When your library has to say no,
we're where you send them.

Most of what you'll read on our site is written for homeowners: leave your boxes on the porch by 8 AM, we come sometime between 8 AM and 8 PM. That's a fine answer for a front porch. It's a terrible answer for a library, and librarians have told us so.

So for libraries, we run it your way:

Every library gets this call. Someone inherited a house. Someone is downsizing. A teacher is clearing out thirty years of a classroom. They have four hundred books, or a thousand, and they want them to go somewhere that matters — and your intake limit is a fraction of that.

Right now the honest answer is "we can take two boxes," and the donor still has the other three hundred and ninety-eight. Send them to us instead. We go to them — their house, their garage, their storage unit — and take the whole lot for free.

You get to send them somewhere helpful without taking on books you have no room for.

Textbooks. Encyclopedia sets. Older editions. Condensed volumes. Boxes of paperbacks in the wrong genre for your sale table. Every library has a list of what it can't accept, and every list creates a donor standing there holding books nobody will take.

We don't have that list. Hard or soft, old or new, whatever the subject — if it's a book, it has a next reader somewhere in the Network. Refer the donor to us and the conversation ends with a scheduled pickup instead of a shrug.

Donations rarely arrive at a convenient pace. They arrive in a weekend. The donation drop-off spot fills, the bin overflows, boxes start stacking against the wall by the donation door, and suddenly staff are triaging cardboard instead of doing their jobs.

Call us when it's stacking up and we'll clear it, usually within days. Nobody has to be turned away at the drop-off, and the boxes don't sit in a hallway until someone has a free Saturday.

Weeding is healthy collection management, not failure. But "withdrawn from this collection" is not the same as "worthless." A title that no longer earns its shelf space in your building is often exactly what a homeschool family, a small-town book stand, or a classroom is looking for.

Same after a Friends of the Library sale. The last tables still have good books on them — they just ran out of buyers in one weekend, in one town. We'll take the leftovers before your deadline and put them back in circulation instead of a dumpster.

Some libraries and Friends groups already pick up books from the community — usually with a phone list, a shared inbox, and a volunteer's memory. It works until it doesn't.

We can put the same infrastructure the Network runs nationwide behind your own operation: a "Schedule a Pickup" button that lives on your website, under your library's brand, with donors never leaving your site and the Network staying out of view.

Here's a look at the back end your team would be working in — the same system our Pick-Up Partners use every day to keep donations and routes organized.

This one isn't a form-and-go — it's a conversation. Every library system is built a little differently. Tell us how yours runs and we'll walk your team through what it would look like.

Already used by library and Friends groups across 46 states and 9,790 cities.

We're not competing with you

"To the making of many books, there is no end."

People who want to give to their library will give to their library, and they should. There will never be a shortage of books headed your way. What we handle is everything past your capacity and outside your policy — the part that would otherwise end in a "no" or a dumpster.

Requests come in through us and get routed to a local Pick-Up Partner. Some areas confirm right away; in newer areas your request goes out to Partners nearby and we keep you posted until it's claimed. Either way, keep scheduling through the Network — even with the same friendly Partner each time. That's how the pickup is tracked, backed up if someone is out, and counted toward how we're serving libraries nationwide.

Libraries are one part of what we do. Here are the other places to point donors, staff, and volunteers depending on what they need.

Whether it's a one-time cleanup, a standing pickup after every sale, or your own branded pickup system, start here and we'll reach out.

Ready now? Schedule a free pickup

Enter your library's ZIP code to see the next available date. Boxes, bags, loose stacks, or a full room — it all works.