UNM end-of-semester move-out is a high-volume window for NMLP. Students cleaning out dorms, apartments, and Greek houses often have stacks of books, and all of them are welcome: this semester's editions still on the syllabus, nursing, engineering, business, and law texts, plus older editions, electives, foreign-language texts, supplementary readings, and reference books.
NMLP picks up at:
- Hokona Hall, Coronado Hall, Laguna-DeVargas Hall, Lobo Village, Casas del Rio, Lobo Rainforest
- Off-campus apartments around UNM (Nob Hill, Sycamore, EDo, Silver Hill, Princeton)
- Greek houses on Mesa Vista and Sigma Chi Road
- Graduate-student housing along Yale and Lomas
- Faculty offices in Mitchell Hall, Dane Smith, Humanities, Social Sciences, the Castetter Hall complex (end-of-semester cleanouts and faculty retirements)
The fastest way to clear end-of-semester books:
- Box the whole stack together, current editions included. Skip the separate stop at a buyback counter or a trade-in site; those accept a short list of titles, and NMLP takes every one.
- A few boxes: the 24/7 drop box at 5445 Edith Blvd NE, covered and waterproof, outside the gate near the road. If it is full, text 505-250-3804 or come by 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., when someone is at the warehouse to help unload.
- A room, apartment, or Greek house full: free pickup for all of it — electives, supplementary readings, foreign-language texts, art history textbooks, lab manuals, anything water-damaged or marked up
Free pickup, scheduled by route. Call or text 505-250-3804. See UNM Textbook Donation Pickup.
Need books gone in Albuquerque?
Free pickup, any condition, scheduling by route. Or use the 24/7 drop box, a covered box outside the gate, by the road, at 5445 Edith Blvd NE.
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