Supporting Ferndale's Library
The Friends of the Ferndale Library is an organization dedicated to promoting and supporting the Ferndale Area District Library.
We sponsor cultural, artistic, and educational program at the library and provide funds for special collections and library services.
Donate to help support our mission!
Upcoming Meetings
We meet on the third Monday of the month at 6:30p at the Ferndale Area District Library! Join and help plan fundraising events and discuss other ways of supporting our library.
Find us at our next meetings:
April 20*
May 18
June 15
*at Jim’s Community Corner
Friends Events
Meet us at the Finish Line of Ferndale Reads
Celebrate the end of Ferndale Reads at our Finish Line Party on April 11th at 1pm! Enjoy pizza provided by Como’s while we select raffle winners of each of our categories of Readathon 5k, Fun-Run, and Bookstore Passport!
Winners will receive prizes from John King books, Love and Other Books, the Library Bookstore, Whistler’s Daughter, and our own Friend’s Bookstore.
Whether you read one page, 5,000 pages, visited one bookstore or just want to hang out with fellow book lovers, we hope to see you at the Finish Line!
Merry Giftmas
It’s that time again! Every year we ask staff from each department to put together a wish list of items they want for the Ferndale Library and then give them a gift a day for the 12 days leading up to Christmas.
These gifts range anywhere from books, to items for the library of things, to items that help the staff do their jobs easier. Follow along to see what we are gifting them this year!
Everyone who uses the library is a Friend!
We work to support the Ferndale library’s mission of bringing the community together through entertainment, information, arts, and culture.
What we do...
Sponsor cultural, artistic, and
educational programs at the library
Sell donated books and DVDs, as well as our own swag in the Friends Bookstore
Provide funds for special collections
and library services
...and what we've done so far!
- Sponsored the Summer Reading Kickoff which included a Beatles cover singer, taco trucks, and ice cream trucks
with free food for the attendees
- Sponsored First Stop Fridays and Summer Concert Series,
like Theatre Bizarre Orchestra
- Gave away free books, crafts and toys to over
170 kids at the Ferndale Fall Festival
Sorted and sold hundreds of donated books and DVDs in the Friends Bookstore
Paid for BookPage subscription, which the library gives free to patrons
Provided gifts for the library requested by the librarians
through our 12 Days of GIFTSmas celebration in 2023Check out the video here to hear Friends president Ed Burns
talk through our excitement to give back to the library, and the community,
as we rounded out the year! Then scroll through this page to see what we bought
Created an online cookbook of Friends’ favorite recipes which you can check out by clicking here.
We hope you’ll try some of the recipes, and let us know how they came out.
