Through their projects, the Friends strive to give children an educational head start, encourage literacy and foster lifelong learning and recreation for adults. The Friends have almost 1,000 members. Their volunteers produce three community-wide booksales annually, manage a bookstore entitled Secondhand Prose and conduct a unique auction called A Tisket, A Tasket, A Literary Basket . The organization has met United Way's Standards of Excellence. Without these as well as the cash donations, we would be unable to offer the wide variety of educational and cultural offerings to our community.
Renewal Call any of our libraries to renew library books and materials.
The check-out period for books and materials is three weeks. An additional three-week renewal can be obtained on all materials, except items on hold for other patrons. Returning books Books may be returned to any Washoe County Library regardless of where they were checked out. Selected libraries also have book drops on the outside of the building. Call your nearest library for more information.