Gifts and Donations

Cerritos Library is pleased to receive your donations of gently used books and other materials. Donated items may be added to our collection or may be directed to the Friends of the Library to sell in the Friends Store or at their Book Sales.

Small donations of materials can be dropped off at the Circulation Desk. Larger volumes of materials can be taken to the Library’s loading dock. For tax purposes, the donor may complete a form titled “Donation of Library Materials Received.” A staff member will fill out a receipt, giving a rough estimate of the number of books donated. For more information, call (562) 916-1340.

When thinking about donating items, please consider whether they meet the following criteria:

We can use gently used, recently published books including textbooks adult, young adult, and children’s books paperbacks and hard covers regular print and large print bestsellers and recently published fiction & nonfiction classics (in excellent condition, please) non-English language materials newer popular magazines about hobbies, cooking etc. recent National Geographic magazines CDs, (please, no scratches) DVDs videos & cassettes (no home recorded videos)

We are unable to use books with broken bindings or pages, or sections missing moldy, mildewed or damp books books marked with highlighter or pen paperbacks with yellowed or brittle pages books with outdated information more than 5 years old (health, law, computer or business books) encyclopedia sets more than 10 years old textbooks more than 5 years old vinyl records Reader’s Digest condensed books weekly news magazines (Time, Newsweek etc.) any material copied from originals computer software