Book Donation Dropoff May 23rd! The Friends are having another curbside book dropoff on Saturday May 23rd. There will be Friends staff outside to help unload and donate your books. ...... All genres are needed. This is one of our main routes of fundraising. Thank you again for supporting your community by supporting Friends of the Library!
Tok shelves are full! More will be added soon!
Newer book price increases - 2025 and 2026 hardbacks are now $7 and 25-26 paperbacks are $4. But we still have a majority of $1 hardbacks and tons of 50 cent paperbacks.
New - 2026 Annual FOL Membership Application 2026 FOL Membership Form Membership forms with payment may be mailed to "Friends of the Library, 130 N. Franklin St., Decatur, IL 62523" or brought into our Books & Beyond bookstore during business hours as listed in the letter.
FOL Phone Number - We have a phone number you can use to call us. Call the Friends at 217-421-9733.
Please join us on Wednesday, June 3, 2026, at 12:15 in the Decatur Public Library's Madden Auditorium for Books Between Bites.
Book: Sermon in Stone, published in 2024, commemorates the 100-year anniversary of the Chicago Temple, one of Chicago’s most distinguished downtown office buildings. Dedicated in September of 1924, the Chicago Temple houses, along with many private offices and businesses, the First United Methodist Church of Chicago. Sermon In Stone was written to mark this significant centennial observance. Its 169 pages, complete with more than 115 pages of photographs and reference materials, detail the history of the building and how it came to be.
Author and Presenter: David Foster, historian of the First United Methodist Church of Chicago, is a graduate of Western Illinois University, with advanced degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Chicago Theological Seminary. For many years, he was the curator of the geography research collection at Encyclopaedia Britannica and spent sixteen years with the General Board of Pension and Health Benefits of The United Methodist Church in a communications and socially responsible investing role. He chaired the Historian Task Force at the First United Methodist Church of Chicago and is the author of Sermon In Stone: The Story of the Chicago Temple.
Books Between Bites is a free program at the Decatur Public Library, sponsored by Friends of the Decatur Public Library
We have added a second book tok bookcase! No holds on these- first come first served. "You should go buy The House in the Cerulean Sea." ...... Bryan say it's excellent!
Book sales are on the main floor of the Decatur Public Library. Go in the main entrance, then go left to our bookstore. Hardback books are only $1,and paperbacks are 50 cents. 2025 and 2026 hardbacks are $7, and 2025 -2026 paperbacks are $4 Special books and other items are priced as marked
Sale Days and Times - Monday from 10:30am - 2:30pm
Tuesdays from 10:30am - 2:30pm
Thursdays from 3pm - 6:30pm
Saturdays sales are on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays every month from 9:30am - 12:30pm