I know that JewishUsedBooks.com buys bulk collections if you can photos of the box contents.
Yakov On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Anne Mintz <[email protected]> wrote: > An introduction and as request for help: > > After a long career in special librarianship, I began serving as the > librarian (permanent part-time) at the Academy for Jewish Religion in > Riverdale, New York in September 2011. I just joined the AJL, just in time > actually to ask a question that has me stumped. It's not a new question. > > We have had many donations over the years that's resulted in a collection of > more than 700 books we don't need. Many came from the private collections > of rabbis who are retiring, so there were a lot of duplicates. We've > already held a book sale for the students, faculty and alumni and these are > the books that didn't sell. > > They are now packed in about 20 large cartons, some of which are by general > topic (Israel, American Jewish life, etc.) the rest in cartons with > miscellaneous contents. > > Does anyone know of a specific place that would take these without a > detailed list of contents? I know about the Strand book store in Manhattan, > but they are picky about what they want and are unlikely to take all the > cartons. I suspect there are "jobbers" that do take such collections. > > Management here has asked me to figure out what to do with them, especially > since we will be moving to a different building in six months. I'm not sure > where else to turn for advice. I hope this is not an inappropriate question > for this list. > > Anne Mintz, MLS > Librarian > Academy for Jewish Religion > www.ajrsem.org > > > __ > Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual > author > and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries > (AJL) > ================================== > Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: > [email protected] > To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] > Ha-Safran Archives: > Current: > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > Earlier Listserver: > http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html > AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org > -- > Hasafran mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran > __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
