Donations to the Friends of the Library are the sole source of funding for programming at the Bartram Trail Branch Library. In addition to funding programming, we purchase books, equipment, and support renovation projects. Recent spending highlights include:

• New Shelving Units for the Friends' Everyday Book Sale

• New Luxury Plank Vinyl flooring in the Bartram Room

• New Tables and Chairs Throughout the Branch

• New Adult Reference desk

We have several more exciting projects in the works soon! If you would like to donate to help us fund all of these initiatives, please click here.

Bartram Trail Branch Library appreciates the many people who wish to support their community library by donating books, movies, and other materials. Donations may be added to the Library’s collection if they meet the criteria outlined in the SJCPLS Collection Development Policy. Donations judged not suitable for the collection or for the Friends book sale are discarded. 

Items must be free of mildew, mold, excessive dust, and dirt. In addition, books cannot have water damage, nor should they exhibit excessive spine damage, have missing pages or missing covers. Please dispose of this material at home as the library cannot provide recycling services.

Donations must be delivered to the Library during normal business hours. We kindly ask that items not be left outside the door or placed in the book drops.  If you have more than two boxes of books, please call ahead to make sure we can accommodate your donation. Due to space constraints, we may need to decline donations from time to time.

The Library will, upon request of the donor, provide a receipt for donated items, but cannot assign a value to donated materials.  Once accepted, donations are property of the Library and cannot be returned to the donor.

We accept:

• Hardcover and paperback books for children, teens and adults

• Contemporary and classic fiction

• Popular nonfiction such as cookbooks, biographies, history

• DVD and Blu-Ray movies in cases and in good condition

• Unabridged audiobooks 

• Textbooks published within the last 10 years

• Puzzles and games without missing pieces or damaged boxes

• Magazines for the swap rack

We cannot accept:

• Music CDs

• Books in poor condition 

• Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Textbooks older than 10 years 

• Reader's Digest condensed books, Time-Life Books and National Geographic Series

• Outdated reference books

• Library discards

• Abridged audiobooks

• Audio cassettes and VHS tapes

• Newspapers