Donation Opportunities
Thank you for your interest in donation opportunities. Please find out more information below.
The Friends of the Southbury Public Library are accepting donations for future book sales to raise funds for library programs and services to benefit the community. The Friends’ Donation Center is located at their new space, generously donated by Gatto Development Corporation, in the Southbury Plaza between Catalyst Gym and The Paper Store. The Center is open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m., and Wednesdays from 5 to 7 p.m.
Items accepted include gently-used hardcover, softcover, and paperback books in all genres, both fiction and nonfiction, for adults, teens, and children. The Friends also accept DVDs, music CDs, vinyl records, audiobooks on CD, jigsaw puzzles, and games. Donation receipts for tax purposes are available.
The Center will be closed from December 13 to January 6, and will resume regular hours on January 7. The closing will give the Friends volunteers a much needed break, and will accommodate increased holiday traffic at the Plaza. If you're donating items to the Friends, we ask you not to leave items outside when the Donation Center is closed.
The floods of August 18-19, 2024, completely destroyed the entire Friends’ inventory of material collected in the past year from generous donors. The Friends are extremely grateful to all those in the community, the surrounding towns, and even out of state, who have so generously donated books and other materials. The success of past sales allows us to continue to fund almost all programs offered by the library.
For more information about the Friends of the Southbury Public Library, please contact Book Sale Chairman John Michaels at 203-525-0199, or Jeff O’Sullivan, President, at 203-578-5988.
Monetary donations enable us to provide and enhance services above and beyond what we can typically offer and are greatly appreciated by the Southbury Public Library staff and board. If you’re interested in making a memorial or honorary contribution, please speak to our Head Librarian Heather Aronson at 203-262-0626 x140 or at haronson@biblio.org.
For adults interested in volunteering, we have individual volunteer opportunities available along with membership in our Friends of the Southbury Public Library group. In addition to funding most of our programing, our wonderful Friends group is also responsible for their annual lower level book sale. Find out more about them here.
Pillars of the Community
| Large Meeting Room | $400,000 | Frederick B. Kingsley |
| Genealogy Corner | $130,000 | Janet A. Mann |
| Reading Room | $100,000 |
Jewish Communities of Western, Ct, Inc. in honor of the Brinker Family |
| Art Gallery | $75,000 | Gloria L. Cachion |
| Circulation Desk | $75,000 | Lu Burke |
| Young Adult Area | $50,000 | Helen Lieber |
| Children's Circulation Desk | $45,000 | Josephine M. Smith |
| Recording Studio | $45,000 | Southbury Lion's Club |
| Reference Desk | $40,000 | Roger R. Clisham |
| Storytime and Arts & Crafts Area | $35,000 | George A. Tomey |
| Reading Terrace | $35,000 | Shirley and John Michaels |
| Conference Room | $30,000 | Eugene and Margaret Brown |
| Technology Area | $25,000 | Southbury Business Association |
| Study Area | $25,000 | James Norris |
Major Gifts
Gold Level
Polly O. Camp
Inez T. Clark
Joan Ermish
Jeanne C. Hughes
Wayne and Betty McCormack
John and Shirley Michaels
Aldona Michlein
Walter and Ellen Torrance
Silver Level
The American Legion - Lieut. C. Edward Hine - Post 147
Elizabeth H. Andersen
Nina E. Andersen
Bill and Judy Bassett
Christine and John R. Curtis, Jr.
Mary Alice Dressel
The Suzanne Bethoux Ettenberg Trust
Virginia P. Fabiani
Friends of the Southbury Library
Gager, Emerson, Rickart, Bower, and Scalzo, LLP
Len and Janie Garille
The Handelman Family
Robert and Elaine Holley
Estate of Gladys F. Hubbard
Ion Bank
In Memory of Beth Kempf
Ken and Evelyn Kerin
Kernan and Henry, LLP
Charles L. Kerstein In Memory of Anna
Benton R. and Dorothy B. Leach
John and Ginny Middleton
The Estate of Ellen B. Ritt
In Memory of Joseph Patrick Shanahan II
Bea Tappe
John and Maura Tobin
Union Savings Bank Southbury Branch
2004 Donors
Harmon and Doris Andrews
Dr. Edward C. and June Atwood
John and Nancy Brackett
Arthur Brieger and Mary Ellen Olcott
Don and Caroline Briggs
Joseph and Marion Coulon
Anonymous
Gloria DiPietro-Cooper
Larry and Cheryl Ernst
ExxonMobil Coporation
Marvin A. and Johnnie H. Foxworth
A Friend
In Memory of Gail A. Gracy
H.H. Stone and Sons, Inc.
Hale's Woodland Gardens
Richard (Dick) and Margaret Hill
Hine Bros., Inc.
Hine Family in Memory of Irene Hine
The Estate of Dorothy Karr Hoffman
Dennis and Helena Jedlinksy
Joseph Bette Realtors, Inc.
Junior Friends of the Southbury Public Library
In Memory of Ed Kamerzel
The Karnasiewicz Family
Trudy Kelley
Gary and Carol Lazarus
Anita and Donald Liebeskind
The Estate of Dario A. Macchi
Jim and Ginny Marlor
William and Susan McAllister
McAllister's Rolling M. Ranch in Memory of William Sr. and Ann
Robert and Marie Meisel
Yvette A. Mickenberg
Alan and Jeannette Mittelsdorf
Munson Lovetere Funeral Home
Newtown Savings Bank
David Nyman Realtors
Hiram W. Peck, Jr.
Pfizer, Inc.
Dan and Doris Robinson
In Memory of Jim Rousmaniere
In Memory of Gavin and Steven Schneider
W. Fielding Secor and Judy Godburn Secor
Vincent and Rachel Sinopoli
Southbury Printing Centre
The Raymond and Margaret Stabile Family
Donald and Sada Stewart
Thomas and Lynn Sutnik
Dr. Gene J. and Helen C. Tito
Austin and Nancy Tobin
Union Savings Bank
Mark and Marilyn Vida
Shirley Gleason Vitale
John N. and Leslie Ann D. Wallace
Ronald and Pamela Webb
Joan and Bill Wildman
Susan Wolff
Shirley M. Zeiner
Brick by Brick
Our new library was built brick by brick, funded in no small part by individual contributions to our more than decade long Commemorative Brick Paving Stone Fundraiser. Today, these bricks are located in our Memorial Courtyard and Gardens around the flagpole and alongside the patio next to the entrance of the library.
