Most of the donations a library receives are either a) books the library already has multiple copies of, b) books that don't meet the library's needs (for a public library, these include old textbooks, outdated encyclopedias, and Reader's Digest Condensed Books, among others), or c) in bad enough physical condition that they're not worth the processing.
The only time I ever added more than 10% of a donation session to the library was when we got sixty boxes of books from a woman who was going into assisted living. Her boxes were full of mint-condition pictorials and natural history books from around the world (I envied her the traveling she must have done to acquire such a collection). Those boxes were like a combination of Christmas and Aladdin's cave, and I will never see their like again.
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Date: 2009-01-03 05:40 am (UTC)The only time I ever added more than 10% of a donation session to the library was when we got sixty boxes of books from a woman who was going into assisted living. Her boxes were full of mint-condition pictorials and natural history books from around the world (I envied her the traveling she must have done to acquire such a collection). Those boxes were like a combination of Christmas and Aladdin's cave, and I will never see their like again.