The Friends of the Rice Public Library provide valuable assistance in the form of volunteer help and fun-raising activities.
Volunteers help the library staff with tasks such as typing, filing, shelving and book-mending.
They usually meet once a week and assist in all phases of maintaining the Maine Room Collection. Funds raised by the Friends provide the library with needed equipment and furnishings. They also support library programing and contribute to the book budget. In May the Friends sponsor an annual Pot-Luck Luncheon. The Friends also sponsor a continuing used Book Sale at the library.