Donations

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Thank you for considering a gift of money or books to your Carbon County Library System. While tax funds finance basic library services, private contributions like yours enhance the library. We know that Carbon County citizens are proud of their public library system because they use the library. Your generosity will benefit people of all ages across the breadth of Carbon County.

Gifts may be in the form of cash, securities, life insurance, real estate or other personal property, such as books. The opportunities for charitable contributions are many and varied.

Donors may choose to give either directly to the Carbon County Library System or to the Carbon County Library Foundation, depending on what they would like their gift to support.

Donations made directly to the Carbon County Library System may support staffing and other Library System priorities. Please contact your local library for information about giving directly to CCLS. 

Donations to the Carbon County Library Foundation help enhance and sustain library services across Carbon County through support for collections, technology, programs, equipment, and specific operating expenses. Learn more or give at givebutter.com/cclf2026.

If you are considering a gift for a particular branch, program, collection, or purpose, please contact the appropriate organization before donating to discuss whether the gift can be accepted and used for that purpose.

The simplest way to make a gift to the Carbon County Library System is to write a check payable to the ‘Carbon County Library Foundation’.

The CCLF also accepts outright gifts of appreciated marketable securities, and will be happy to assist you in transferring these assets.

Donations can also be made via Square, Here

Donors are increasingly naming the CCLF as a beneficiary in their will, life insurance or retirement funds. These planned gifts, which you can arrange now but give later, can be revised as needed. The CCLF can also provide you with information about establishing a charitable trust that will provide you with income during your lifetime.

An outright gift of unencumbered real estate may enable you to benefit the library significantly. For more information, please contact the library director.

The Library System recognizes that donations are an important source of library materials. Please review the Collection Development Policy for a list of items that we accept. Once a donation is given to the Library System it becomes the property of the System and will not be returned for any reason. Donors are informed of the following possibilities for disposition of their donations:

• Included in the collection of the library where donated;
• Included in the collection of other Carbon County libraries;
• Offered to a library outside the System;
• Offered to the public for sale;
• Discarded

Art, special collections and antique furniture are sometimes appropriate gifts for the library. If you are considering such a donation, please consult the library director to confirm that your gift can be used as you wish.