Whiting Library is pleased to consider your donations. However, the library retains unconditional ownership of all donations and makes the final decision on acceptance, use, and disposition. All gifts are accepted with the understanding that it may someday be necessary that they be sold or disposed of in the best interest of Whiting Library.

Guidelines for Book Donations

***All items donated must be CLEAN AND IN GOOD CONDITION***

The Whiting Library reserves the right to determine how it will utilize your donation. For your donation to be considered for the COLLECTION, it must be:

• Clean
• In good repair
• We also consider topical balance, accuracy, and space.

Whiting Library’s basement also houses an ongoing book sale, with all proceeds benefiting the library. Your donation helps the library’s BOOK SALE if it is:

• Clean and neat
• In good to great condition – so good that you would repurchase it yourself!

**NO DOORSTEP ORPHANS**
Your donation will be accepted during library hours and will be reviewed as you wait, so you can find another home for the things we cannot take. (We cannot dispose of books for you.)

*Do Not Donate Books with:

• Torn pages, torn covers, missing covers, broken spines
• Yellowed pages, flocked or moldy pages
• Obsolete information (old travel guides, price guides, technology manuals)
• Magazines, scratched discs, or missing discs, or bootlegged recordings
• Anything on tape
• Filled-in workbooks (crosswords, sudoku)
• Items with scribbled comments
• Calendars, encyclopedias, dictionaries
• Cat hair balls, food scraps, household trash, mice droppings, worms, bugs.

Guidelines for Other Material Donations

The Director must approve all other material donations.

Note: Whiting Library generally only accepts technology donations if the item is less than two years old. If you have a computer or other technology device that you no longer wish to keep, and it is older than two years, we can help you find another donation source. Please see our reference staff for assistance.