{"id":209,"date":"2022-01-23T13:45:47","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T13:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/?p=209"},"modified":"2023-08-22T17:01:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T17:01:08","slug":"donate-your-books-to-fmtl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/2022\/01\/23\/donate-your-books-to-fmtl\/","title":{"rendered":"Donate your Books to FMTL"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-bright-blue-color has-text-color\">\u2014We need books!\u2014<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Books, Books, Books!&nbsp; Make room for new books on your shelves by donating your old books to the Friends book sale.&nbsp; All proceeds go to help the Michigan Tech Van Pelt and Opie Library.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There are, however, things we do <strong>not<\/strong> take, because they just won&#8217;t sell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>CDs, LP&nbsp;records, VHS tapes, or&nbsp;audio tapes (cassette\/8-track\/R2R)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>old, tattered, yellowed, marked up or damaged books<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>marked up lab manuals or&nbsp;instructor\u2019s class guides<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>conference proceedings,&nbsp;magazines, journals, and similar things<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>outdated almanacs, travel guides, computer books and manuals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>catalogs, telephone books, equipment instruction manuals<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>general encyclopedias or&nbsp;similar sets (unless of high quality\/rarity or specialty types [e.g., a 3-vol. Encylopedia of WWII Aircraft])<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>If you have items that are&nbsp;deeply vintage (&gt;50 years old), please contact us.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have only a few book sale donations, you may drop them off in the shiny new&nbsp;donation box located in the Library vestibule (between the glass doors to the&nbsp;left as you enter).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you have a box or bag of books, you may unload them at the Library loading dock. Call a Library staff member at the Service Desk&nbsp;at 906-487-2508 to have someone meet you at the back door to help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you need help getting your book sale donation books to the Library and would like someone to come to your house to pick them up, call Steve Walton at 906-487-3272\u00a0or email Susan Martin at <a href=\"mailto:srmartin@mtu.edu?subject=Book Sale Pickup Request\">srmartin<\/a><a href=\"mailto:srmartin@mtu.edu?Book Sale Pickup Request\">@mtu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014We need books!\u2014 Books, Books, Books!&nbsp; Make room for new books on your shelves by donating your old books to the Friends book sale.&nbsp; All proceeds go to help the Michigan Tech Van Pelt and Opie Library. There are, however, things we do not take, because they just won&#8217;t sell: If you have items that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/2022\/01\/23\/donate-your-books-to-fmtl\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Donate your Books to FMTL&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-booksale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":747,"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209\/revisions\/747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lib.sites.mtu.edu\/friends\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}