Category: Friends News

We need volunteers this Saturday, Nov 6 to help Friends set up a DVD/CD sale in front of the Library. The sale is 2 hours long, from 10AM to 12PM.  We need help with: 

• Carry 4 tables to the front of the Library
• Push carts loaded with DVD/CDs to the front of the Library
• Keep things organized during the sale
• Carry tables back to the basement
• Take unsold DVDs/CDs to Exchange Zone at the Recycling Center

If you can help, please send an email to elcerritolibraryfriends@gmail.com to let us know and receive further instructions. 

Grace was a much loved and well known research librarian in the Contra Costa County Library System and worked for 25 years at the El Cerrito Library. She was both a long time Board member of the Friends of El Cerrito Library and Chair before stepping down early this year. She was one of the founding Board members of the El Cerrito Library Foundation. She guided Friends’ annual book sales and, with help of dedicated volunteers (for whom she had strong affection), raised funds for programming, books, and more for the El Cerrito Library. She personally donated generously to both Friends and Foundations fund raising efforts.

We at both the Friends and the Foundation will miss her gentle presence and voice at the Library and Board meetings, and her strong advocacy for all libraries. Thank you and rest in peace, eternal Grace. 

Grace MacNeill’s San Francisco Chronicle obituary, Oct 26, 2021