Friends of the Carson City

The public is invited to the 4th annual New York New Year’s Eve Party, hosted by The Friends of the Carson City Library and the Carson City Library Foundation. The event, which helps raise funds for the Carson City Library, will be held from 6 to 10 pm in the Carson Nugget Ballroom.

Tickets are $50 each, or $375 for a table for eight, and include a buffet dinner, no-host bar, dancing, and live and silent auctions. Guest will also enjoy a balloon drop, live streaming of the Times Square ball drop and a champagne toast at 9 pm.

The public is invited to the 4th annual New York New Year’s Eve Party, hosted by The Friends of the Carson City Library and the Carson City Library Foundation. The event, which helps raise funds for the Carson City Library, will be held from 6 to 10 pm in the Carson Nugget Ballroom.

Tickets are $50 each, or $375 for a table for eight, and include a buffet dinner, no-host bar, dancing, and live and silent auctions. Guest will also enjoy a balloon drop, live streaming of the Times Square ball drop and a champagne toast at 9 pm.

Creativity goes wild this week as the Friends of the Carson City Library hosts its annual Home for the Holidays Handmade Gifts and Creations Sale from Thursday through Saturday at the Carson City Library auditorium.

There'll be plenty of unique creations, handmade accessories, stocking stuffers and ideal gifts for the holiday season, plus raffle prizes too.

Summer beach reading favorites and a Saturday morning Kiwanis Club pancake breakfast are on tap beginning today at the Friends of the Carson City Library's Bargain Blast Book Bonanza.

All adult hardcover books will be 50 cents each and paperbacks will be 25 cents. The sale will be at the Carson City Library, 900 N. Roop Street, today, Friday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m.

An action-packed week filled with music, arts, books, Nevada political history and more will be featured as Carson City Library celebrates National Library week.

Special events kick off Monday, 6 p.m., at the library auditorium with “The Lure of Music, a Human Universal” presented by internationally-recognized music scholar Fredric Lieberman, Ph.D., a distinguished professor of music at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Comedian Paula Poundstone performs Friday night in Carson City in a show benefiting the Friends of the Carson City Library. We recently spoke to Poundstone about her long career as a comic and the importance of libraries.

The Friends of the Carson City Library will welcome comedienne Paula Poundstone in concert at the Bob Boldrick Theater in Carson City on Friday, March 29.

Doors open at 7 p.m. with the performance at 7:30 p.m. at the Theater, located in the Carson City Community Center. Reserved seats are $45 and general admission $35. Tickets can be bought at www.ticketderby.com (go to Paula Poundstone.) Tickets can also be purchased by calling (775) 885-9807 or at the Browsers Corner Book Store at the Carson City Library.

The Friends of the Carson City Library Book Sale will be held at their new facility at 2311 North Carson Street (just behind Denny's Restaurant). The sale will be Friday, March 15th and Saturday, March 16th from 10 am to 4 pm. Come early to browse through thousands of books for adults and children as well as a large assortment of videos and other audio-visual selections. As always we feature great books at bargai prices.

Friends of the Library book lovers will now have a larger place to buy books and the Carson City Chamber of Commerce plans to launch the opening with a ribbon cutting.

The Friends of the Carson City Library has a new location for book sales. It is at 2311 North Carson Street, just behind Denny's Restaurant. There is lots of parking off of Hot Springs both in front of the building and behind it. Having a "permanent" space for our sales means that we will be having a sale very month.
The hours for our first sale in February are:

— Thursday, Feb. 14th - 3 pm to 6 pm - preview for members only
— Friday and Saturday, Feb. 15 & 16 - 10 am to 4 pm for everybody

Go to www.friendscclibrary.org for information about the Friend of the Library and how to join.

Carson City, NV—The Carson City Friends of the Library CCFL is hosting a performance by award winning comedienne, Paula Poundstone to raise money for the Library. The CCFL invited Poundstone to Carson City to celebrate National Friends of the Library Week and to help raise money for the Library.

The performance will take place on Friday, October 26 at the Bob Boldrick Theater (Community Center), located at 851 East William Street in Carson City. The doors open at 7 PM.

The Friends of the Carson City Library organization was recognized during the Carson City Chamber of Commerce mixer at the Carson City Library on Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012. Chamber Chairman Stan Jones poses with Friends members, from left, Freida Ford, Robin Williamson and Phyllis Patton.
Photo by Cathleen Allison/Nevada Photo Source

The Friends of the Carson City Library will have their Harvest Book Sale at the Library Thursday, Sept. 21 from 10 am to 5 pm and Saturday, Sept. 22 from 10 am to 4pm. All books for sale are newly donated. We have a large assortment of fiction and nonfiction, adult and children's books, hardcovers and paperbacks. There will be a preview sale for members of the Friends on Thursday, Sept. 20 from 5:30 to 7:00 pm. Nonmmembers can join at the door. All proceeds benefit the Carson City Library. Call 775-882-5458 for more information.

The Friends of the Carson City Library are having their annual Bargain Book Sale Friday and Saturday, August 10th and 11th from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Sale will be held at the Carson City Library, 900 N. Roop Street. All hardcover books will be priced at $1.00, paperbacks at 2 for $1.00 and children's books at 4 for $1.00. Also for sale will be videos and records at 10 for $1.00. There will be a preview sale Thursday, August 9th from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. for members of the Friends of the Library. If you're not a member yet you can join at the door.

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Contact: Andrea Moore
900 N. Roop St
775.887.2244 x 1019
awmoore@clan.lib.nv.us

Capital City Reads: A Thousand Splendid Suns

CARSON CITY, NEVADA-The Carson City Library would like to invite the entire community to participate in a citywide reading initiative to discuss the timely, and powerful message found in Khaled Hosseini’s best seller, A Thousand Splendid Suns.

The Friends of the Carson City Library have contributed an additional $50,000 check to the Carson City Library for implementation of Phase II of the Radio Frequency Identification system. The co...

With fall around the corner, now's the time to pick up some good books for those cool night readings. The Friends of the Carson City Library will hold its Harvest Book Sale beginning Thursday Sept. 9 through Saturday, Sept. 11. at the library, 900 N. Roop Street.

Nine-year-old Sonia Byington, left, and her mother, Kendall, of Santa Cruz, Calif., stopped by the Carson Mall in Carson City on Saturday afternoon for the Friends of the Carson City Library Bargain Book Sale. The daughter-school teacher team were in Carson City this weekend visiting family member Cindy Byington, a Friends of the Library volunteer. The next Friends of the Library book sale will be in September.

Join the Friends of the Carson City Library when they hold their annual Bargain Book Sale at the Carson Mall. There's always great books at bargain prices, with nothing more than $1.
The Bargain Book Sale will begin Friday, Aug.t 13, and run from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. and Saturday Aug. 14, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.