Approved by:
Board of Trustees

All potential gifts to the library system must be reviewed to ensure compatibility of the donor’s wishes and the library system’s needs. Occasionally, it will be necessary for the library system to decline the opportunity for a potential gift. This will allow the donor to present the gift to an institution whose needs are more closely aligned with the intent of the gift.

Donors will be encouraged to allow flexibility in the use of their gifts to the library system as circumstances and needs change.

The library system will be pleased to consider such gifts as books and other published and unpublished materials, securities, real property, works of art, equipment, furnishings, facilities, and other items. The library system reserves the right to convert such gifts into more effective assets or resources rather than to utilize them in the form received. In all cases, the cost of maintaining the gift in the system will be included in consideration of the acceptance of the gift.

Material deemed unsuitable or unnecessary will not be returned to the original donor but may be donated to the Friends of Hall County Library for sale to raise additional funds.

For the protection of the donor and the library system, the responsibility of obtaining any appraisals as to the value of the gift to the library system shall remain with the donor.

The wishes of donors will provide guidance as to the manner of acknowledgement of gifts to the library system and recognition of benefactors. Appropriateness in such matters will be a continuing goal of the library system. Appropriate bookplates and other recognition plates or acknowledgements will be determined by and the responsibility of the library system.

The Hall County Library Board reserves the right to reject any gift to the library system and to make exceptions to this policy for good and sufficient cause.