Without any work confirming this on my end, but based on my past experiences working at a different library (in Madison ,WI) and based on what I've seen in the Hennepin Cty system, they likely had those books for sale for quite a while. When they do that, they are offered at a very significant discount, in most cases, pennies on the dollar. Once they were not sold, their option was to recycle.
Could schools have taken those? Perhaps, but even then I suspect there may be some sort of communication between those entities and therefore that was considered. Even if not, people had their chance to buy these. Libraries should not be required to hold books indefinitely. Finally, and frankly out of personal lack of knowledge about the site, are "South High Sucks.com" contributors "journalists"? This is meant to be a serious question not a smart alec sounding comment. Tom Madden Lowry Hill On 5/3/05 1:38 PM, "Leurquin, Ronald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was somewhat disturbed by the amount of books in the photo of the dumpster, > but want to think that the library was doing what was best with those books. > > What also disturbed me is the journalist of this story never made comment of > asking the library why they did it. Tell me the whole story, not just the > part you want to tell me. > > Ron Leurquin > Nokomis East > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Dr. Vinny > Sent: Monday, May 02, 2005 9:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [Mpls] Minneapolis Public Library Caught Throwing Books in > Dumpster > > > This weekend I got an email from a website visitor telling me about books in a > dumpster at the NE library. I thought that's interesting, so I checked it out > and ta-da! There were some perfectly good books in the dumpster at the > Minneapolis Public Library Branch on Central Ave. I don't know about you, but > that's pretty wasteful. Anyway, I have a longer story about it and several > photos at > > http://www.southhighsucks.com/minneapolislibrarythrowsoutbooks.html > > Anyway, I just thought people might like to know. It's kind of sick them doing > this, especially since there have been so many budget cuts and things of that > nature. > > Chris David > Columbia Park > http://www.southhighsucks.com/ > REMINDERS: > 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If > you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn > E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls > REMINDERS: > 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If > you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at > [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. > > 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. > > For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html > For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract > ________________________________ > > Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn > E-Democracy > Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] > Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls REMINDERS: 1. Be civil! Please read the NEW RULES at http://www.e-democracy.org/rules. If you think a member is in violation, contact the list manager at [EMAIL PROTECTED] before continuing it on the list. 2. Don't feed the troll! Ignore obvious flame-bait. For state and national discussions see: http://e-democracy.org/discuss.html For external forums, see: http://e-democracy.org/mninteract ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[email protected] Subscribe, Un-subscribe, etc. at: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
