No donations in the bookdrop

[KellyHabersham]

("Susie" isn't an SC, but what she wanted to do is considered sucky by library staff, because it's come up with other customers before, and she's not the only church member to ask me about this recently)

It's great that you're willing and able to help someone clean out their house, and that you're wanting to donate the books to the library. I realize that this person has a large amount of books to get rid of, however.........you need to take them inside, to the customer service desk, when the library is open. Otherwise, those of us who handle the bookdrop have NO way to know whether or not those items were meant as a donation, and we have a very limited amount of space to store "accidentally returned" items.

[AnaKhouri]

Our library must have had the same problem, because they used to have two drive-through return bins, and now one of them is a donation bin instead.

[KellyHabersham]

Funny you should mention donation bins - the library in my system which Susie normally visits has one, so she probably figured it was a system-wide thing.

[froglet]

I usually don't work Mondays, but I had to open the library this one. Someone decided to dump off one and a half shelving cart rows of donated juvenile chapter books, like Mary-Kate and Ashley. One or two we might actually use, but mostly stuff we weeded last year because nobody of that generation knows who they are.
So that's two sides of the coin, you either can't tell if they are donations, or its all their junk.
Don't donate to the dropbox!

[Aragarthiel]

I used to volunteer at a library, mostly sorting out the books they had to prepare for their annual book sale. There was an entire room full, and another closet stuffed so full that when you opened the door, you were afraid of an avalanche. Apparently, the ladies at the library had a policy that if they found more than two books in the book drop that weren't theirs, they kept them, considering most people wouldn't usually make the mistake with more than two books.

*Note: most of the books I had to organize were from people who had dropped by in the month or so after the sale saying, "Aren't you having a sale soon?"