Here's what our staff and volunteers do with your donations:
- Set aside new books to be considered for our collection
- Organize, box and store all the high quality materials for our next book sale
- Recycle/throw away items that are too old, damaged or otherwise not salable
- Box the remainders for shipping to an online book seller
What to Donate
- Hardcover and softcover books—clean and in good condition
- DVDs
- Audio books
- Music CDs
- Special Collections
When We Accept Donations
- We accept donations by appointment during open library hours. No appointment required for less than three boxes/bags.
- Please, no more than five bags/boxes per week.
- Please use non-returnable containers that don't weigh more than 40 lbs.
Some Items We Cannot Accept:
- For health reasons, we cannot accept moldy, water damaged, or rodent damage items.
- Textbooks, magazines, encyclopedias, computer manuals, outdated instruction books, dictionaries or thesauri.
- Audio cassettes, VHS tapes or LP records
- Sample, copied or incomplete CD/DVD sets
What to Do with Items We Will Not Accept:
Discard
- Moldy, water or rodent damaged materials; these are a health hazard for our volunteers
- Personally recorded items including "burned" or copied digital materials
- Incomplete DVDs, music CDs, audiobooks
Recycle (e.g., charities, county/city/private recycling)
- Activity books, workbooks
- Annuals, yearbooks
- Audio cassettes, VHS tapes, LP records
- Books in poor condition
- Books published by magazines (e.g., Reader’s Digest, Time-Life Books)
- Computer software and manuals
- Directories, telephone books
- Encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri
- Free, examination or advanced reading copies
- Journals, newspapers, magazines
- Law books and related
- Print materials in languages other than English or Spanish
