Old Computer Book Recycling?

[Phil Thayer]

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.):
 
We'll take any books that people want to donate. It's our policy that we

don't turn away any books. We try to use every book we get. If we can't

use them we'll try other library systems. We do everything we can so we

don't just have to dispose of them.

 

So take the books up there to them.


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	Subject: Re: Old Computer Book Recycling?
	
	
	>> If you go down to the Mid-Continent library administrative
offices on 24
	>> hwy in Independence you can donate them to the library and
they will
	>> give you a receipt to use as a charitable donation on your
taxes. 
	
	>Pretty much any library will accept donations.  Most are simply
landfilled,
	>but some are sold at annual book sales or on carts in the
library.  It costs
	>too much for the library to process a donated book to make it
worth taking 
	>them into the collection; purchased books come with a lot of
the necessary
	>pre-processing already done.
	
	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: 
	http://www.kcmo.org/pubworks.nsf/web/recycledropoff?opendocument
	
	There's one at Metro North Mall that I use that I'm all but
certain could take it. 
	
	Hope this helps,
	Sean Crago/MrZaius
	

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