We’re So Glad You’re Here! Friends Groups are integral to sustaining BPL's creativity and energy. Your support and advocacy ensures neighborhood libraries have essential funds to purchase program supplies and care for well-tread spaces. Above all, you help educate your community about BPL, so that more people can benefit from our diverse resources and services.
Friends of Brooklyn Public Library support their local branch in many ways. They support their library through advocacy, increasing community awareness, raising funds and helping at special events. Friends host monthly meetings and events, including book and bake sales, author talks and readings, holiday events and much more!
Want to become a Friend? Visit your local branch and talk to a library staff member or join us at one of our upcoming events!
Upcoming Events
Friends Group Recruitment Tabling
Please stop by the branch and learn more about the Friends Group program at BPL as we start our recruitment efforts for a Friends group at DeKalb Library!
Friends of Adams Street Library Monthly Meeting
Looking to be more involved in your local DUMBO community? Friends of Adams Street Library is a low-commitment, high-impact way of supporting your local branch and giving back to your community. Our Friends support the library by:
Advocating for the library;Promoting community awareness of…
Friends of Williamsburgh Library Game Night
Play board games with your neighbors. Win prizes from local businesses. Sponsored by the Friends of Williamsburgh Library.
More information to come.
Friends of Greenpoint Library Meeting
Have ideas on how to make the branch a better place? Want to support the branch through advocacy and fundraising? Come and join the Friends of Greenpoint Library and help us plan and support our upcoming events! Bring your time and talent, and ideas, too. All are welcome to join!
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Friends of Clinton Hill Library Repair Cafe
Join the Friends of Clinton Hill Library for their first Repair Cafe. A variety of different repair volunteers will be present. No technology, welding, or power saw repairs.
For more information or to volunteer, please email: clintonhillrepaircafe@gmail.com .
Friends of Greenpoint Library Meeting
Have ideas on how to make the branch a better place? Want to support the branch through advocacy and fundraising? Come and join the Friends of Greenpoint Library and help us plan and support our upcoming events! Bring your time and talent, and ideas, too. All are welcome to join!
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Friends of Clinton Hill Library Gardener's Exchange
Garden season is in full swing! Drop by the Gardener’s Exchange to find donated garden tools, cuttings, seeds/bulbs, supports, gloves, fertilizer, planters, plants and more for your garden. Have too many? Bring them to the Exchange where other gardeners may find use for them. Tools and planters…
Resources for Friends
Handbook and Forms
- Friends Handbook (.pdf)
- Code of Conduct: Color or B&W (.pdf)
- Sign-in Sheet: Color or B&W (.pdf)
- 2026 In-Kind Donation Form (.pdf)
Example Fliers
- Bake Sale Flyer One (.docx)
- Bake Sale Flyer Two (.docx)
- Book Sale Flyer One (.docx)
- Book Sale Flyer Two (.docx)
Useful Websites
Join the Conversation on Facebook:
BPL Friends Facebook Group
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