People don't realize that when books are deaccessioned from the library they end up in one of three places. Either we discard them and send them to the Friends Book Sale or we strip the covers off and send them to the recycler or they get boxed up and thrown in the trash. We had to start boxing the trashed books because one of our maintenance guys was caught dumping a bunch of paperback novels in the city dumpster and they were reported to the Book Police who complained to our director. What we can't give away has to be thrown away unfortunately.
