Appendix 5. Gift Policy and Transfer of Ownership Form

Please print out and complete. Return to any Springfield City Library branch.

SPRINGFIELD CITY LIBRARY

220 State Street Springfield, Massachusetts 01103 (413) 263-6828

GIFT POLICY

The library selectively accepts gifts of books, periodicals, audio and video recordings, and other material for public use. In accepting gifts it is the library's policy that:

1. The appraisal of a gift to the library for tax purposes is the responsibility of the donor.

2. The library, in accepting the gift, obtains free and complete legal title to it.

3. The library reserves the right to determine housing and location of the material.

4. The library will determine whether or not material should be added to the collection. If, for some reason, it is decided that the materials should not become a part of the collection (e.g., duplicate copy, outside collecting area of the library, poor condition), the library reserves the right to dispose of the material in the most advantageous manner possible.

Gifts may be accepted on bases other than the above at the discretion of the Springfield Board of Library Commissioners.
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DOCUMENT OF TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP

I hereby present as an unrestricted gift to the Springfield City Library the materials described below.

Date _____________________ Name ____________________________________

Branch/Dept._______________ Address ___________________________________

Received by ________________ Signature __________________________________

Description of gift:

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Acknowledgement _______________________ Date __________________________

(Director's Office) (Director's Office)

Rev. 1/2006