Are your shelves sagging with the weight of your crafting library, but you can’t bear to toss those fondly-remembered titles? Consider donating them to your local library! Give them a call. Most public libraries accept lightly used books to add to their underfunded collections or to sell in bargain sales to support other programs. Either way they’ll get a second (green) life while benefitting your community!
Library sales are also a great place to find scrapbooking and paper crafts treasures for cheap! Sift through the stacks as if you’re in a paper store, and keep a keen eye out for sumptuous gold-stamped bindings, antique text pages, scribbled notes hidden in poetry books, marbled papers, bookplates, etc. to add to your next collage. Don’t forget to look through the children’s section for rich lithographs and etchings, or for unique bright colors and patterns. Kids books are often the cheapest, sometimes less than a dollar a piece!
Check out the next library sale in your community and let us know what you find!
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Thank you for sharing this. Yes, our libraries really do need donations of books to help provide a broad offering of books for readers, as well as to raise money thru their library sales to buy more new books. I love to donate books to local libraries. I even pack books to donate to libraries when I travel, especially those that are in small communities that really need to build a larger library.
SewCalGal
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Donating to the library is a wonderful idea, especially crafting books.
I am lucky in that our libraries carry a nice selection of books, and I always give them my good books.
Debbie
Or list them on http://www.bookmooch.com or http://www.paperbackswap.com! Someone else will enjoy books you already read, and you'll receive a credit to request a new-to-you book!
What a great idea! I regularly donate books to the library, and look through their sales for DVDs and books about quilting, etc. Hadn’t thought of looking for crafting supplies though.
Our library in Napa has sales throughout the year from books donated to Friends of the Library. I have found some great craft and sewing books and wish more people would donate more so I have a better choice. :o) Our guild in Napa also has a wonderful library for its members and when books get older or not used as much they are sold in order to purchase more books. I have also donated books to a women’s prison for their craft’s program as well as their reading library.