Sigh. I'm going to break some hearts here, I know, but: Being a good librarian means getting rid of books which are no longer used. It's just a fact of life. We call it "weeding", and it has the same purpose as in gardening. We weed and discard books all the time.
And as I tooted a few weeks ago: Please don't donate your ratty, moldy books to us. We won't use them. We won't give them to our FOL. We'll just do what you wouldn't do: Throw them away.
@corlin Our FOL books our meeting room for quarterly sales. They sell everything: books, CDs, movies. They get a lot of donations from the community.
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HEEY LL😊 Observed School Librarians In This Process. It WAS Needed. The "Weeded Ones" Had No Further Use.
Thank U 4 Discussing This Topic.
Be BLESSED💚
@LiberalLibrarian I always had some good soul that would return discarded books to the library. I wasn’t always diligent about removing identifying marks.
@LiberalLibrarian My wife was a librarian, so I know all about weeding. I myself work in a bookstore and we do much the same: sending back to the publisher or distributor books that haven't sold in a year or so. Stripping covers off paperbacks still gives me the cauld grue that some force will hold me accountable one day, but that's just me.
@LiberalLibrarian
Library sales.
Are the best. Cheap, and raises a bit of money for good folks.