Re: Book donations
Excellent post, Mary Anne! Best refutation I've read of the misconception that librarians are essentially just filing clerks who put the books back on the shelf in the slots ordained by Mr. Dewey.
The computer industry popularized the new-fangled term "knowledge worker", but librarians have been knowledge workers from day one. You're constructing a framework for knowledge, customized for your patrons.
You have my vote to be the first librarian in space!
--Robert