There are three ways to donate books, periodicals, or manuscripts to the DAR Library.
Before donating any specific materials, please review the DAR Library Collection Development policy and our Guidelines for Donations. The Library will not accept donations of any materials that do not conform to our Collection Development policy or that duplicate materials already in the Collection. If you have any additional questions about donating materials, please contact [email protected] or [email protected].
The easiest way to make a donation to the DAR Library is through the online wish list. The wish list offers materials that have been selected as appropriate resources for inclusion in the DAR Library collection. To utilize this method of donation, simply review the wish list, choose the item that you wish to donate, and complete the online payment process.
The second way is to locate a book or other publication you believe would be relevant to the Collection and use the online Library Donation Form to submit the title for review. Do not send books or other publications to the library without going through this process; we will return unsolicited material. If your donation is approved, you will receive instructions on how to send the physical item to the DAR Library.
While many donations to the DAR Library qualify as book credits for your chapter, please be sure to review all of the book credit requirements on the wish list and or the donation form for specific book credit criteria and exclusions.
The third way to donate physical materials to the DAR Library is to submit unpublished genealogical information for inclusion as part of the manuscript collection. Here are the DAR Library Manuscript Collections guidelines. If you have unpublished genealogical materials that you wish to donate, please contact [email protected] and include “MSS donation” in the subject of your email.
The DAR Library cannot accept any digital publications (e-books) as donations at this time.
If you wish to offer financial support for the Library’s book purchasing, we encourage monetary donations to be sent to the Friends of the Library fund. As of November 1, 2020, the Library can no longer accommodate targeted financial donations for books on specific subjects. The methods listed above are the only ways to donate publications to the library.
Published, unpublished or ephemeral items that do not fit within the Collections Development policy of the DAR Library, may be more suited to DAR Museum, the DAR Americana Collection or the DAR Archives. We encourage donors to contact those departments for additional information about the donation requirements for each of those collections.
We are grateful to all of our supporters, past and present, who have helped develop and expand the DAR Library’s Collection into one of the premiere genealogical libraries in the country.
