What to do with the weeded books?

During our secondary library weed, the ES librarian and I decided to weed our professional library as well.  We now had several thousand weeded books.  What to do with all those books?  A few ideas below....

BOOK ART

The middle school art class made these amazing creations which are now on display in our library.

	We keep all our thicker books in a box in the back room so art students can practice carving as they work towards a final creation.

BOOK TEA
We hosted a book tea for teachers and staff.  We worried we would be challenged for giving away so many "good" books.  But, teachers were grateful.  Students also took books.  Once Chinese student came by and took every book on China we had weeded.  Some staff members shopped for Christmas for their families.  The book "Too Cool to Get Married" was put in a teachers' mailbox by a fellow staff member and is still circulating around the school as a joke.

Other things we did with our books:

1. Our high school Service Learning groups took boxes of books for their organizations (orphanages, schools, etc.)
2. A parent working for an international aid organization took many of our fiction books for libraries she is helping to set up throughout the country.
3. One of our secretaries has parents who run a school and she took several boxes of books
4. Last Resort: Once we gave away everything we could, whatever was left went to our general services office.  They sell them in bulk at an auction where they are then resold or recycled.