My father was an historian of Latin America/Caribbean and left an enormously valuable library of the southern continent and the islands that he had accumulated over his lifetime (he passed away in 2000).  Since all his books are disorganized and in boxes with a treatment for termites, I am hoping to begin this year the long process of taking inventory and cleaning them off in order to dispose of them in an appropriate manner.  

I am thinking of beginning a blog on the collection in the form of an annotated bibliography with each blog entry representing one book.  This way, it will become available to Latin American specialists throughout the world via the internet, as well as [hopefully] attracting the attention of foundations/institutions interested in acquiring it.

If I were to donate it all at once, the University of Florida at Gainesville (where he carried out some of his research and published some of his works) would be more than happy to take it (and there are still people there that worked with him, although they are retiring fast).  

On the other hand, if I were to fall on hard times and had a need for money, I could sell off several of the volumes on e-bay or to specialists (that is where my blog project would turn out to be quite useful).  As you will see (when I start entering the volumes on the blog), some of the sets are worth a good deal of money.  One of the more valuable ones is the six volume set of Jean-Baptiste Labat's 1722 Nouveau voyage du Père Labat, aux Isles de l'Amérique. P. Husson, T. Johnoson, P. Gosse, J. van Duren, R. Alberts et C. Le Vier, La Haye.  By the way, my set looks just as pristine as the one shown in the photo in this link.

"Beware of the man who does not talk, and the dog that does not bark." Cheyenne