If I were you, I would check with neighboring libraries, public and school libraries, to see if they need/would be interested in your surplus copies. The state library and/or state historical society may also even have an interest in the surplus copies.

gaw

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--- On Thu, 3/12/09, Kaia Landon <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> From: Kaia Landon <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: [MUSEUM-L] Duplicate Yearbooks - what to do with them?
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009, 4:01 PM
> We are small historical museum with a rich collection of
> yearbooks.  We're
> hoping to wrangle this collection over the course of the
> next few months,
> and would love to know how other historical museums have
> dealt with them.
> Specifically, there are years for which we've wound up
> with many repeats --
> half a dozen and more.  Barring additional content worth
> preserving, does
> anyone have experience dealing with the excess?  Our
> regular deaccessioning
> policies will of course be followed, but has anyone found a
> creative, useful
> purpose for such items?  Did you sell/give them to other
> interested
> persons?  Getting rid of three of six copies of the 1972
> yearbook seems like
> it has more potential to be troublesome than getting rid of
> three badly
> deteriorated, unprovenanced plows.
> 
> (Yes, we know they should have never been accepted in such
> numbers, but
> that's someone else's mistake, and now our
> problem.)
> 
> Thanks,
> Kaia
> 
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