(Please note we are throwing away old books that no one is checking out or books that are too damaged to circulate) Edit: fixed typo
That’s got to be tough. Hope this means you can eventually order more that people have been requesting.
It does! We gotta clear space on the shelves sometimes for new books :)
God, libraries are cool
Doing difficult, noble work OP. Thank you for keeping local community resources running.
Oh, OP, what’s the most amusing damage you’ve ever seen?
My absolute favorite damaged return was a book covered in weird hardened-goopy pink material, named something like “wax casting for beginners”. Probably one of the only times I laughed at a damaged book.
Hahaha that is hilarious!!
Probably the time I had a book come back with the pages taped back together in a completely random order. Created a wild ride of a story lol
I love libraries and the people that work at them ♥️📙
My first gf was a librarian and 30-years later she’s the head librarian of a large, private university. One of only two people I’ve known that I’m certain are geniuses.
EDIT: Looked her up, not the head librarian, but one of the top. Also, that woman has had a wild academic career. Seems she partly transitioned to medicine and has many scientific papers under her belt. LOL, I feel like such a loser.
Do they sell them? My local library holds a book sale every so often (6 or 12 months, not sure). Books are usually $1 for a novel up to $3-4 for a textbook sized book. It’s always packed. Some people bring carts and fill them up with dozens of books.
The city I work in prohibits the selling or giving away of city property so we aren’t allowed to sell them (and truly most of the time they are so old and crusty and yucky that no one would pay any amount of money for them), but if the quality of books is super high we sneakily donate them to More Than Words. That being said we do hold book sales stocked by donations from patrons and the proceeds go into our programming budget.
