Board of Directors

Bianca Chakiryan, President
Matt Berning, Vice President & Assistant Treasurer
Rachel Reynolds, Treasurer
Patricia Carlin, Secretary
Jenn Bildersee
Gloria Borg Olds
Jon Deitz
Bridget Donegan

Casey Gillespie
Carri Hutchens
Jamie Kranz
Gary Liberman
Joan Nelson
Michael Rasko
Dana Sally
Michaelene Wilcox

Click here if you are interested in serving on the Friends board.

Attention Portland book lovers: just one more week until the biggest Fall Used Book Sale we’ve ever had! 50,000+ books, incredibly low prices and all proceeds benefit the fantastic #MultnomahCountyLibrary! October 26-29 at the Lloyd Center DoubleTree. #pdx #portland #pdxevents #portlandoregon #usedbooks #bibliophile #bookstagram #booklover #bookhaul #booklust #bookish #book #readmore #supportyourlibrary #friendsofthelibrarypdx
It’s another #SpineTingling Wednesday and we have smoldering seas, barren ground and apocalyptic horsemen! #pdx #portland #bookspines #bookshelf #bookshelfie #shelfie #bookstagram #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #friendsofthelibrarypdx
It’s a fall palette this #MarbledMonday and we have #endpapers from an 1890 edition of The Natural Doctor; or the Mysteries of Nature Explained by H.P. Rasmussen. #pdx #portland #marbledpaper #antiquarianbooks #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #friendsofthelibrarypdx
This delightful hand-colored frontispiece is from a petite 1835 edition of The Little Botanist; Or Steps to the Attainment of Botanical Knowledge by Caroline A. Halstead. #pdx #portland #floralfriday #antiquarianbooks #seaweed #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #friendsofthelibrarypdx
Today’s #publishersbindingthursday is a detail from an 1859 edition of A Wonder-Book for Girls and Boys by Nathaniel Hawthorne. #pdx #portland #pegasus #antiquarianbooks #beautifulbooks #bookspines #bookspinebeauty #publishersbinding #iglibraries #librariesofinstagram #friendsofthelibrarypdx
For our second #SpineTingling entry in the October #librarychallenge, we present these hunting tomes. #pdx #portland #bookstagram #antiquarianbooks #shelfie #bookspines #beautifulbooks #librariesofinstagram #iglibraries #friendsofthelibrarypdx