Old Computer Book Recycling?

[Leo Mauler]

I know there are some very nice people working in
libraries.  My father has been working in a library
for 30 years.  One of the things which makes a
librarian very angry is to see someone else damage or
destroy a book, and one thing they have to do which
can make them very sad is to have to destroy or throw
out a book themselves.

Here I am with a load of books which are no longer
useful to anyone except very tiny niche collectors, so
by handing them off to a library I'm essentially
saying to a bunch of dedicated librarians "destroy
these books for me so I don't have to destroy them
myself."  I don't want that kind of guilt, so I was
thinking of recycling instead.

--- Phil Thayer <phil.thayer at vitalsite.com> wrote:

> 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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