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Originally Posted by olderTechnology
Re: the last two comments, you really lowered the level of discourse here. Libraries are awesome, but they are NOT the place you go to donate books.
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If the library is an archival library, donations related to their specific field are welcome, and will be added to stacks. However, the caveat is that these libraries will sell or give away duplicated material.
I remember one such discussion about whether to keep the pristine first edition, or the almost pristine signed by the author first edition. In the end, they sold both copies, on the grounds that the reader copy first edition that was littered with notes that the former owners made, was going to be more useful for future researchers.
Historical societies, and museums that focus on local (village or county) history, are far more inclined to accept book donations, and add them to their collection, if the material is related to the village or county, or people or places connected with either the village or the county.
I remember one local museum having a huge collection of romance novels in their stacks. The justification was that they were written by a local author, and would be needed for a proposed "local author museum" in twenty or so years time, when it would be a tourist landmark.