tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post8084181878356264298..comments2024-03-29T00:34:36.786-05:00Comments on Book Chase: Library Bureaucracy at Its Best (Worst)Sam http://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-10912163656209300412009-05-08T07:27:00.000-05:002009-05-08T07:27:00.000-05:00Factotum, way to go. It took time and patience to...Factotum, way to go. It took time and patience to find a home for books that still had some use to people who needed books like those. Most people are just too lazy to do what you did. I have tossed few books in my life (I much prefer giving them away) and the ones I've tossed were just trash - books so bad or so insensitive to certain groups that they needed to be pulped so I put them in Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-72988951034759886962009-05-08T07:23:00.000-05:002009-05-08T07:23:00.000-05:00Sam, it just kills me to see useful books thrown o...Sam, it just kills me to see useful books thrown out for no reason other than that the library has no space for them. I understand that some books go completely out-of-date and do become useless, but they could be taken to a recycling collection point, at the least. Libraries just don't make any effort to do what's right in these cases - taking the easy, cheapest way out is wrong.Sam https://www.blogger.com/profile/17448913705757509608noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-65973323736157876442009-05-07T08:56:00.000-05:002009-05-07T08:56:00.000-05:00I had a hard time finding anyone who wanted my hus...I had a hard time finding anyone who wanted my husband's college engineering textbooks (from the early 80s). Goodwill and Salvation Army wouldn't take them. <br /><br />Honestly. Have physics, calculus and chemistry changed that much in the past 30 years? I couldn't bear to throw them away. (But I couldn't understand why he hadn't sold them in school when they had some value!)<br /><br />The Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38656633.post-49940666272338475402009-05-06T22:09:00.000-05:002009-05-06T22:09:00.000-05:00I can understand if there was mold or something th...I can understand if there was mold or something that caused the books to be a health hazard. <br />Now one time we had a bunch of old engineering and electronics texts donated and a board member told me to throw them in the dumpster because as she put it "who would want those?". The point I'm trying to make is sometimes it's the board members (who usually only visit the library for meetings) who Samnoreply@blogger.com