*Donations limited to 4 boxes per person per day*
We don’t just set out boxes of donated books; we clean them, sort them, and shelve them by category, to make book sale browsing more enjoyable.
If you wouldn’t buy it in its current condition, then please don’t donate it.
If you wouldn’t give it to a friend, then please don’t give it to the Friends.
Book Barn is CLOSED to donations:
- The day BEFORE and the day OF a book sale as well as subject to the needs and requests of the Friends volunteers.
Guidelines for all Book, CD, DVD, and Vinyl donations to the Library and the Friends:
- No filthy, moldy, smelly, damp, damaged, underlined, highlighted, or otherwise marked up materials,
- No encyclopedias, textbooks, VHS, Betamax, or cassette tapes,
- No CDs, DVDs, and Vinyl records with no cases or covers, or if they were not commercially produced,
- No outdated (5+ years old) travel guides or computer/software manuals,
- No boxes with animal nests or droppings,
- Only Art and Cooking magazines in good condition.
How to donate:
- Bring into the Library when the Library is open. The Library is open Monday through Saturday.
- Do not leave any donations outside any entrance of the Library or the Book Barn when the Library is closed.
- There is a bookshelf outside the Book Barn, filled with free books for our Community. Do not put donations on our Free bookshelf.
Thank you for your generosity and consideration.
The Friends are a 509(a)(3) nonprofit and we will be happy to give you a tax receipt for your donations.
Profits from the Friends Book Sales underwrite many terrific Library programs. Support Woodstock’s longest-running book exchange — keep reading, keep donating, and keep shopping at the Friends Book Sales. Keep helping the Friends help our Library
Information on books not suitable for sale
As book lovers we try to give books a chance to make their way to a new reader, sometimes we have to say thank you and send them over the rainbow book bridge.
We sort and assess every book we receive. We clean, price, and categorize whatever we think we can sell to raise money for the Library.
We maintain a large bookcase with free books for the community outside the Book Barn behind the Library. Those books are available 24/7, 365. We occasionally restock the ‘Little Free Library’ on Woodstock’s Village Green, and in front of Sunflower. We regularly donate paperback books to a local prison. We donate books to other local charities. We particularly strive to get books into the hands of children!
We recycle or trash books that are in poor condition or unsaleable. (These are books that are damaged, moldy, marked, written in, or severely out of date, like books on DOS, or grant writing with a handy floppy disc enclosed.)
Lastly, the Friends hold an annual Give Away Day, when every book, CD, DVD, and Vinyl record in the Book Barn is available for free.
