Hints from Heloise: Libraries don’t always want old books

Dear Heloise: As a librarian, I urge people to call their library before they donate books.

Full post here.

March 18, 2012 by Uncategorized 4

You may also like...

4 Responses

  1. Anonymous says:
    March 19, 2012 at 5:09 pm

    Interesting
    More than a year old?

    Reply
    • Bibliofuture says:
      March 19, 2012 at 5:55 pm

      What date are you looking at?
      When I pull up the article it is dated 3/17/12

      That is not a year old. What date are you looking at??

      Reply
    • Bibliofuture says:
      March 19, 2012 at 5:56 pm

      Current article
      There was a current article that we posted about last week on this topic. Because of that article it made this post relevant.

      The Heloise article was found on Google news and was coming up as a current news item about libraries. Because we had the recent LISNEWS story I did not look more into the date because I already thought it was relevant. Note to self: Be careful with Google News.

      See:
      http://www.lisnews.org/why_is_it_so_hard_to_donate_books_to_the_new_york_public_library

      Update: I just went and clicked on the link again to the Heloise article and it is showing a date of 3/17/12. How is that a year old? What date are you looking at????

      Reply
  2. Anonymous says:
    March 20, 2012 at 9:31 am

    Ah you’ve misunderstood what I am refering to 🙂
    In that piece it says that if a book is a year old it shouldn’t be donated to a library.
    I find that a bit odd, especially for non-fiction (and academic) books that only get an update every 5 years.

    Reply

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

LISNews Archives