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The Board of Trustees of the New Lenox Public Library District authorizes the Executive Director or designees to withdraw and dispose of Library materials.
In order to maintain a collection of materials that best serves the public, the Library must periodically withdraw library materials such as books, magazines, videos, DVDs, CDs, etc., from the collection for a variety of reasons as outlined in the General Policy – 303 Evaluation of the Collection.
Library materials will be disposed of in one of the following ways:
- By transferring them to the Friends of the Library, in order to be sold in the Friends of the Library book sale
- By donating them to other institutions or non-profit organizations so that they may continue to be used including local schools, nursing homes and the New Lenox Area Historical Society
- If the materials cannot otherwise be disposed of or are not in salable condition, they will be recycled or otherwise discarded
Items will not be removed from the collection upon the request of patrons or staff in order for them to purchase.
Adopted by the Board of Trustees December 12, 2011; Revised December 11, 2017
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