By Colin Williams / Staff Writer

As the school year is coming to a close, it’s also time for students to clean house, namely with their furniture and other items. Naturally, because many students come from out of state they may have a hard time transferring furniture back to their home. However the MVC Murrell Library has a solution for those students, and that is a garage sale. 

Students can donate furniture, appliances and any other items they can not travel with to the library. Then, in turn the library will hold a sale when the semester begins so that new or returning students will have a chance to have furniture or supplies of their own for their dorms. It is even open to the community in Marshall

Library Director Samantha Perkins, goes into more detail about the project.

“The Bridge did something similar to this last year, with the trailer parked out by the dorms,” Perkins said. “So we hatched this plan together of making the library as the donation place, and the garage sale in August will be held here.”

Perkins also mentioned that it was eLearning and Outreach Coordinator, Sarah Haug, who authored the idea of having the Library join forces with The Bridge Ministry. She also gave her reasoning for this idea.

“Just seeing all the really useful items that were thrown into the trash, that were just going to go to the landfill,” Haug said. “When I knew community members would want to buy those or future students when they come back in the fall, would want to buy those to have them be reused in dorm rooms.”

Library Circulation Services and Professor Bathesheba Love, spoke to what the future would look like for this event.

“I really think Ms. Perkins will see how it goes and then we will go from there,” Love said.