rpn Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 I have more than a hundred lds books that I'm cleaning out of my library (mostly because I can't see reading them again, not because I wish I hadn't read them in the first place). I've asked around at church and in our ward's facebook page if anyone's interested, without results. Before I throw away five Jack Weyland books, and a whole host of other books on various topics of history and practice and doctrine, does anyone have any suggestions for repurposing them from my living room floor? Link to comment
bluebell Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Is your ward library at all interested in them? Institute libraries? Link to comment
Calm Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) Ward libraries shouldn’t have books in them except a few church distribution ones and a dictionary. There is a list, as of 7 or 8 years ago, I think there were maybe 5 might be less now so much is online and books may have out of date issues A regular library if you don’t have a DI close by might take them for fundraisers book sales Edited December 8, 2018 by Calm Link to comment
bluebell Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 19 minutes ago, Calm said: Ward libraries shouldn’t have books in them except a few church distribution ones and a dictionary. There is a list, as of 7 or 8 years ago, I think there were maybe 5 might be less now so much is online and books may have out of date issues A regular library if you don’t have a DI close by might take them for fundraisers book sales The ward libraries in our old ward building in Wyoming had a lot of books, but it was also one of those chapels built by members so it wasn’t a standard library. Maybe that’s why. Link to comment
Duncan Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 we have a small depository for books in the cloak room and people drop off stuff there, every week I take a gander but typically there I am disappointed😕 they do have a million of those Teachings of he Presidents of the Church though Link to comment
Calm Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 7 minutes ago, bluebell said: The ward libraries in our old ward building in Wyoming had a lot of books, but it was also one of those chapels built by members so it wasn’t a standard library. Maybe that’s why. It is against the rules though. I can’t remember how strongly it was phrased though My Canada stake had hundreds of books, but that was kept separate from the ward library so no one fussed about it. I think there are three reasons, one is room. Newer wards or those with shared buildings just don’t have the room and they don’t want to have hassles over trying to find it. Second, is that some people donate books about their pet projects and if there is any actual oversight and rejection, that can cause hard feelings. If there isn’t, you run into the problem of promoting false doctrine (think visions of glory being the most popular LDS book for awhile, likely a copy would end up in most ward libraries as it was being passed around as it was). Third, is some assume if it is in a church library it is vetted by the Church in some fashion. 3 Link to comment
Calm Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 Looks like they are directing people to the gospel app rather than having any books outside of manuals, manuals including the teachings series: https://www.lds.org/callings/sunday-school/leader-resources/meetinghouse-library-materials?lang=eng Link to comment
Calm Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 “Only books and audiovisual materials produced and distributed by the Church may be stored in and circulated from the meetinghouse library.“ https://www.lds.org/callings/sunday-school/leader-resources/adding-and-discarding-materials?lang=eng 1 Link to comment
Calm Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 I have never read Jack Weyland, though have sold them. Can’t remember if they are generic or not. If generic fiction, assisted living centers might take them Link to comment
bluebell Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 2 minutes ago, Calm said: Looks like they are directing people to the gospel app rather than having any books outside of manuals, manuals including the teachings series: https://www.lds.org/callings/sunday-school/leader-resources/meetinghouse-library-materials?lang=eng It sounds like wards can choose to get stuff from the lds.org store too, if they want. I couldn’t get the link to work though to see what was offered there. Now I’m curious. Link to comment
Calm Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 RPN, find someone who drives to Fairmormon conferences each year and get them to store them for next year’s book auction. 😛 1 Link to comment
bluebell Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 1 minute ago, Calm said: I have never read Jack Weyland, though have sold them. Can’t remember if they are generic or not. If generic fiction, assisted living centers might take them They are lds fiction for teens. 😊 Link to comment
Calm Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) 1 minute ago, bluebell said: It sounds like wards can choose to get stuff from the lds.org store too, if they want. I couldn’t get the link to work though to see what was offered there. Now I’m curious. Very little if any in terms of books, iirc. Probably Saints. Edited December 8, 2018 by Calm 1 Link to comment
rpn Posted December 8, 2018 Author Share Posted December 8, 2018 (edited) Anything not published directly by the church has been forbidden in the library for maybe longer than 15 years. (Though IME, it is only enforced when a new librarian actually reads the directions and then throws everything out.) Edited December 8, 2018 by rpn redundant 1 Link to comment
Calm Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 1 hour ago, rpn said: Anything not published directly by the church has been forbidden in the library for maybe longer than 15 years. (Though IME, it is only enforced when a new librarian actually reads the directions and then throws everything out.) Yep, that was me in both Canada and Utah. So probably at least 20 years 3 Link to comment
Stargazer Posted December 8, 2018 Share Posted December 8, 2018 eBay. Several years ago, I had a number of technical books including current and a few real oldies, and eBay provided an excellent way to sell them. One old university textbook on chemical engineering that was published in the 1930's that I bought at a yard sale for 50 cents went for $40. It was bought by a university library. It may be that eBay is no longer a good way to do this, but you never know. And you can sell them on Amazon, too! If you ever go to Amazon looking for a book, you will usually notice that there are used ones for sale as well as new. In fact, Amazon may be better than eBay. Link to comment
mnn727 Posted December 9, 2018 Share Posted December 9, 2018 (edited) One of my past callings was to minister to men in Prison. I would go Sunday afternoons for 1 1/2 hours and basically have a Priesthood class. It turned into the best calling I have ever had. The men there were starving for books. I asked around Church and nobody wanted to get rid of theirs. I did bring in a bunch of mine along with a number of years worth of Ensigns. The Ward did also give a lot of manuals and Book of Mormons also. Find your local state or federal prison (mine was a Federal prison in Fort Worth) address and send a letter to the Chaplin asking if they would like some of our religions books donated. Edited December 9, 2018 by mnn727 1 Link to comment
Jeanne Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 In the past, I have found a lot of used books at Deseret Ind. There is a good place to put them. Up here in Logan, there are a couple of book stores that have all kinds of books from people in town....they sell!! 1 Link to comment
BRMC Posted December 10, 2018 Share Posted December 10, 2018 On 12/8/2018 at 10:20 AM, rpn said: I have more than a hundred lds books that I'm cleaning out of my library (mostly because I can't see reading them again, not because I wish I hadn't read them in the first place). I've asked around at church and in our ward's facebook page if anyone's interested, without results. Before I throw away five Jack Weyland books, and a whole host of other books on various topics of history and practice and doctrine, does anyone have any suggestions for repurposing them from my living room floor? Anything a new convert would be interested in? Link to comment
Prof Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 On 12/9/2018 at 7:39 PM, Jeanne said: In the past, I have found a lot of used books at Deseret Ind. There is a good place to put them. Up here in Logan, there are a couple of book stores that have all kinds of books from people in town....they sell!! This. My former home teacher visited Salt lake a few years back and stopped in a DI while there. He brought back a bunch of books that he bought there for dirt cheap. You would have thought he was a kid in a candy store by how excited he was about it! 1 Link to comment
rpn Posted December 11, 2018 Author Share Posted December 11, 2018 On 12/9/2018 at 7:41 PM, BRMC said: Anything a new convert would be interested in? Depends on the interests and background of the new convert. Tried to PM you but it said you couldn't get messages. Link to comment
Calm Posted December 11, 2018 Share Posted December 11, 2018 He needs 25 posts to get PMs...perhaps a visit to thethree word thread? Link to comment
BRMC Posted December 12, 2018 Share Posted December 12, 2018 5 hours ago, Calm said: He needs 25 posts to get PMs...perhaps a visit to thethree word thread? Well, given my post rate he can try again in two years. Link to comment
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