By now we are all familiar with theives stealing expensive medical books and selling on Ebay. There are countless anecdotes of these occurances. But there seems to be little on using Ebay to help your library. But I just read an article where public library volunteers began selling collectible books (weeded from the library collection) on ebay.

Volunteers aid library with eBay book sales
Of $62,500 donated in February by a support group, $3,500 came from online sales.
By RYAN KESER
June 20, 2005

"The committee began selling books online in 2000, when McKinin noticed some of the donated books were worth much more than Friends were able to sell them for at their weekly, monthly and quarterly book sales.
'It occurred to me we might make more money on some of them, and eBay seemed the most viable agency,' she said."

If you library is anything like mine, you weed your books by either throwing them in the trash or setting them on the "Never Ending Book Sale" cart in hopes that somebody will want it for the bargain price of $1.

Here is an interesting way of possibly getting a little more bang for you buck.