library donation

I asked her about buying the book for the library.  She suggested letting the
library itself decide to buy it.


In a message dated 4/12/2007 1:30:56 PM Central Daylight Time, someone at
cincinnatilibrary.org writes:


> Not necessarily.  All donations are accepted with the caveat that anything
> we decide we don't need will be donated to the Friends to be sold in their
> book sale.  Also, anything is subject to weeding if not used, although Main
> seldom ever weeds the last or only copy of anything.  However, the current
> administration is leaning more and more away from the concept of the main library
> as a research library.  Once they start treating Main as the downtown branch,
> who knows what all they'll start tossing.  That said, your best bet is to
> talk to the department that would receive your donation (presumably Literature
> and Languages or Fiction, depending whether it's in or about another
> language) and determine whether or not they would want the item.  Before you do that,
> you might go to the library's website, click on Books, Music & Movies, and
> scroll down to the bottom of the page, where it says "suggest a purchase."
> Type in all the purchase info, and be sure to include your email address.  They
> will let you know if they decide to purchase the book, or why they decide
> not to.  Based on their answer, you will get a clearer idea of whether or not
> it would be worth it to donate a copy.
>
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
>> From: MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com [mailto:MorphemeAddict@wmconnect.com]
>> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2007 10:40 AM
>> To: someone
>> Subject: donation
>>
>>
>> If I bought a book specifically for the Cincinnati Library, would they
>> accept it and then keep it and not sell it away?
>>
>
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