Donations

Halifax Public Libraries collects materials related to Halifax County and Nova Scotia. The Library also collects select materials about New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland. If you have materials you would like to donate, or have recently published a book, please consult the donations policy, or call 490-5710. The Library also accepts cash donations, which can be used to purchase new or rare materials.

We welcome any of the following:

  • biographies
  • church histories
  • cook books
  • community history
  • genealogy indexes and transcriptions
  • government documents
  • Halifax County magazines and community papers
  • literature
  • military
  • music
  • natural history
  • newspapers on microfilm
  • 19th and 20th century maps of Halifax and Nova Scotia
  • peoples of the Maritimes (Acadians, Mi’kmaq, Loyalists, African Nova Scotians, etc)
  • postcards
  • published family histories
  • ships, shipping and shipwrecks
  • songbooks
  • studies on culture, economy, institutions, transportation, sports, etc
  • telephone and city directories
  • vintage tourist pamphlets and guidebooks

Sorry, we cannot accept:

  • archival manuscripts and records
  • artifacts
  • musty, water-damaged, missing pages or highlighted passages
  • photographs
  • unpublished family histories
 
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