We are not currently accepting donations. Check back later this summer to see when the donation shed will reopen.

Other places to donate books:

• Better World Books drop box located outside the Mid York Library System headquarters, 1600 Lincoln Ave, Utica. (Donations here help ALL the libraries.)

• Thrifty Shopper, New Hartford Shopping Center – accepts donations but prefers newer titles

• Little Free Libraries (several around the area)

• Stores with book exchanges (like Kinney)

• Other local libraries (Friends of the Oneida Library are currently accepting donations)

How to recycle or dispose of books:

• Remember – books have a shelf life. If it’s been on your shelves longer than you can remember, if you didn’t feel a pang when letting it go, or if you wouldn’t buy it, then it’s okay to let them go to the big bookshelf in the sky.

• Paperback books can be recycled.

• If you rip out the pages from hardcovers, the pages can be recycled, and the covers tossed in the trash.