New Orleans Library Book Collecting

Just a reminder that the New Orleans Library still needs books.

If you think you live too far away to collect books and mail them, let me just point out that I’ve collected several large piles of books thanks to generous souls in my writing group and at work and in a test mailing last week, I discovered that mailing books at the media rate through the post office is really quiet cheap. When I think that someone else could be making good use of those books rather than having them collecting dust on my overcrowded bookshelves, it makes me feel all warm and fuzzy.

Plus, my mother has concocted a rather smart plan. She’s collected some books from her friends in New Mexico on her own thanks to an email she forwarded from me. A friend of theirs in the process of moving from New Orleans to Las Vegas is making back and forth trips between the cities and on his next stop back toward New Orleans, she’ll pass on the books to be dropped off at the New Orleans Public Library from the citizens of Silver City, New Mexico. Of course, you do kind of have to know someone who’s going that way for the plan to work.

As always, if you live in the Portland, ME, area and can’t afford to mail books but would like to donate, contact me via the contact link in the sidebar and we’ll work out an arrangement.

The library is also accepting monetary donations.

tags: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, Public Library, relief

One comment

1. on June 11, 2007 at 2:55 pm

   Mary Cerny said:

   I will be moving from NE to AZ in the near future. I currently have approx 1,000 books to be moved. Almost all are Harlequins. Some are over 30 yrs old in hardback with gold on front. Am wondering if your oganization would be interested at all. Thank you

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