[Eril-l] recycling weeded books

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Hello Jill,
Have you considered the national Prison Books Program?
https://prisonbookprogram.org.  They do accept mailed deliveries, if you
are willing to mail the books at your expense.  The program is located in
the First Parish Church in Quincy MA. A great program, in it's 52nd year of
helping folks gain access to reading materials. I hope this option works
for you and your library.
Good luck,
KArolyn
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 12:07 PM Electronic Resources in Libraries
discussion list via Eril-l <eril-l at lists.eril-l.org> wrote:

> Good morning all!
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> I am struggling with a weeding problem. Our collection is undergoing a
> large weeding project. I have been sending lists of the weeded books to
> Baker & Taylor’s Sustainable Shelves program. They take books they can
> resell and give us credit toward new purchases. It’s wonderful because the
> books are still useful and we get credit!
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> B&T used to also take the books they can’t sell and recycle them, but they
> recently stopped doing that. We are struggling with finding a way to
> recycle the weeded books. We have been told we can’t put them in the
> recycling dumpsters on campus. We have “Free- take one!” shelves near our
> entrance that students and faculty love to browse. Weeded books go there
> first. After sitting there for several weeks, the books are removed. They
> are now piling up on all available shelving in staff offices with nowhere
> to go.
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> A small percentage are good enough (good condition and general topics) for
> donation to local book sales, but most just need recycling.
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> Can you recommend a company that recycles both hard and soft cover books?
> Are there groups that look for donations of academic titles? We are in
> Western New York. Feel free to contact me off-list.
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> Thanks for any suggestions!
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> Jill M. Church
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> Electronic Resources and ILL Librarian
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> Montante Library
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> D’Youville University
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> churchj at dyc.edu
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> ill at dyc.edu
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> Phone: 716-829-8107
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