Book Donations
The Olean Public Library gratefully accepts used books if they can be added to the collection or they can be sold at Friends of the Library's book sales.
Popular materials such as mysteries, romances, westerns, science fiction, and novels and non-fiction—for adults or children—sell well.
The following books do not sell:
- Books that are old, musty, dirty, moldy or smelly or that have yellow, brittle, torn, scribbled, or missing pages.
- Textbooks older than 5 years
- Information books older than 10 years
- Encyclopedia sets older than 20 years
- Incomplete sets
- Magazines
- Reader's Digest Condensed Books
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