Interest in old books&library cards

[SandiInTexas]

Just curious...I work in the library and have an abundance of old (like80'90's, nothing too old)stamped library date due cards and I come across lots of old books that are donated and thrown away, (i know, haha) but what am I to do with all....Do you think there'd be any interest in people purchasing???? Just thinking out loud...thanks, sandi

[Valli]

Definitely! Today's trash is tomorrow's vintage treasures. But if the date due cards have actual borrower's names, there could be privacy issues...still, flea market dealers might want the books.

Just some ideas...

[UnderstandBlue]

No doubt!

[mama groke]

From one librarian to another. I don't know about the cards, but our library district has now set up an account with Amazon, to sell the older books. Oh we have a lot of books customers can buy off the shelf, but the new ones and old ones that are donated can be sold on Amazon for a much better price then we get selling them off the shelf. Good luck. Deanna in so Utah

[buggainok]

Here in Oklahoma City they formed a non-profit group called Friends of the Library which organizes and holds an annual sale of unwanted library books at our Fairgrounds. It is a big deal and has become very well attended. All the funds are donated back to the library system.

Here are a couple of links if you'd like to take a look. Maybe you could encourage your library to do something similar to this.

Metropolitan Library System

Metropolitan Library System - Friends of the Library

[BarbaraNI]

I would love to have some old library cards with dates and such stamped on them.

Oh the possibilities

Sadly in the UK we don't have that system anymore :(


Barbara