Where is the closest book drop-off to Sandia Labs / Kirtland AFB?

For Sandia Labs employees, Kirtland AFB military and civilian personnel, or Air Force Research Laboratory staff:

• NMLP 24/7 outdoor donation box — 5445 Edith Blvd NE, Unit A, Albuquerque NM 87107. Roughly 10-12 minutes from Kirtland main gate via I-25 north → Lomas / Edith. Accessible day or night, no appointment, no checks, no paperwork.
• NMLP free on-base pickup — NMLP picks up at base housing and DoD office cleanouts on Kirtland. No DoD ID required from the requester (NMLP just needs an address). No rank questions. Spouse-coordinated pickups while service member is TDY are routine.
• Goodwill of New Mexico Eubank location — about 8 minutes from the Kirtland east gate via Eubank / Central. Drop-off, condition restrictions, tax receipt available.
• The Base Exchange (BX) thrift store on Kirtland — accepts limited donations from base personnel, restricted to military/dependent ID holders.

For retired Sandia / Kirtland / LANL scientists with substantial scientific libraries: NMLP handles full library cleanouts including reference books, journal sets, technical manuals, and the regional NM history collections common in retired scientist households. See the Sandia/Kirtland/LANL scientific libraries pillar.

Free pickup at 702-496-4214.

Retired-scientist libraries get a different level of attention

A forty-year Sandia or LANL career leaves a basement that looks like nothing a thrift store can read: Bell System Technical Journal runs, original IBM System/360 and Cray documentation, RAND reports in their printed covers, Springer yellow-series mathematics, a red-cloth Feynman Lectures set, sometimes a Knuth first printing. For a one-shelf library, text shelf photos and I will give you a read on what is there. For a basement-scale library, I do a free walkthrough first and flag the trophy clusters before anything gets boxed — keep what you want handled differently, and I take the rest. The authentication methodology I publish applies to technical books too.

One hard rule for this audience: books or reports carrying heavy classification stamps — CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, RESTRICTED DATA — go back to the lab through classification review. I do not handle that material under any circumstances. Light Sandia Corporation or LASL property stamps on personal copies are usually fine and sometimes add provenance.

Box mechanics for a badge-and-commute schedule

The drop box runs 24/7, 365 days a year, with no interaction — the stop takes about five minutes, and the lot is lit and vehicle-accessible at any hour, so before-shift and midnight drops are normal. Bags or boxes, no sorting; DVDs, CDs, and vinyl ride along fine. During heavy weeks I clear the box several times a day, so if it looks full, leave the load beside it and it will be collected within hours. Past roughly ten boxes, text 702-496-4214 instead — I will either meet you at the warehouse or come to you, and base-housing pickups on Kirtland are routine.