod Bohl built the first Little Free Library in 2009 as a tribute to his deceased mother. Now they are everywhere, including one at the Library of Congress. But do they all look the same? Most that we’re familiar with look like cute little cottages. But take a look at the Little…