Friends of Seaside Library

in Seaside, California

Next Friends’ Monthly Meeting

Our next meeting will be on the Saturday of August 22, 2026 at 3 pm in the Emerson Community Room of the Seaside Library. All Friends and wannabe Friends of the Seaside Library are welcome. (Please note that although at the end of the last Friends’ meeting, we had initially decided to meet at a different date, the date has changed to August 22 in order to accommodate more people's schedules due to interference with Car Week (and I thought books were more important than cars! :-).

You can get more information about us by clicking here.

Tech Help at the Library

In-person technical assistance with your phone, table, computer, internet search, email set-up and basic computer navigation.

Books on Sale!

Books, DVDs and other media which have been donated to the Friends of Seaside Library are on sale in the front lobby of the Seaside Library, on your immediate right as you enter from the outside through the front door. This is an easy way to donate to the Friends, as all proceeds support the Seaside Library's activities, including the Summer Reading program. Here is the price list (please note that children's books are half the price of adult books):

Books & DVDs for the Discerning Collector

Shown below are some of the higher-value items that the Friends are currently selling to raise funds for the library. These consist of books and comic books as well as recently released DVDs. Prices are as marked. Please ask library staff for help if you'd like to purchase one or more of these items, as they are stored in their front-desk area.

The following DVDs and books can be purchased at the front desk of the Seaside Library:

DVD	DVD	DVD	DVD	Book (1st edition)
$11	$12	$13	$17	$25
Tron: Ares*	Trap House*	Sisu: Road to Revenge*	Send Help*	Job: A Comedy of Justice*

Book	Book	Book (1st U.S. edition)	Comic Book	Comic Book (Replica Edition 1999)
$16	$20	$27	$30	$50
1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History*	Wind and Truth: The Stormlight Archive Book Five*	Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince*	Justice League: Cry for Justice*	Giant Batman Annual #1: 1,001 Secrets of Batman and Robin*
* Click on any of the underlined titles to see the Wikipedia page for that item.

Book Donations...

We appreciate your thinking of the Seaside Library when donating items, but please do not leave donations outside the library.

We prefer that you talk to the staff of the Seaside Library, as space for donations is limited. We normally do not accept non-fiction items over ten years old or any item that is in bad condition (yellowed pages, mold, rips, writing on pages, etc.).

Step up to the Seaside Library!

A mural will be painted on the steps of the Seaside Library. You can read a news article by the Monterey County Weekly all about it.

Seaside Library Hours

Who We Are

As the “Friends of the Seaside Library” (legally known as the Friends of the Gordon R. Forrest Memorial Library, a 501(c)(3) charitable foundation), we are a dedicated volunteer organization that supports the Gordon R. Forrest Memorial Library, a branch of the Monterey County Free Libraries (MCFL) in Seaside, California. Operating out of the Gordon R. Forrest Memorial Library at 550 Harcourt Avenue in Seaside, we fund library programming, run community events, and host book sales—all at the Seaside Library!

Our Mission Statement

Because we value its rich services, the Friends of the Seaside Library support the Gordon R. Forrest Memorial Library in meeting the current and future needs of our community by providing advocacy, funding, resources, and volunteers.

For More Information

You can get involved or learn about upcoming volunteer opportunities and events by:

• Visiting this website regularly.
• Checking the Seaside Branch Library Events Calendar for upcoming programming, which includes more events than are listed above.
• Contacting the Friends directly by emailing us at Friends of Seaside Library (FriendsSeasideLibrary@gmail.com).

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