[Michlib-l] donated books

Thu Sep 9 11:57:53 EDT 2021

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

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 From: "Grai, Rebecca via Michlib-l" <michlib-l at mcls.org>
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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 at 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 at northwood.edu  

northwood.edu  

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