Begin with context
Tell us about the organization, the material, its location, and the decision that needs to be made.
Businesses & libraries
Recognize what matters. Determine the appropriate next home.
Kansas Book Depository works with organizations whose books, records, and printed history are approaching a decision point. Contact us before materials are separated, discarded, or dispersed.
Discuss an Organizational Collection
A capable regional partner
Begin before the materials are separated.
A first conversation can preserve context, identify what deserves closer attention, and keep an office move or collection transition from becoming an all-or-nothing decision.
The organization does not need to inventory or organize everything before contacting us.
For businesses and community organizations
Historical Materials Review
Businesses, schools, churches, associations, and other longstanding organizations often have historical materials stored in offices, basements, file rooms, and warehouses.
These may include catalogs, photographs, newsletters, ledgers, advertising, product literature, commemorative publications, correspondence, architectural records, and other printed pieces documenting the organization and its community.
Over time, responsibility for these materials can become unclear. An office move, change in leadership, shortage of space, merger, closure, or routine cleanout may place decades of history at risk before anyone has determined what deserves to be preserved.
KBD can visit the location, look at what has accumulated, identify material that merits closer attention, and discuss practical options for preserving, organizing, selling, donating, or rehoming it. The organization does not need to inventory or organize everything before contacting us.
Every project begins with a complimentary conversation to understand the materials, circumstances, and goals. More extensive on-site review, research, inventory assessment, or ongoing consulting may require a fee, which will be discussed before work begins.
For libraries
Collection Transition Services
Libraries are already professional stewards of their collections. We approach them as a capable regional partner when books and printed materials no longer fit their collecting scope or need another responsible destination.
This may include withdrawn or duplicate books, large donations outside the library’s scope, local-history material needing further attention, or collections affected by renovation, relocation, closure, or storage limitations.
Depending upon the collection and the institution’s needs, KBD services may include:
- Evaluation of books and printed material
- Purchase when appropriate
- Removal and logistical coordination
- Routing material toward resale, research, donation, or another suitable home
- Help identifying another destination when KBD is not the right fit
We respect each library’s policies, procedures, timelines, and responsibility to its community.
How a project begins
A clear first conversation.
Share the whole picture
Send overview photographs or arrange an initial visit when the material warrants an on-site review.
Outline next steps
KBD identifies practical options and any extended consulting, evaluation, or removal work that may require a fee.