Buy or Donate Books
In-Person Book Sales
Spring Book Sale 2024: Completed!
Our Spring Book Sale resulted in over 10,000 donated books back out into the community and $5,100 raised! Thank you to all who attended and all who volunteered to make the sale a success!
Fall Book Sale 2024
Save the Date of October 16-20
Our Foundation Book Store
Shop new and nearly new books every day. Incredible deals to be had. Please come in and browse! Donated books are carefully curated by our volunteers to bring the best of the best to the shelves.
Buy Books Online
The Foundation’s incredible Bookselling volunteers list some of our donated books for sale on eBay and Amazon. Please visit our online stores and have a look around!
Children’s Pop Up Book Sales
Twice a year, in January and June, we hold “Children’s Only” Book Sales for one day only. Books are sorted into nine categories to aid browsers, and thousands of books are available.
To be added to our mailing list, please email us at info@burlingamelibraryfoundation.org.
Where Can I Donate Books?
If you are winnowing your home library, please consider donating your gently used books to the Burlingame Library Foundation.
Donation Drops are located at the Main Library in the employee parking area of the parking garage on Bellevue Avenue and in our Foundation Bookstore.
Thank you for your generous support of the Burlingame Library Foundation!
We LOVE your donations, BUT we cannot take:
- TORN OR FRAYED BOOKS
- ITEMS WITH MOLD OR MILDEW
- MAGAZINES
- ENCYCLOPEDIAS
- CASSETTE/VHS TAPES
- RECORDS
