OCLC's 2005 report is Perceptions of Libraries and Information Resources. It's available at www.oclc.org//reports/ , the first link.
Taking in strays... yeah I have a few of those myself. ;)
I wish the donation-to-charity issue were less of a knot. The problem is, the discard books run the gamut from "my dog threw up on it" to "yet another copy of the Da Vinci Code of the 100s we had to buy and this one is just a bit shabby." No one wants the former; even the latter is iffy. Make that a shabby unknown thriller and no one will ever pick it up. Sorting through those piles is... impossible; it's thousands and thousands of books, if not tens of thousands. All you can do is shrug.
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Taking in strays... yeah I have a few of those myself. ;)
I wish the donation-to-charity issue were less of a knot. The problem is, the discard books run the gamut from "my dog threw up on it" to "yet another copy of the Da Vinci Code of the 100s we had to buy and this one is just a bit shabby." No one wants the former; even the latter is iffy. Make that a shabby unknown thriller and no one will ever pick it up. Sorting through those piles is... impossible; it's thousands and thousands of books, if not tens of thousands. All you can do is shrug.