Donation Drop-Off Location

Donation drop-off is located at the first loading dock at 265 Parkland Plaza, off of Jackson Rd. We are the first driveway on the left past Little Lake Road, opposite the white fence. We are accessible from the Parkland Plaza stop on bus route 30.

When the loading dock door is closed, please ring bell next to the door for assistance. 

GENERAL GUIDELINES:

The Friends accepts donations of gently-used books and other materials to sell in order to raise funds  for AADL programming.  All donated materials must be in saleable condition. Please review the guidelines below for more information on what we accept. If items you are donating do not follow the guidelines, please be prepared that we may not accept them. 

• Donations should be bagged in clean, paper grocery-sized bags, or boxed in clean small, cardboard boxes (such as small moving boxes or banker boxes). We cannot take reusable bags or plastic bins. They will be returned to the donor.
• We do not accept more than 2 bags/boxes of CDs, 3 bags/boxes of DVDs, or 10 bags/boxes of books at a time.
• Items must be in generally good condition: free of mold, mildew, smoke and pet odors, dust, and cobwebs. No books with ripped or missing pages or covers, loose pages, or broken spines, highlighting or handwriting.
• Puzzles and board games must be complete with no missing pieces. CDs and DVDs must be scratch-free, sets must include all discs, and must come in their original unbroken cases. 
• Particularly if boxes have been stored in a garage or basement, please check them for insect infestation, rodent damage, or droppings. We obviously cannot accept these.
• Please be sure to leaf through all books and other materials to remove valuable items such as photos, checks, cash, and important documents before donating your materials. FAADL is not responsible for lost valuables or books donated in error.
  
   
  
  ITEMS WE ACCEPT (must be in good condition)
  
    ✅ Complete board games and puzzles
    ✅ Recent fiction (published in last 15 years)
    ✅ Classic literature
    ✅ Nonfiction: including art, architecture, biography, cookbooks, crafts, gardening, history, home      repair, humor, memoir, nature,  performing arts, philosophy, pets, political science, psychology, life and physical sciences, self-help.
    ✅ Children's books
    ✅ Travel books published in the past five years
    ✅ Textbooks published in the past five years
    ✅ DVDs in good condition in original, unbroken cases (Limit of three boxes)
    ✅ CDs in good condition in original, unbroken cases (two-box maximum per donation)
  
  
  
  ITEMS WE DO NOT ACCEPT
  
    ❌Romance mass market novels
    ❌Test prep books
    ❌Curriculum books and teacher guides
    ❌Reference materials such as atlases, dictionaries (including language and game-related), encyclopedias, and thesauruses.
    ❌Travel books published more than five years ago
    ❌Textbooks published more than five years ago
    ❌Books with outdated information
    ❌Book collections with more than five volumes (ie: George Eliot's Works, etc.)
    ❌Binders and office supplies
    ❌Incomplete puzzles and board games
    ❌Scratched CDs and DVDs, or incomplete sets of DVDs and CDs 
    ❌Loose CDs, empty CD cases, CD organizers with or without CDs 
    ❌VHS tapes
    ❌Records/Vinyl
    ❌Music or audio books on cassette 
    ❌Magazines
    ❌Catalogs