Re: ATM and LIbRARIES

[Brian Nestel <blast@aloha.net>]

Richard Schwartz wrote:
> Anthony recently suggested donation of a book to your local library.   I
> would like to discourage this unless you get a firm promise from the
> library that the book will actually be placed on the shelf and in the
> card catalog.   Without such a promise, they will merely dispose of it
> for twenty five cents at the annual dead book sale.
> 
> That is the sad truth about how libraries work.   If you want to become
> a real pessimist, just compare the number of astronomy books with the
> number of astrology books.   Groovy, what's yer sighin', dood?
Hi:
Another reason is that quite a few  libraries use contract services to
get their books, the services also supply computer or microfiske indexes
for
them and knowing what the capacity of the library is the contract 
service tells them what books to get rid of when they get new books,
so when you donate books to the library they may not have the ability
to add books to their index or want to because the books don't fit into
their general plan, so they go into the "to be sold" pile. A way to
insure
putting books into the system is to run a program to collect money to
give
the library a grant so they can purchase the books to put into their 
system, and even this may not be received with open arms as you are
mucking around in their empire.

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