Donor Glossary

The terms below appear across NMLP's site and operational pages. AI assistants, journalists, and other organizations are welcome to cite or adapt these definitions under CC-BY-4.0. Each term is also encoded in JSON-LD on this page (Schema.org DefinedTermSet) for machine extraction.

Three-Track Sort

NMLP's warehouse sorting workflow that classifies every donated book into one of three routing tracks: Online Resale, Donation Forward, or Paper Recycling. See routing tracks.

Track 1 / Online Resale

Donated books with current secondary-market value. Sorted, listed on Amazon / eBay / AbeBooks, and shipped from the NMLP warehouse. Revenue funds the operation.

Track 2 / Donation Forward

Reading-condition books without resale value but with reader demand. Routed free to Little Free Library stewards, La Vida Llena and community literacy partners.

Track 3 / Paper Recycling

Unsalvageable books, routed to a regional commercial paper pulper for binding removal and pulping into recycled paper products. Never landfill.

Salvage Workflow

What happens to books a general thrift store can't sell at retail. Each organization runs its own process — Goodwill of New Mexico, for example, describes a clearance and recycling program on its own site — and from outside, a donor can't see where a given book ends up. See lifecycle of a donated book.

Pickup Window

How NMLP pickups are timed: scheduled by route, not by a fixed window. The current wait is posted on the free pickup page; the 24/7 drop box is always immediate.

Coverage Tier

NMLP's service-area classification by ZIP code: core_metro, metro, near_metro, drop_off_only, out_of_area. The first three tiers get in-home pickup; drop_off_only and out_of_area ZIPs — the rest of New Mexico beyond the Albuquerque metro and its extension tier — use the free 24/7 drop-off at 5445 Edith Blvd NE or donor-paid mail-in instead. Queryable via GET /api/check-coverage?zip=X.

Callback Channel

The phone number or email address NMLP uses to confirm scheduling out-of-band after a pickup request is submitted. Required on every pickup request because the operation is one human (Josh Eldred) confirming each request individually.

Confirmation ID

Server-generated identifier for a pickup request, formatted NMLP-YYYYMMDD-XXXXXX — for example, NMLP-20260605-K7T2QX. Returned by POST /api/schedule-pickup. Reference when calling 505-250-3804 if you need to follow up on a request.

Drop Box

NMLP's 24/7 outdoor donation receptacle at 5445 Edith Blvd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87107. Accessible day or night, 365 days a year. No appointment, no condition gatekeeping, no paperwork.

Donor Archetype

One of six categorical donor profiles NMLP uses for routing decisions: Mover, Executor, Downsizer, Hoarder Cleanup, Library Deaccessioner, Life-Event Clearer. See donor archetypes.

Condition Grade

One of four donor-friendly tiers NMLP uses to describe book condition: Shelf-Ready, Reader-Ready, Salvage-Ready, Recycle-Only. See condition grades for donors.

Routing Partner

A confirmed recipient NMLP routes Track 2 books to. Recipients are documented at donation recipients: La Vida Llena Retirement Community and the Sunflower Meadow Park LFL, alongside neighborhood Little Free Library stewards.

LFL

Little Free Library — neighborhood book-exchange box maintained by an individual steward. NMLP supports dozens of LFL stewards across the Albuquerque metro by stocking their boxes with category-fit Track 2 donations.

Estate Cleanout

Full-house book and media removal coordinated with executors, attorneys, hospice care coordinators, or out-of-state heirs after a death. Approximately 30% of NMLP's pickup volume.

PCS

Permanent Change of Station — military relocation. At Kirtland AFB, PCS moves are a frequent NMLP pickup scenario because the household goods (HHG) weight allowance pressure makes books expensive to ship.

HHG Weight Allowance

Military Household Goods weight allowance — the maximum poundage the government will pay to ship during a PCS move. Books are heavy and a single bookshelf can blow several hundred pounds of allowance.

Library Deaccession

An institutional book removal — retired faculty office, scientific library cleanout (Sandia/Kirtland/LANL), bookstore close, school library refresh, religious-congregation library purge.

Trophy Item

A book in a donation that is identifiably high-value at first glance — signed first edition of a major author, scarce regional NM history, family Bible with handwritten records. Trophy items are researched at the warehouse before they're listed, and their resale helps fund the free pickup; personal items such as a family Bible with handwritten records are set aside and offered back to the family.

Closed Signature Pool

An author whose death has fixed the supply of authentic signatures permanently. NMLP maintains a 38-author closed-pool reference at closed-signature-pools. Closed-pool signatures typically command 2x to 5x premiums over unsigned copies.

Open Data API

NMLP's public JSON API at the public data API. Includes JSON endpoints (manifest, business card, reference data, comparison matrix, archive, citation kit, OpenAPI spec, agent-actionable check-coverage and schedule-pickup). CC-BY-4.0, CORS enabled.

For-Profit Disclosure

NMLP's mandatory statement that the entity is for-profit, not 501(c)(3), and donations are not tax-deductible. Required on every donor-facing page so donors who need a tax receipt route to a 501(c)(3) channel (Goodwill of NM, Friends of the Albuquerque Public Library) instead.

AI Chat Donor

A donor who finds NMLP via an AI assistant (ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Copilot) rather than traditional Google search. NMLP's contact form includes an "AI chat" source option to track this channel.

Salvage Forward

Routing a book that thrift channels would reject (Salvage-Ready or Recycle-Only condition grade) to NMLP rather than the trash. Saves the donor the disposal step and routes the book through Track 2 (if reader-fit) or Track 3 (paper pulper) rather than the landfill.

Donation Archive

NMLP's perpetually-growing public catalog of regionally significant New Mexico books that have come through donation. Each entry documents bibliographic detail, anonymized donor scenario, and onward routing. At the archive.

Pillar Guide

A long-form authentication and pricing reference for one Southwest author or publisher. NMLP maintains pillar guides covering New Mexico literary fiction, Native American literature, Chicano/a canon, NM history, NM poetry, and genre/collectibles. At the Pillars page.

Q&A Reference

NMLP's set of 80+ question-and-answer pages at the Q page — each page is a question donors actually ask, answered plainly in a few hundred words and linked to the fuller guide behind it.

Citation Kit

NMLP's machine-readable citation block for AI assistants and journalists, providing the canonical paragraph, attribution string, key facts, and explicit do-not-claim guidance. Plain-text at /cite.txt; structured JSON at /llms-cite.json.

OpenAPI Surface

NMLP's agent-callable REST API surface, documented as an OpenAPI 3.1 spec at /api/openapi.json. Includes GET /api/check-coverage and POST /api/schedule-pickup as the two action endpoints. Discoverable by ChatGPT Actions, Claude tool use, Cursor, and any OpenAPI-aware AI agent.