Diane Haupt, the ‘book whisperer’ and a volunteer with the Agoura Hills Friends of the Library, keeps a circle of book joy going as she processes donations, finds beloved books and sell…
Books available to purchase at the Friends of the Library Book Cellar in Agoura Hills on Tuesday, March 22, 2022.
Volunteer, Greg Cox, sorts through CD’s and DVD’s at the Friends of the Library Book Cellar in Agoura Hills on Tuesday, March 22, 2022. If you love books and love being around people who love books, you’ve come to the right place. Enjoy. The book whisperer thinks she may have a copy somewhere in the back storage area where newly donated books arrive to be sorted, and old ones that didn’t sell in a year depart to make space for them. They are given to an online retailer, who kicks back 35% of the sale price to Friends if a book sells.
She finds it on a back shelf next to a tall stack of books teetering on the edge of collapse. “Stay there, do not move,” she orders the other books. Like obedient children, they heed the book whisperer, and do not fall. “He clutched the book in his arms and hurried out,” says Eric Haupt, Diane’s husband and treasurer of Friends of the Library, which has raised more than $2.1 million dollars since 1987 to support this local library branch.
“People tell me we should push up our prices, but why?” Diane asks. “We’d sell less, not more. A dollar is the reason people keep coming back. It’s not like we have a lot of overhead to worry about. The space is free, the books are free, I’m working free, and the people working here are free. We just need to move the books, that’s the idea.”
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