About
Who We Are
The Friends of the Library are volunteers who believe excellent public libraries are a needed resource for our community. Volunteers demonstrate this by
- Becoming members, serving on the Board and Committees
- Sorting books donated for the Bookstore and Book Sale
- Organizing the annual Book Sale
- Staffing the Bookstore and workroom year-round
- Working on programs and events to promote reading
Since 1966, when the Friends of the Library began in Macon with twelve members, our organization has donated over two and a half million dollars to the Macon-Bibb County Libraries.
Mission Statement
The mission of the Friends of the Library is to support the Macon-Bibb County Libraries and the literacy effort in our community.
More than a half-century of accomplishments
Book sales, membership dues, and donations have funded
- Thousands of new adult titles
- Puppet theaters, puppets, films, audiovisual equipment, and books by the hundreds for our children’s departments
- Summer Reading programs
- Furniture and equipment in the library for special needs patrons
- Large print books
- Audiobooks
- The Georgia Author Collection, indexes, microfilm equipment, and the preservation of rare local documents for our Genealogical and Historical Room
- Microfilm and microfiche reader/printers and computers for reference and cataloging
- New Reader books at Washington Memorial Library to facilitate the Project Read Program
- Contribution of $50,000 to the Lanford Branch when it opened in 2008
- Contribution of scholarship funding for library employees pursuing ALA – accredited masters degrees
- Renovation of a portion of Library property in 2022 as a permanent Friends Bookstore at 5494 Forsyth Road
- Contribution of $100,000 since 2023 from the proceeds of two annual Book Sales and two years of Bookstore operations