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  • Donate Books
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  • Events
  • Membership
  • Kate Waller Barrett

Book Donation Guidelines

What can be donated?

What materials we do not accept (please recycle!)

What materials we can accept

The Friends of the Barrett Library hold two book sales each year.  These sales are only possible with your donations of gently used books and other related materials.  Donations are always accepted at the Barrett Library.  Drop your donations off at the circulation desk.  Periodically, the Friends also hold Book Drives to collect your book donations.

What materials we can accept

What materials we do not accept (please recycle!)

What materials we can accept

We welcome donations of Books and Materials in good condition.


> Fiction and Nonfiction Books

  • Adult (hardcover & paperback)
  • Young Adult (hardcover & paperback)
  • Children (board, picture, & chapter)

> Foreign language books

> Vintage books

> Textbooks (less than five years old)

> Puzzles (all puzzle pieces in bag and box)

> CDs & DVDs


What materials we do not accept (please recycle!)

What materials we do not accept (please recycle!)

What materials we do not accept (please recycle!)

> Encyclopedias and yearbooks

> Hardback dictionaries,  atlases and maps

> Publishers' advance reading copies (ARCs)

> Newspapers/newsletters, magazines

> Professional journals

> VHS/audio cassette tapes and records

> Outdated (older than 5 years) finance, business, wellness, parenting, health, travel, computer, technology, and medical books

Friends of the Barrett Library

barrettlibraryfriends@gmail.com

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