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Meaning: (idiomatic)The practice of donating old used books that burden rather than assist communities.1993Bernth 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.2003Donna 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.2015Elizabeth 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 ofbook 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).; (literal)The discarding of quantities of books.1996October 14, Nicholson Baker, “The Author vs. the Library”, inThe New Yorker, page50:Since January, thebook-dumpinghas ceased, following an expose by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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