Better World Books
https://www.betterworldbooks.com/
It's the great book storage in the sky. We send almost all our discards, except for a few categories that don't fit what they accept. And their inventory is listed in the online used book search tools, so we buy from them as a used book dealer too. (In fact we once bought a book from them and discovered it was our own copy that we'd surplussed to them a year earlier.)
We don't have one of those robotic off-site storage facilities that some libraries have, but I like to think BWB fills that role for us, with zero maintenance cost and all we have to pay is a retrieval charge when we get something back. :-)
Gordon
Gordon Coleman
Head, Resource Acquisition, Management, and Metadata
Simon Fraser University Library
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gcoleman_at_sfu.ca
778-782-3916
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From: acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org <acqnet-request_at_lists.ala.org> on behalf of Stacey Marien <acqnet_at_lists.ala.org>
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 12:56 PM
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Subject: [ALCTS-acqnet] unsolicited books?
All
I have just cleaned out my bookcase and now have a cart full of books that were sent to the library/Acq department unsolicited. What do you all do with books like this? Somehow I feel guilty putting them into the recycle bin
Stacey
Stacey Marien
Acquisitions Librarian
American University
4400 Massachusetts Ave, NW
Library Technical Services
Spring Valley – Room 148
Washington, DC 20016
smarien_at_american.edu<mailto:smarien_at_american.edu>
202-885-3842<tel:202-885-3842>
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