On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 15:23 -0500, Jim Hartley wrote: > I don't know about your library, but I belong to several author's groups > and there have been discussions of donating copies of the books we have > written to nearby libraries. > > Several people have noted that many libraries are reluctant to take such > donations, because it costs them something like $35 per copy to catalog > and shelve the books ... often more than the cost of buying a new book. >
I've wondered if the new books that Sean gets from Prentice-Hall wouldn't have a wider impact if donated to a library rather than being given out to an individual at a monthly MHVLUG meeting. If a library would prefer instead to buy a new book, wouldn't it still incur the above mentioned cost of cataloging and shelving? > You can try, but don't be disappointed if it doesn't happen - many > libraries ONLY want donated books for the "50 cent book sale" pile. > > Jim Hartley > > Eric Myers wrote: > > On Sun, 17 Jan 2010, Derek J. Balling wrote: > >> > >> Free to whomever takes it -- all of it, only -- is seven large boxes > >> of technical books. The content is 95% O'Reilly books, covering Linux, > >> Perl, PHP, MySQL, Python, networking, etc., etc., etc. (As an ORA > >> author, I get one of every title for free for the asking, and I was > >> pretty generous with the asking). > > > > It seems like this fine collection would do more good in a library. > > And since we already meet at a library.... > > > > Sean, perhaps you or someone in the group knows who to talk to about > > possibly adding these to their collection? They may not know the great > > value here, but we sure do, and we could communicate that to them. > > > > And then anybody in the group (with a library card) would be able to > > make use of these books. > > > > -Eric > > > > > _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Feb 3 - Arduino Mar 3 - Sahana and 7 Years of MHVLUG Celebration Apr 7 - Nagios
