47th annual AAUW State College Branch book sale slated for weekend

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This year's AAUW State College Branch Used Book Sale will be held Saturday, May 10, through Tuesday, May 13, at the Snider Agricultural Arena on Penn State's University Park campus. The doors will open at 9 a.m. and close at 9 p.m. daily.

This year marks the 47th annual sale organized and financed by the State College Branch of the American Association of University Women, an organization dedicated to promoting equity and education for women and girls. The proceeds benefit scholarship funds and educational projects in Centre County and at the national level.

About 4,000 boxes of books priced to sell are ready for move-in Friday evening. About 200,000 books have been sorted into 26 categories, from paperbacks to arts to science and engineering to fiction to travel.

 Monday, May 12, is Half-Price Day and Tuesday, May 13, is Bag Day, during which patrons will be able to buy a plastic bag,  supplied by AAUW , of books for $5.

The Special Collectors Room features books of particular value priced over $20 each. A price list of these books is available on the AAUW State College Branch Web site at http://www.AAUWStateCollege.org . There will be no pre-sales of these books. All will be available from 9 a.m. Saturday until they are sold or until the end of Half-Price Day, whichever comes first. The Special Collectors Room will be closed on Bag Day.

The collectors table on the floor of the Ag Arena also offer books published before 1950 for reasonable prices.

The AAUW State College Branch has partnered with the Penn State Chapter of the Collegiate FFA for the past two years to work throughout the year to collect, cull, sort and price the books. In addition to members and other community volunteers, students from the Delta Program of the State College Area School District and from Penn State's Navy ROTC program lend their muscle on move-in night.

The book sale is also a recycling effort. Books not salable are recycled, saving space in the landfills.

For a complete list of the 26 categories of books available at the sale, a "map" of the tables in the Ag Arena, the list of Special Collectors Books and more, visit the Web site at http://www.AAUWStateCollege.org.

For photos from the event set-up, check Penn State Live at http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/1674