Friends of the
beverly hills public library

Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library is a non-profit organization that helps support the service and programs of the Beverly Hills Public Library. The library has won many awards and repeated national recognition.

Friends raises funds and sponsors activities that supplement, enhance, and enrich the library's collections and programs. 

Friends membership fees, Book Store revenues and donations provide many of the library's best loved and most needed resources.

Please join us. We can't do it without you. 

 About us

The Friends of the Beverly Hills Library is about much more than just books.

The library’s membership and resources are enjoyed by residents from the entire Los Angeles area.

Friends was formed in 1958 to enhance the Library’s services and has made substantial contributions to the Library’s collections and programs.

Among the most recent programs funded by Friends are:

• Providing money for books, digital media and informational systems

• Commissioning artwork that makes the library a stimulating, inviting place to be

• Funding a Summer Reading Club that serves about 1,000 children each year

• Supporting a Teen Zone where kids enjoy books, games, and companionship year-round

• Sponsoring a popular book club

• Delivering books to the homebound. For homebound delivery, please call 310-288-2264

• Underwriting a program to help preserve local history

• Raising money through membership, the sale of donated merchandise, financial donations and tributes

Donations

For your convenience you may make your donation to the Friends by clicking below. If you are donating through PayPal please note in the comments if it is a membership donation and what level, or if a Tribute donation who it is for.

Click here for a printable copy of this Membership form.

Enclose your check (payable to Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library) and mail to:

The Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library Donations
444 N. Rexford Drive
Beverly Hills, California 90210-4877

I want to support the Friends of the Beverly Hills Public Library at the following Member levels:

• Individual $50

• Family $100

• Sponsor $250

• Benefactor $500

• Circle of Friends $1,000

To make a tribute, print the Tribute Fund form and mail to the address above, For gifts of $35 or more we offer a Tribute book acknowledgement in the subject area of your choice inscribed with your honoree's name. You and the designated recipient will be informed of the specific title after purchase.

The Friends oversee an Endowment Fund that benefits collections and programs within the Library. All funds are invested in safe and secure monetary institutions that generate interest to be used for future library needs. The donor may request the funds be utilized in a specific area or leave the decision to the Friends Board of Directors. 

Endowments have benefited music collections, fine arts lectures, children’s art programs and the computer lab.

If you have any questions, please email us at beafriendbh@gmail.com. Many gifts of this nature are tax deductible, please check with your tax advisor for verification. 

Your donation is greatly appreciated.

THE FRIENDS BOOK STORE

Our Collection

The Friends Book Store is unique. Every item in the Store is donated. Some donations are the product of periodic clutter control or annual house cleaning. Others come from estates, including superb performance arts collections from the personal libraries of local entertainment luminaries. We receive shipments daily from generous donors. Many of our items are brand new or gently used in excellent condition. As a nonprofit (5013c), the money we receive is used to support library community literacy programs.

Our diverse holdings include numerous genres:

If you would like to volunteer in our store please email us at beafriendbh@gmail.com

BOOK GROUP

Special events

Board of directors

Officers

Mallory Lee
President
Lisa Engelman
1st Vice President
Michelle Redston
2nd Vice President
Shelly Lucky
3rd Vice President
Melissa Stein
Treasurer                
Cindy Trost
Recording Secretary
Helene Harris
Corresponding Secretary

Directors

Fran Behrstock
Trisha Bodaghi
Simone Friedman
Jodi Galen
Jeanne Herman
Linda Jankowski
Marilyn Landau
Margaret Levy
Virginia Maas
Gail Millan
Kathi Rothner Stephanie Rund
Judy Samson
Cynthia Shafto
Sandra Walder

Proposed New Directors

Amy Wolken
Hope Anita Smith
Sylvia Fogelman
Gina Seidel
Maria Morrison
Abby Robyn
Joyce Levine
Karyn Newman
Michele Gabai

Past Presidents: Active

Monique Maas Gibbons
Lori Goldman
Ann Golenternek
Charlotte Hill-Skura
Barbara Linder
Jean Rosenblatt