You cannot donate a old book to a library and assume that they will keep it and lend it out. The best you can hope is that they sell it for a dollar at their n

You cannot donate a old book to a library and assume that they will keep it and lend it out. The best you can hope is that they sell it for a dollar at their next fund raiser. Only if it is rare and already known as a great book or historic or worth a lot of money is it likely someone will see the same value you see in it. Maybe the time for non-lending libraries And public reading rooms has come back.