Donations

You can donate book sale items, money, services (gifts in kind) of nearly any description, and make a donation in memory or in honor of someone – and your donation is 100% tax deductible. See below for details.

DONATE BOOKS, ETC.
Please read the guidelines below before you donate. Items can be dropped off in the lobby of the John Steinbeck Public Library (there’s a bin to the left of the front door) at 350 Lincoln Avenue.

All donations are tax deductible. Need a receipt? Send your name, address and short description of the items donated (e.g., number of books, or number of boxes) to FOSPL.booksales at hotmail.com.

Remember – it’s a donation, not a dump! IF IN DOUBT, ASK FIRST! For large donations (10 or more boxes), we can arrange pick-up. Please have items packed flat in boxes (spine up injures the book). Send any donation questions or requests to FOSPL.booksales at hotmail.com.

If you’re donating books for someone who has gone into a retirement home or from an estate, please check them for personal items! We’ve had family photos and papers turn up in books, and there’s often no way to return them. Remember when you donate something we can't sell, we have to dispose of it and that costs money. Paying garbage or recycling fees for un-sellable donations takes money away from our effort to support Salinas Public Libraries.

DONATION GUIDELINES FOR BOOKS, AUDIO-VISUAL, ETC.

We accept:

• Hardcover and paperback books in good, salable condition.
     o No loose pages, missing covers or pages, no torn spines
     o No mold or mildew smell
     o No bad staining
     o No underlining or highlighting
• Audio or video items in good condition
     o Videos and DVDs
     o CDs
     o Records
     o Cassettes
• Items in any language
• Sheet music
• Unframed or framed prints or original art
• Book or literary related items in good condition, for example:
     o Bookends, Bookcases or shelves, reading lamps
     o Author photos, ephemera (Steinbeck-related a plus!)

We do NOT accept:

• Magazines, especially not National Geographic
• Reader’s Digest Condensed Books
• Sets with missing volumes
• Outdated reference materials (e.g., price guides, dated travel guides)
• ANY encyclopedias
• Home-made audio-visual tapes or cassettes
• Anything with mold or mildew, water damage, extensive underlining or handwriting, heavy damage to cover

DONATE MONEY

Monetary gifts are always welcome! Your gift may be made in honor of someone special, or in memory of someone. Please send your check payable to FOSPL to:

Treasurer – FOSPL
110 W. San Luis St.
Salinas, CA 93901

Be sure to note the name of the person being honored or remembered! Unless otherwise instructed, we will publish the names of those making the gifts, as well as the names of those being honored or remembered, in our Newsletter and on this web site. Gifts may also be made anonymously. Please indicate your wishes in a note accompanying your check.

All gifts to FOSPL are tax deductible

DONATE ANYTHING ELSE

Have a large item to donate? Free storage space? That wedding present you never used that would make a great raffle item? We’d love it! Please e-mail president at fospl.org