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Ex-library Books

  • 09-01-2014 3:05pm
    #1
    hurling1884
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 ✭


    Can anybody tell me why libraries get rid of books?
    I often buy second-hand books on-line with stamps saying "Withdrawn from X Library". Do libraries give books away that they no longer keep? I recently bought a book on-line that was only published in the last five years!!!
    If there are such things as library sales I would love to hear about them.
    Thanks all in advance


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  • #2
    Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,009 ✭✭✭Tangatagamadda Chaddabinga Bonga Bungo


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  • #3
    wretcheddomain
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,094 ✭✭✭wretcheddomain


    hurling1884 wrote: »
    Can anybody tell me why libraries get rid of books?

    Libraries have limited space.

    This limited space is taken up by books.

    New books, therefore, must eventually take the place of old books.

    Old books are removed.

    /thread


  • #4
    SEPT 23 1989
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 43,028 ✭✭✭✭SEPT 23 1989


    I believe they burn them


  • #5
    RDM_83 again
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,116 ✭✭✭RDM_83 again


    Trinity College do a good library sale, I think the first day is dealers and job lots only though.


  • #6
    Shenshen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,453 ✭✭✭Shenshen


    hurling1884 wrote: »
    Can anybody tell me why libraries get rid of books?
    I often buy second-hand books on-line with stamps saying "Withdrawn from X Library". Do libraries give books away that they no longer keep? I recently bought a book on-line that was only published in the last five years!!!
    If there are such things as library sales I would love to hear about them.
    Thanks all in advance

    It's a question of space in most public libraries.
    Some academic libraries would not get rid of their books, as they would have been charged with preserving them for future generation.

    Your run-of-the-mill town library, however, has limited space and limited funds. They usually hold regular book sells where they will sell both books from their own stock which no longer seem to be popular or are showing too much wear and tear and books which they might have been given as gifts but which they know would not be of much interest to their readers.
    When I was working in a public library in Germany, and elderly reader once brought in boxes full of books - soldier's stories from WW II. There's only so many of those you can have on the shelves.

    If you want to find out when your local library is holding the nex sale, just ring them up. Usually it's a fixed date, same time each year.


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  • #7
    Ruu
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,622 ✭✭✭Ruu


    Low circulation of checkouts and room for new books.


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