Friends of the Palo Alto Library

BOOK SALE: JAN 10-11, 2026

HOURSLOCATION
9:30AM–4PMBargain Room
11AM–4PMMain Room
10AM–4PMChildren’s Room
10AM–2PMMusic Popup
HOURSLOCATION
1–4PMALL ROOMS

Friends of the Palo Alto Library (FOPAL) is located at Cubberley Community Center, 4000 Middlefield Rd, Palo Alto, CA 94303.

We have three sale rooms — our Main Room, Bargain Room, and Children’s Room.


Friends of the Palo Alto Library’s annual grants to the Library are essential. Ensure the Library’s ongoing ability to enhance its lending collection and to offer all the wonderful programs and events that enrich our community with a tax-deductible gift


FOPAL is open for drop-off donations of up to 12 bags/boxes, most weeks on Monday-Friday, 3-5pm and Saturday 1-5pm at the Main Room, the portable by the tennis courts, using the Cubberley Community Center north entrance.

We gladly accept books, commercial CDs and DVDs, games, puzzles, and software. View our full list of what we can (and cannot) accept.

Donors will be greeted by a volunteer Donation Monitor and asked to place donations in FOPAL’s banker boxes and then move the books/boxes up the ramp to FOPAL’s Sorting Room. Volunteers there will help direct donors as to where to place the boxes and offer a receipt (and thanks).


Besides our monthly sales, we also sell select books, movies, and other media online on our eBay store, as well as music (CDs, LPs) on Discogs