HIT: selling weeded books

[Susan Myers <rudimyers@ZDNETONEBOX.COM>]

Dear LMNetters:

I received about thirty-five responses to my question, "Does anyone sell
their weeded books."  I summarized the responses below...

Yes - 18 people could sell their weeded books.  Price ranges ran from
10 cents a book to a dollar or two.  The public libraries, of course,
sell their books during the Friends of the Library sale.  A couple of
people specifically said that the district or state ok'd the sales.

No - 7 people.  One persons said it was a state law that forbade librarians
from selling weeded books.  Another said that their district required
them to send the books to the county warehouse.

Yes, BUT - 6 people.  The librarians who responded this way had sold
their books but ran into problems.
- We are allowed to, but I find the public doesn't understand why I remove
"perfectly good" books.
- I did once, but my district told me I had to discard the books.
- For two years we did, but the school board said we could not anymore.
- Yes, but selling the books caused such an uproar (from the community)
that I will never do it again.
- Yes, I did sell in one district but am not allowed to in my current
district.


Thank you for all of the responses.  I will ask my principal if I can
sell the books.  I know of a used book store in another city that might
buy them.


Susan


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Susan Myers
Chesnee High School Librarian
Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
http://schoolnotes.com/29323/srmyers.html
http://www.uscs.edu/~amyers


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