English
Noun
book dumping (uncountable)
- (idiomatic) The practice of donating old used books that burden rather than assist communities.
- 1993 Bernth Lindfors, "Desert Gold: Irrigation Scemes for Ending the Book Drought," in D. Riemenschneider and F. Shultze-Engler, eds. African Literatures in the Eighties, Rodopi, Amsterdam, 1993. p. 36
- ...there is some sensitivity in Africa to being the recipient of the West's unwanted or secondhand surplus goods, and sometimes well-intentioned gifts of educational materials have been criticized by their recipients as examples of "book dumping" - equivalent, that is, to garbage disposal or to the removal to Africa of European and American toxic wastes.
- 2003 Donna Nixon, "From North Carolina to KwaZulu Natal: World Library Partnership," North Carolina Libraries, Winter 2003, pp. 146-151.
- Many book donation programs, though well-intentioned, engage in “book dumping,” a practice of shipping old used books that burden rather than assist communities.
- 2015 Elizabeth Giles, "Evaluating Lubuto Library Collections: A Case Study in Dynamic and Strategic Children’s Collection Development," IFLA WLIC 2015
- ... the unfortunate reality for much of the developing world has been that a combination of book dumping, poverty and underfunding of libraries has severely limited the ability of librarians to collect relevant, high-quality resources (Sturges, 2014; Edem, 2010; Otike, 1993).
- (literally) The discarding of quantities of books.
- 1996 Nicholson Baker, "The Author vs. the Library," The New Yorker, October 14, 1996, p. 50
- Since January, the book-dumping has ceased, following an expose by the San Francisco Chronicle.