When in doubt, please feel free to visit this site or contact us before bringing donations to the Reston Library.
BOOK DONATIONS: CLOSED
Due to air conditioning failure, Reston Regional Library is closed until Monday, July 13th.
Due to air conditioning failure, Reston Regional Library is closed until Monday, July 13th.
- Until 4pm every day the library is open.
- 2 boxes per day!
- NO ickies!
Before bringing your donations to the library, please review our guidelines below regarding books we can and cannot accept.
We cannot always accept large donations. However, if you have a large collection of books to donate and they meet the guidelines, contact us! We'll ask for some more details so we can determine if we can arrange to take them in!
We cannot always accept large donations. However, if you have a large collection of books to donate and they meet the guidelines, contact us! We'll ask for some more details so we can determine if we can arrange to take them in!
Books we can and cannot accept
YES, PLEASE - DO DONATE
NO, THANK YOU
- Books for readers of all ages, from newborn to 99+
- Good condition used books in fiction or non-fiction
- New books, best sellers, coffee-table, gift books
- Cookbooks - very recent or favorite classics
- Non-English books - non-fiction only; educational books such as dictionaries, language learning,"Berlitz", word concepts, etc.
- Educational materials - Recent (typically within the last 5 years) text books, test-prep materials. No high school or college foreign language text books.
- Especially desired non-fiction subjects: Art, Biographies, Business, History, Investing, Philosophy, Science
- Collectible books, antiquarian items, books prior to 1950
- Collectible magazines - Prior to 1950
- New Magazines - Less than 3 months old
- Other media - CDs, DVDs, audio books on CD, educational DVDs from The Great Courses
- Good condition puzzles or games (all the pieces) - please tape the box closed
NO, THANK YOU
- NO books with heavy underlining, dogeared pages, smoke, water, pet damage, mildew or dirt.
- NO VHS tapes, audio cassettes, or phonograph/vinyl records
- NO books, novels, text books, history books in foreign languages EXCEPT "how to learn a language"
- NO self-help, relationship, medical books more than 3 years old
- NO travel books more than 3 years old
- NO maps, atlases, TripTiks, etc.
- NO National Geographic, Smithsonian, oversized magazines, or free/membership magazines (AARP, AAA, etc.)
- NO remainders from yard sales, rummage sales, etc.
Note: Donations close when space is not available, a week or so before and after our two big semi-annual sales, and mid-December to early January, to give our volunteers a holiday.
Please contact us by email if you want to make sure donations are open before coming to the branch.
Please contact us by email if you want to make sure donations are open before coming to the branch.
