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Friends sale offers 15,000 books to public, Oct. 17-20
Posted 6/1/2001
MADISON--More than 15,000 books on almost 
any subject will be on sale in a fund-raiser for the Friends of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries Oct. 17-20.
The materials are donated primarily by UW faculty, staff, students and area residents. The public sale helps fund an annual lecture series, special purchases for the libraries' collections, preservation projects, and a visiting scholar support program. In the past four years, nearly two dozen campus libraries received over $100,000 through a small-grant program supported by the book sales.
Among the special collections being offered are books covering religion and philosophy, history, foreign languages, literature and art. The sale will be in room 116 Memorial Library, 728 State St.
A preview sale ($5 admission) will be held 5-9 p.m., Wednesday, Oct. 17. The regular sale, open to the public at no charge, will be 10:30 a.m.-7 p.m., Thursday and Friday, Oct. 18-19.
On Saturday, Oct. 20, from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m., bring your own grocery bag and fill it for $2. For more information, contact the Friends at (608) 265-2505 or email: Friends@library.wisc.edu.
