[Publib] library materials being sold by Amazon

[Patricia Brown]

We recently had the same thing happen with a few old library books.  A
patron purchased some books from Amazon and they had discarded or library
stamps on them.  He was concerned about it and mentioned it to me.  I wasn't
aware that it was a larger "issue".  He also asked if the libraries were
doing this or people were buying them from the book sales then turning
around and selling them.

Patricia Brown
Atglen Library
Atglen, PA

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Cathy Ahern <cahern at russell.lioninc.org>wrote:

> Hi, I am writing on behalf of a concerned patron.  He has purchased three
> music CDs via Amazon within the past 6 months or so that have all been
> marked as being either discarded from a library or had some type of library
> designation on them.  As they were all fairly new recordings(although fairly
> obscure artists) in excellent condition he is wondering if anything
> unscrupulous is going on here.  One library did reply that indeed the item
> had been discarded and had been for sale at the library book store.
>
> Apparently Amazon does note in it's description of books for sale if the
> material came from a library collection, the patron says that sometimes this
> happens with CDs but not usually. He is wondering if there is a concern in
> the library world about this.  As we often put discarded materials of all
> types out during our Friends of the Library booksales I am not quite sure
> what can be done about this.  The sales do raise money for the library, if
> the purchaser then turns around and sells the material that is out of our
> hands.  Obviously stolen materials are another matter.
>
> Thanks, just musing on behalf of this concerned library user.
>
> Cathy Ahern
> Russell Library
> Middletown, CT
>
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