Another suggestion: We have a book cart labeled FREE CART in our foyer on which we place donated books that are not going into our Book Sales. NOTHING stays on that cart for long! Best wishes, Mary Beth Reasoner Children's Librarian Tecumseh District Library ---------------------------------------- From: "Grai, Rebecca via Michlib-l" <michlib-l@mcls.org> Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 11:30 AM To: "michlib-l@lists.mcls.org" <michlib-l@mail2.mcls.org> Subject: Re: [Michlib-l] donated books Thank you so much everyone for all your input on my question. I now have enough information to make an informed decision on how we are going to handle this situation. Your collective knowledge and experience is astounding! Becky From: Grai, Rebecca Sent: Thursday, September 9, 2021 9:56 AM To: michlib-l@lists.mcls.org Subject: donated books Good morning! There's a Autumn-like feeling out here today. Sorry summer, your days are numbered! We are a small academic library and recently had a patron donate 100+ books and is requesting a receipt for tax purposes. They are business and leadership books-mostly pretty old, a few classics, and few newer. I have a couple of questions regarding the issuing of a receipt: - -What amount should we consider issuing for these books--an amount for all the books donated, or only the ones we are keeping? We are only keeping about a dozen of the donated books. -Any ideas on what we should do with the remaining books? -Anything else I should consider that I have not asked about? Thanks. Becky Rebecca Grai Head of Circulation Strosacker Library Northwood University 4000 Whiting Drive Midland, MI 48640 Office: 989.837.4333 grai@northwood.edu northwood.edu Facebook