South Shore Public Libraries Donations Policy

The Library accepts donations of materials in any format with the understanding that staff may dispose of them in any way. We make decisions about adding a donation to the collection on the same basis as we decide to purchase an item. When we do not add gift items to the collection, we normally sell them and use the resulting funds to purchase other materials.

The Library welcomes gifts of money and issues numbered receipts (for income tax purposes) for gifts over $10.00. Gift funds are normally used to enhance the collection and gift materials are chosen according to the selection policy. A donor may suggest a special area in which a gift might be used. We place a bookplate identifying the donor (and the person honoured by the gift, when appropriate) in books purchased with gift funds. Gift books are part of the total collection, available to all borrowers, but are normally housed in the Library service point used by the donor.

• best-sellers published yesterday, or even better, tomorrow
• hard to find Nova Scotiana, or books about Lunenburg and Queens Counties
• recent kids' paperback series books in perfect condition

• your niece's Ph.D. thesis
• the memoirs of a Canadian prime minister, published in 1984
• the biography of the Saskatchewan premier in 1956
• last February's best-seller
• anything that's been in your basement for three years
• your college textbooks (physics has changed)
• Reader's Digest condensed books