I Am GIVING You This Book!
Aren't you going to thank me? I'm sure there's a post to be written about self-published and local authors who donate their books to the collection and then try to micro-manage them, but I don't get a lot of those, so I'll leave that to the experts. What I want to talk about today is the run-of-the mill box or paper bag of donations. What usually happens at my library is that someone calls up in advance: Patron: "I have/my daughter/my husband has a huge HUGE stack of books and I want to get rid of them." Librarian, nervous about potential overflow and difficulty of getting them in from the parking lot: "How many, can you guess?" Patron: "Like TWO whole boxes!!!" Librarian, relieved: "Sure, we can probably manage that." Patron: "And is there also somewhere I can sell my 1978 encyclopedia?" Librarian: *sigh* The corollary to this interchange is the Will You Appraise My Books for Me call, but let's not st...