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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not at least try to sell them first? Our church gives away bags of books for $1 when they are finishing up. The library could do the same instead of throwing them out.[/quote]

They already do. All the library branches have used book sales. There is one like every month at one of the libraries. Not too much of a turnover in a relatively huge library system. [/quote]

Well, why not donate them to local nursing homes, schools or private individuals who want them?  Evidently Sam decided to make that more difficult in order to justify pitching them into the dumpster.  Even an outdated guide to Mexico is likely to have some information that isn't going to change much.

[quote]As books began disappearing from the shelves, Tresa Schlecht of the Friends of Tysons-Pimmit branch and others pleaded with library administrators to allow the Friends to rescue books, their e-mails show. Then Schlecht did her own literary Dumpster dives this spring, taking photographs of hundreds of books, including “Harry Potter” books and other seemingly desirable volumes, stuffing the dumpster in Chantilly.

“This is just as wasteful as I thought it would be,” Schlecht said. “My hobby is finding new homes for books,” including after-school programs in the District, religious schools and shelters, she said.

So Smyth did her own investigation. Among the items she found consigned to the trash were a pristine 2010 Fodor’s guide to Mexico,[b] some large, good-quality art and gardening books[/b][/quote][/quote]

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