Friends of the Library

About the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library

Visit the Friends website to learn more!

More than 400 individuals and families help support the library each year through their membership in Friends of the San Rafael Public Libraries. An active group of Friends also participates in fundraising, advocacy, and volunteering. Volunteers organize and staff book sales, research rare books, and sort book donations. The Friends contribute to the library through their financial support of the Summer Reading Program, art lectures, and many other programs for kids, teens, and adults. They have purchased books, equipment, and much more over their devoted years of support. They support the downtown library as well as the Pickleweed and Northgate Mall branches.

The Friends main fundraising activity is selling donated books at:

Friends Books
1016 C Street, between 4th Street and 5th Avenue, San Rafael, CA
Hours:
Tuesday – Saturday
10:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
(415) 453-1443

Book lovers of all ages are invited to visit our bookstore in the heart of downtown San Rafael. Friends Books offers a full range of new and gently-used books, beautifully organized and displayed for your browsing and shopping pleasure. Enter through a rare downtown garden into the sunny and friendly shop, just around the corner from Fourth Street and next door to the parking garage on C Street and 5th Avenue.

The Friends also have large, themed sales at the library or at other locations throughout the year.

Donations

If you have books, CDs or DVDs that are in good condition and wish to make a donation, please go to the Donate Books page of the Friends of the San Rafael Public Library (Friends Books) website to check our current policy for donations. Thank you.

Please do not to leave items outside.

We cannot accept: