Tamaqua Area School District wants to transform its libraries and donate its unused books.

On Tuesday, school board members approved administrators’ plans to begin downsizing the collections at the district’s libraries.

“We are changing our libraries and the way that we use them,” said Superintendent Ray Kinder Jr.

The process will take place leading up to the start of the 2022-23 school year. Kinder said that teachers will have a chance to go through the library and pick out books that are still relevant to their classes.

The rest will be offered to the Tamaqua Public Library.

Kinder said that more and more, students use more digital and multimedia resources when they are doing research in the library.

“Students do not take out the Encyclopaedia Britannica anymore - or the World Atlas,” he said.