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
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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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 10:57 AM To: Jonathan Hutchins; [email protected] 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
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 [email protected] 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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I would venture to bet that there are libraries somewhere out there that would be able to use those books. There are even libraries that specialize in certain subject matters. I would never throw away a book and certainly would not burn one. Whether the subject matter of the book is outdated or not doesn't really matter. They may indeed dispose of the books, after they are processed and the contents are saved on microfilm or a digital format. I would not say that I am qualified to make the decision as to what is useful or not to a library. I would do it just out of respect for the person who wrote the book and for the people that may want to reference something in it someday.
I just would not be able to bring myself to throw some bodies published intellect away like that.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Leo Mauler Sent: Monday, April 02, 2007 11:31 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Old Computer Book Recycling?
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 [email protected] 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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