Friends of Pickerington Public Library

The library accepts and distributes all donated materials in accordance with the Library’s Collection Development Policy. Donations are accepted year-round at both Pickerington Main Library and Sycamore Plaza Library. Once items are donated, the library cannot provide accurate inventory of materials.

Please pack donations in boxes or bags you do not want back.

Non-acceptable items

Encyclopedias, magazines, activity books, Reader’s Digest condensed books, vinyl or music CDs, VHS, audio cassettes, and damaged or dirty items.

Acceptable items

Hardcover fiction and non-fiction, paperback fiction and non-fiction, cookbooks, religious books, travel books less than three years old, textbooks less than ten years old, computer books less than three years old, audiobooks on CD, dictionaries, reference books, volume books (full sets only), foreign language books with ISBN, oversized books, rare and collectible, DVDs.

Criteria for Donating Items 

• Please note that the library cannot guarantee that any donated materials will be added to the library’s collection.
• The library will not accept used textbooks, magazines and newspapers, encyclopedias VHS tapes, cassette tapes or CDs.
• Once donated, materials become the property of the Pickerington Public Library and the disposition of those materials is at the discretion of library staff. Donated materials will not be returned to the donor.
• Materials deemed suitable, according to the library’s Collection Development Policy, may be processed and added to the library’s collection.  All other materials, of acceptable condition, will be given to the Friends of the Pickerington Public Library for their bi-annual book sales.
• In the event of larger material donations (more than 10 boxes), please contact Theresa Wessel, of the Friends of the Pickerington Public Library.
• The library will accept materials seven (7) days a week; However, due to staffing restraints, the library may not be able to help customers unload donations on Saturday and Sunday. The Library reserves the right to ask customers to come back on a weekday.
• Donations should be given to staff and not placed in the book drop.