Maybe some of the books are still there now if things haven't already been taken for whatever reasons people might have had to take them. That's another thing I worry about, who was here to take all the things and where did they go? But kind of another story, it's not the books. Might not hurt to look though, since there's no place else to really go this week unless you're with a group for supplies.
I don't even know what ulterior motives would look like here. We're all stuck together whether we like it or not, making everybody mad because you're trying to get something just for yourself by using everybody else seems like a bad idea.