Donate money  

Donate money directly to the library to add new adult, teen, and children's books to the library's collection. 

Donate cash to the Friends of the Library.  Funds raised help support the following library programs:

• purchase of books and equipment

• free concerts

• children's and teen programs and the Main Library and the East Valley Branch

• Second Tuesday Book Club

• Bilingual Book Club                 
          

Purchase a needed book from our Amazon.com Wish List   

Escondido Public Library has a Wish List on Amazon.com.  Select a book from the list and purchase it, Amazon will send it directly to us.                    
        

Donate gently used books and other materials

All donations are greatly appreciated.  The library reviews donated items then adds them to the collection or sells them in the Friends Book Shop.  The money raised by the book shop sales is then used to purchase other library materials.  Acceptable donations include:

• Books in good condition, except textbooks and Reader's Digest Condensed books.
• Media materials - VHS, DVD, CD, audiocassettes, books on tape, vinyl records
• Magazines - current within one year.
• National Geographic - current within one year.
• Women's magazines, Craft/Art magazines - all years if in good condition.

The library cannot accept encyclopedias, computers, printers, or monitors.

Bringing donations to the library

Patrons wishing to donate items may drop items in the donation bin inside the library and get a tax receipt at the Customer Service Desk.

If patron has too much donation material to fit in the donation bin, they may ask for assistance at the Customer Service Desk.  The library can lend the patron a cart to help bring the materials inside or get staff to assist in transporting the materials.