If you are considering a very large donation that might overwhelm our available workspace, please email us to make special arrangements. It is not possible for the Friends or the Library to pick up donations from the general public. If necessary to donate at other days and times, you could drop them off at the library, 400 Johnson St., but if you do, we must then transport them to the storage unit which takes extra time and manpower. Where to drop donated books and other material?ĭonations are gratefully accepted at our storage unit:

Please note that we do not return containers and we reserve the right to determine whether or not to accept the donation. Very often people leave things in books and forget about them - important things like receipts with banking numbers, personal photographs, greeting cards with handwritten messages, and even cash. Sorters won’t take the time to remove them and will discard the book.įinally, before you donate a book, hold on to the spine and shake each book gently. Please remove any post-it notes or sticky tabs from the book. Please note: For legal reasons, we do not accept homemade copies of any type of media or commercial software that is not packaged with a book. Softcover books with crooked or twisted spines You can help! Use these guidelines to sort, weed and discard inappropriate materials before donating to the Friends (or any other nonprofit).Ĭondition matters! Please DO NOT donate books in the following condition(s):Įxcessive Writing, Markings, or Highlighting

We don't like to think that we have limits, but some items are simply not appealing to the Friends' Book Sale clientele for a variety of reasons, and all donations require volunteer time to sort and box as well as space to store - all of which are precious resources, always in short supply. Here are a few pointers about what NOT to donate.

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