Join the Community to Support Your Library!
The Friends of the Library (FOL), Ponte Vedra Beach, provide financial support for our local library. Through your $35 annual membership contribution, the Friends provide children and adult programs, materials, equipment, and community space for all residents to enjoy.
We are excited to announce that we are launching a Seymour’s Bookstore Facebook page!
Click on this Seymour’s Bookstore link and take a look! or paste https://www.facebook.com/SeymoursFOL into your browser…
We hope it is a fun place for you to connect online with your FOL friends and hope you find it helpful in your used book browsing.
Seymour’s bookstore is:
• A Friends of Library (FOL) bookstore operated by volunteers
• Located in the lobby of the Ponte Vedra Beach branch library
• Open 6 days a week (M-F 10:00 – 6:00, Saturday 10:00 – 4:00)
• Seymour’s proceed go to the FOL Ponte Vedra Beach to support the Ponte Vedra Beach branch library of the St. John’s County Library system.
• Friends of the Library provide children and adult programs, materials, equipment, community space for all residents to enjoy, and many other resources.
We are grateful for the continued commitment of the Friends of the Library members and patrons that make all our support of the library possible. If you are not already a member, please consider becoming a member by completing the form for that purpose available in the bookstore.
Seymour’s, the used bookstore at the Ponte Vedra Beach branch of the St. Johns County Library System, is open six days a week, Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The bookstore offers fiction, non-fiction, childen’s books, classics, DVDs, puzzles, and more at reasonable prices. Seymour’s is staffed by loyal volunteers who will help you find what you are looking for. All materials are donated by members of the community. The donation box is located inside the library lobby. For large donations, please stop by the store on either Tuesday or Thursday in the early afternoon and the store clerk will direct you to the donation drop off area. Please note that Seymour’s does not accept damaged materials, magazines, textbooks, dictionaries, or encyclopedias.
Your donations will serve the library, the bookstore and the community. The Friends of the Library has raised over a million dollars for the library in the last 25 years. This money was raised through memberships, book sales, and Seymour’s Bookstore. These funds have been used to build our community room, construct a new entrance to the library, purchase new furnishings, create a teen area, and buy computers for the children’s area. In addition, we provide each department of the library with an annual budget to purchase particular materials such as books, craft materials, games, software, or any item they might need for their children and adult programming. The FOL also provides the music and speaker series for the library which is free to the community.
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY SPEAKER SERIES
2024 FOL Speaker Series returns with with Nat Glover, elected as Florida’s first Black sheriff since Reconstruction
The FOL Speaker Series returns to the Ponte Vedra Beach Branch Library on Tuesday, September 17, with Nat Glover, elected as Florida’s first Black sheriff since Reconstruction. Glover will discuss his memoir, Striving for Justice: A Black Sheriff in the Deep South. He went on to be a mayoral candidate in 2003 and later served as the 29th President of his alma mater, Edward Waters University. Striving for Justice will be available for sale, and proceeds will help fund scholarships for need-based students through the “Where They Will Shine Scholarship Fund.”
The program is free and open to the public. The doors to the FOL Community Room open at 6:00 p.m. and the program begins at 6:30 p.m.
Meet The Board of Directors
If you love our library and are interested in joining our board, please contact Leslie Kleiman lekleiman@gmail.com
Leslie Kleiman, President
Laurie Kelly, Editor Check This Out
John Mencke, Treasurer
Estes Carns, Secretary
Jan Bialka
Jan Crewson, Library Support
Sally Fernley, Landscaping
Jennifer Hoag, Manager, Seymour’s Bookstore
Felicia Mashin, Publicity
Paula Nardon, Asst. Manager, Seymour’s Bookstore
Marianne Stein, Speaker Series
Sharon Van Hees, Art Wall