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Perfect gift for teachers: We have reduced the prices of our beautiful 'book spines'!

If you're looking for a great year-end gift idea for your kids' teachers or organization leaders, check out our "book spines." These beautiful mini-plaques, designed to look like spines of books, are engraved or hand-lettered with a name or message of your choice and mounted permanently on a library wall. 

Best news: For our 20th anniversary, we have – for a limited time – reduced the spine prices to $99.

Book spines come in two styles: wood and ceramic. You can see both styles in the adult and children's wings of the Folsom Library. For a pdf order form and more information, click here. Or go to our "Bookspines" page from the tabs above.

The Friends of the Folsom Library 
We support literacy, culture and education for the Folsom community

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The Friends of the Folsom Library has one purpose: We advocate for and support the Folsom Public Library. 

In addition to thousands of volumes of books, the Folsom Library provides cultural activities and literacy-related programs for all ages – nearly all of them free. It is the Friends who donate money and time to make most of these programs possible.

Our fundraisers: We earn most of our money through our Booktique book store and three huge semi-annual book sales. Watch for new fundraisers this year!

Our contributions: Here is the short list: 
  • New computers for adult and children's areas (coming soon!)
  • The Summer Reading Program, which keeps kids reading while school is out
  • Furniture for the Teen Room and the Large-Print Reading Area
  • Author visits
  • First Friday presentations
  • Brainfuse homework assistance
  • English as a second language materials
  • Global language materials
  • The library's self-checkout and security systems
  • After-school homework help 
  • Special programming for children and teens

Our greatest reward: the satisfaction of knowing we are supporting a vital resource in our community.

If you are as passionate about libraries and literacy as we are, support our efforts by joining today.

The Friends of the Folsom Library is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation, meaning your donations to us are tax-deductible (as allowable by law).

Library computers: A serious community need

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If you visit the Folsom Library any time of any day, you'll notice the bank of computers near the front entrance is nearly always filled. 

Computer access is one of the most important services the library provides. Our computers serve people who don't own computers, whose computers may not be working, or who may be traveling. They're particularly important for job-hunters and students with papers due (we provide lots of software). You can print your work (for a fee) or save it on a CD, and you have full, free Internet capability. 

Unfortunately, the computers are now old in computer years, they're slow and they do not support new versions of software. On Feb. 2, the Friends board voted unanimously to donate $28,000 toward the purchase of new public computers and software for the library. 

Now that we have made this large donation for computers, we will be fund-raising for the money to continue supporting other programs, such as Summer Reading. Watch this website and our Facebook page for information about our fundraisers. Join us in supporting this valuable community resource.