Here’s a great initiative: the Dewey Donation System.
It’s very simple: you donate books (new or used) to libraries or individuals who are in need, and this is the site that organises it.
So far the project has helped the following:
• the Oakland Public Library (whose funding was cut so much they couldn’t afford to buy books)
• the San Diego Public Library (whose holdings were damaged by fire)
• 2400 schoolchildren in India (survivors of the tsunami)
• Harrison County Library System (post Hurricane Katrina)
Here’s a blurb from the site explaining how the system works:
If you’re a librarian, you’ll be able to register your library and what it needs. If you’re a donor, you can look up your community (or maybe where you grew up, or where your niece lives, or where you once had a great cup of coffee), and send a little help their way. Or maybe it’ll inspire you to get involved in your own community, working with your library system to remind people that while Borders might have great coffee, nothing compares to the smell of a reference section.
Hear, hear!
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