A separate non-profit organization, the Friends of Cary Memorial Library, Inc. is dedicated to supplementing and enhancing library services. The Friends act as advocates for the library and its users. We are also part of a state-wide Friends library service organization lobbying government for support, i.e. MFOL (Massachusetts Friends Of Libraries)

Your Friends membership supports (and has supported):

• Passes to 13 museums:
  • Decordova Museum & Sculpture Park
  • Discovery Museums
  • Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society
  • The Museum at the John F. Kennedy Library
  • Museum of Fine Arts
  • Museum of Science
  • New England Aquarium
  • Peabody Essex Museum
  • Plimoth Plantation
  • Zoo New England (icluding the Franklin Park Zoo and the Stone Zoo
  • Institute of Contemporary Art
  • The Sports Museum
• Lectures and performances
• Enhanced Summer Reading program for children
• Community library newsletter
• Raising $100,000 to underwrite the Meeting/Conference room in the renovated building
• Volunteer services to library staff and patrons
• Additions to the adult book and audio visual collections

As a member you also will receive advance notice of 'members-only' hours at our fund-raising gently used book sales.

Membership is open to all! Call (781) 862-6288 x144 or email friends@carylibrary.org for additional information. Pick up a membership form in the library.