Support Your Library
The Prince George Public Library is home to 61,494 cardholders and serves over approximately 1,000 people each day between two branches: Bob Harkins Branch, downtown, and Nechako Branch, in the Hart.
Your support helps PGPL connect people and ideas, inspiring the community to read, connect, and share.
Ways to Give
Attend a Fundraising Event
Give a Financial Gift
Your financial gift helps to enhance the library’s programs, collections and spaces. You may choose to direct your donation to one of the following areas.
For further details on the library’s policies regarding fund development, please visit our Policy Manual
Give in Honour of Someone
Your ‘In Honour’ donation is a heartfelt way to acknowledge or remember someone special. Give to the library’s area of greatest need, or choose to ‘Honour with Books’. With either option, a letter acknowledging your donation will be mailed to the individual or the family of the individual being honoured.
Honour with Books with a minimum donation of $25. A distinctive bookplate with the name of the person being honoured will be placed in a new book for every $25 donated. Unfortunately, we will not be able to place your bookplate in a specific book, but you may recommend a particular branch or area of the collection.
Give Your Time
Friends Of The Library
The Friends of the Library fundraise and advocate for the Prince George Public Library. The Friends host a semi-annual Book Sale, raising valuable funds to support library projects. For more information call Edel Toner-Rogala at 250-565-1836. Accepting new members.
Home Service
Deliver library materials to people who cannot visit our branches on a regular basis. Regular volunteers deliver materials for two hours every Thursday beginning at 10:00 am. Alternate volunteers fill in whenever a regular volunteer is unavailable. For more information contact the Community Outreach Librarian at 250-563-9251 ext. 119 or outreach@pgpl.ca.
Teen Volunteers Program
If you have opinions on how to make PGPL more friendly and welcoming to teens, and if you'd like to help us host teen events, the Teen Volunteers Program is for you! Recruitment takes place in fall of each year.
Give Books
The Prince George Public Library does not accept donations of books at either library branch, but may accept donations of undamaged, gently-used DVDs. To donate DVDs, please contact us at ask@pgpl.ca or 250-563-9251 ext. 100 to discuss your DVD donation. Please do not drop off DVD donations in library book return slots or at service desks without contacting us in advance.
If you have good-quality books that you would like to donate to the next book sale, please contact the Friends of the Prince George Public Library Receiving Officer, Alan Kavanaugh, at akavanaugh@telus.net. Please note that all books are subject to review by the Receiving Officer, and not all books will be accepted for inclusion in the sale.
Other organizations that accept used books include:
- Value Village
- Shoppers Drug Mart (proceeds go to the Elizabeth Fry Society and United Way)
- Prince George Hospice Resale Shops / Worth Repeating (maximum 4 boxes per day)
- Hospital Auxiliary Thrift Store
- Mission Thrift Store
- St. Vincent de Paul Society (appointment required)
In the case of small donations, there are Little Free Libraries located in many community neighbourhoods where a few books may be exchanged. Find a map of Little Free Libraries here.
Completed Capital Campaigns
For detailed information regarding the library's charitable status and lists of Registered Charity Information Returns, please visit the Canada Revenue Agency website.