Past News

To celebrate National Library Lovers’ month, Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library (FTOL), a nonprofit organization dedicated to enhancing the Thousand Oaks Library with support services and intellectual and cultural enrichment programs, invites the community to attend its free open house event on Saturday, Feb. 8, from

Love your library? Want to help support it? In addition to shopping the Friends’ Bookshops here’s a couple of other ways to help with almost no effort! Both Amazon and Ralphs have community giving programs which will contribute a percentage of your purchases to the charity of

The Board of the Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library have approved funds for the purchase of books for the library’s circulating collection, in memory of Sue Driver, Online Sales Coordinator, who passed away after a brief illness on August 4, 2018. Sue was a devoted volunteer

We’re looking for a few (or more) good books! If you’re Marie Kondo-izing or just planning your New Year’s purge, please consider donating your gently loved books, DVDs, and CDs to the Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library. You’ll get a receipt for tax purposes, and we’ll

Have you visited the Friends’ Bookshop in the Thousand Oaks or Newbury Park Libraries recently? If not, swing by at your very next opportunity, so you can see our new feature: special cart collections and the bonanza book bags! Our cart collections are carefully curated collections of

Advent calendars are a great way to help little ones count down the long wait to the holiday. But this year, consider a change from the stale-chocolate kind (oops, sorry, Trader Joe’s!) and try a advent book calendar. The idea behind a book calendar is simple—you wrap

The Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library will hold an Overstock Children’s Book Sale on Saturday, December 7th at the Thousand Oaks Library, from 10AM-12PM or while supplies last. The sale will feature a wide range of picture books, story books, middle grade chapter books, children’s classics,

The Friends of the Library will hold an Art, Craft, & Quilt Book Sale at the Newbury Park Library on Saturday, October 12th from 11AM-1PM. The sale is being held in connection with the Extreme Quilting Show at the Community Art Gallery; come and browse our selection

The Friends of the Library are holding their first Overstock Sale on Saturday, September 21st at the Grant Brimhall Library. This time, we’ve got an abundance of children’s picture books, middle grade chapter books, children’s classics and YA books, and we’re making them available at the unbelievable

Thanks to everyone who turned out to support the Friends’ Back to School Used Book Sale! The monies raised by these sales support the programs, materials, and technology that the library provides for the community. We couldn’t do it without you, and you showed up in droves!