Note that due to construction work in the rear parking lot, we can not accept donations until Friday, October 10th. 

Location:

Santa Rosa Veterans Memorial Building
1351 Maple Ave, Santa Rosa, CA 95404

Event Dates:

1. Friday, October 3rd, 2025 – 1:00 pm to 3:00 pm Members only Preview   3:00pm – 7:00 pm Open to the public
2. Saturday, October 4th, 2025 – 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
3. Sunday, October 5th, 2025 – 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – 1/2 price day
4. Monday, October 6th, 2025 – 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm – Bag Day $5 /bag

Book and Media Donations:

We gratefully accept donations of gently used books, CDs, DVDs, and other saleable media ranging from sheet music to jigsaw puzzles. We especially appreciate scholarly, fine press, fine art, and recently released titles.

Please note that we can no longer accept the following:

• Torn, soiled, stained, musty, smoky, or otherwise damaged items
• Excessively annotated, underlined, or highlighted items
• Library discards
• Out-of-date materials such as most textbooks, encyclopedias, computer guides, legal and medical books
• Reader’s Digest condensed books
• Magazines
• Vinyl records, VHS tapes, cassettes, home-made recordings, and dubbings of any kind

Donation Drop-Offs:

Donations may be dropped off in the designated area near the service entrance at the back of the downtown Central Santa Rosa Library, 211 E Street (between 3rd and 4th Streets). If you are driving, please follow the steps below:

• Enter the parking lot behind the library from 3rd Street (west of the library).
• Pull up to the corridor at the middle of the loading dock.
• Donations accepted Monday through Friday, 10 am-4 pm, except holidays. Tax receipts are available inside.
• Please contact us in advance if you have more than 5 boxes, or if you need help with your donation.
• Email us if you have questions at srfriends@sonomalibrary.org.

Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have questions about the suitability of your donations. We are always looking for saleable materials, and there are some exceptions to our general guidelines. Please be mindful that many non-saleable books and other materials may be recycled in your blue bin, including paperback books and most magazines. Regrettably, most hardcover books are not recyclable, unless their covers are removed. Contact your local refuse company for more information (in Santa Rosa: Recology Sonoma Marin at 800-243-0291).