Donate your gently-used books without leaving your car - It's as easy as 1 - 2 - 3!
1.) Load up your car with book donations
2.) Drive to the Drop Off Area
3.) Friends’ volunteers will take your books
The Drop Off area is in the parking lot on High Street, between Post Office and Miceli’s Furniture, near entrance to Wilcox Park.
We accept donations of clean hardback and paperback books in good condition and from all genres.
We don’t take smelly or stained books, magazines, textbooks, or Reader’s Digest books.
Book donations will be sold at the Friends' annual book sale with proceeds benefitting Westerly Library & Wilcox Park.
The Friends of the Westerly Library Library recently purchased new plastic bins to preserve, store and transport our used book inventory. The new bins will help our volunteers categorize and sort donated books. In addition, moving books will be easier with rolling bases for stacks of bins. Things are looking up in our basement storage area!
Donations of all genres of books (hardcover & paperback) in good condition are accepted. Simply bring donations to the Circulation Desk at the library. Magazines, VHS tapes, textbooks, or Readers' Digest books are not accepted. Donated books are sold at our annual book sale in October. All proceeds help fund projects in the library & park.
To everyone who volunteered, browsed or shopped at our annual Book Sale or Sip & Shop event - We are grateful for your support.
The 2025 Annual Friends' Book Sale raised nearly $9,000 selling gently-used books of all genres - fiction, non-fiction, children's, tweens, young adult, history, self-help, thrillers & more. Proceeds from the sale will go towards supporting programs at the Westerly Library and Wilcox Park.
The Friends of Westerly Library & Wilcox Park hosted an event featuring a conversation between Friends' member, Mary Weiss, and Patricia Walsh Chadwick, author of Breaking Glass: Tales from the Witch of Wall Street.
Wilcox Park's Runaway Bunny recently needed some upgrades to its surroundings for the safety of those enjoying a visit with the bunny and for easy maintenance.
Little Libraries are located throughout our community offering residents of all ages access to books within their own neighborhoods. We are proud to install and stock these local gems.
The Friends of Westerly Library & Wilcox Park donated an outside book return box offering the convenience of 24/7 book returns to all library patrons.