Past News

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!

Pretty much everything! If you haven’t browsed our expanded shelves in the Thousand Oaks Library lately, you might not know what you’re missing. For starters, we’ve combined fiction into one single fabulous category, so if you’re looking, say, for James Patterson, you’ll find all his books—mass market,

Don’t miss the Friends of the Library’s Back to School pop-up used book sale on Saturday, August 17th from 10-2 at the Newbury Park Library! We’ll feature a huge collection of children’s books, parenting, teaching, and learning books, adult fiction and nonfiction, Hollywood and history, and much,

Get ready for summer with the Friends of the Library’s pop-up book sale on Saturday, May 11th at the Newbury Park Library! We’ll feature a huge collection of adult fiction for your beach and vacation reading, craft books to help you get creative, cookbooks to change up

For book lovers, there’s no place like the LA Times Festival of Books. It’s one of the most significant literary events in the country—two days of celebrity authors, publishers, poetry readings, panel discussions, cooking demos, children’s activities and, a variety of food vendors. But if you’ve attended

February is probably best known for Valentine’s Day and winter weather, but it’s fabulous for other reasons, too. There’s Black History Month, Presidents’ Day, and the Dr. Seuss Read Across America event, for starters. And we are celebrating with one of our awesome pop-up sales! The Celebrate

This year’s One City, One Book program is launched! This year’s title is Robert Kurson’s Rocket Men, which tells the story of the people and science behind the Apollo 8 mission, set against the tumultuous cultural and political background of the sixties. It’s an exciting read, and

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 an advent book calendar! The idea behind a book calendar is simple—you wrap

The Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library will hold a one-day used book sale on Saturday, December 1st, from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm at the Newbury Park Library. The sale will feature gift-quality (like new) books for children, young adults, and adults, in addition to early

Reserve your seats now for the hottest ticket (and last bus trip!) of 2018: the Friends’ cultural bus tour of the Grammy Museum! On Saturday, December 8th, join us for an unforgettable day of music, music history, culture and more! Explore such exhibits as Culture Shock, which