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color=#0000ff size=2>Here is what the official policy is at Mid-Continent
Library. (I have done a bit of work up there and know the IT Manager whose
wife works in the cataloging section.):</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><FONT size=2>We'll take any books that people want to donate. It's our policy
that we</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>don't turn away any books. We try to use every book we get. If
we can't</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>use them we'll try other library systems. We do everything we
can so we</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=2>don't just have to dispose of them.</FONT></P>
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<P><SPAN class=734331916-02042007><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>So take
the books up there to them.</FONT></SPAN></P></SPAN></DIV><BR>
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<FONT face=Tahoma size=2><B>From:</B> kclug-bounces@kclug.org
[mailto:kclug-bounces@kclug.org] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>cragos@gmail.com<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, April 02, 2007 10:57
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Jonathan Hutchins; kclug@kclug.org<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Old
Computer Book Recycling?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>>> If you go down to the Mid-Continent library administrative
offices on 24<BR>>> hwy in Independence you can donate them to the
library and they will<BR>>> give you a receipt to use as a charitable
donation on your taxes. <BR><BR>>Pretty much any library will accept
donations. Most are simply landfilled,<BR>>but some are sold at
annual book sales or on carts in the library. It costs<BR>>too much
for the library to process a donated book to make it worth taking <BR>>them
into the collection; purchased books come with a lot of the
necessary<BR>>pre-processing already done.<BR><BR>Hopefully they do recycle
them. To answer the initial question, it is possible to recycle the
paper in these books. I believe they can take such material at the city
drop off points: <BR><A
href="http://www.kcmo.org/pubworks.nsf/web/recycledropoff?opendocument">http://www.kcmo.org/pubworks.nsf/web/recycledropoff?opendocument</A><BR><BR>There's
one at Metro North Mall that I use that I'm all but certain could take it.
<BR><BR>Hope this helps,<BR>Sean Crago/MrZaius<BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>