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Has anyone here ever donated volumes of UY to libraries? If I can find good deals on a couple of UY TPBs at amazon marketplace, I'm considering getting a few to donate to a couple of libraries (I already have all of them except Grasscutter II). The libraries where I have have some comics and graphic novels, but no UY. I think every library should have at least a few volumes. Maybe I'll get a few copies of Grasscutter to donate if I can pick up a few inexpensively.

Anyone have suggestions for other volumes that might be particularly good to donate to libraries?

I've donated a bunch of comics and graphic novels to libraries. A few publishers send me comps, many of which I have given to the Young Adult librarian at the main branch in my city. Make sure they are appropriate for the readership.

I've also given a few copies of UY, but they already have quite a few volumes on their shelves.

I donated my TPB copy of Book 2 to my local library after acquiring a hardcover edition.

I work as a clerk at a library system in the San Francisco Bay area. We're told to accept all donations courteously, but many items do not become part of the collection. We get lots of old and out of date nonfiction, last year's fiction best sellers, VHS videos, college textbooks, old magazines, single issues of comic books, etc. Even some good items might get overlooked among the junk.

You should try to find a sympathetic librarian who you can trust to add the book to the collection. Stan's Usagi books won a national ALA young adult award so be sure to point it out. Sometimes a big news story, unfortunately, often obituaries such as for Will Eisner or Carl Barks, will raise awareness among the noncomic reading librarians.

From the inside, I sit down with one of our book buyers every couple months. She's most receptive to the animation and comic art books I give like the Art of Finding Nemo, Art of Spirited Away, andMutts: the Comic Art of Patrick McDonnell. Those are good, colorful "one off" books in hardcover which she is happy to have processed and made part of the collection. She has been reluctant to accept just the first of a comic series as the library may not be able to buy the follow-up volumes. She's turned down out-of-print anime DVD's as she could not buy more if demand develops.

I did get to sit in on some meetings of the children's librarians when they got to buy graphic novels. From showing them some of my books, they ended up buying all three of those handsome Image hardcovers of James Robinson and Paul Smith's Leave It to Chance and Rod Espinosa's Courageous Princess.

Best,

Steven