Book Drive Committee
Pam
I have emailed Ms. Duerson in regards to our Book Drive and her
response is the following:
"I wish I had seen this before Sunday. You can get books free from
the Jefferson Parish Book Fair in the Spring, but the event was today
(past Thursday). We will have books to give away Mon. at school until
they are gone if you can get there to get some. Let us know
specifically what you need, and the Reading Department might can
collect some books for you." Linda Duerson
We have a short deadline that is soon approaching. Have we decided on
which Saturday of this month we will organize a book donation?
Which Wednesday will we coordinate a book donation day at what school?
Other ideas for corporate sponsorships can be Barnes & Noble & Amazon
& Bradford Publishing.
Ini regards to publicize this project, we can use Facebook, Google
Group site and Yahoo Group site.
Another idea and possible future goal could be to have a Book mobile
library.
Two people who may be resourceful is Mrs. Doris Hicks who is the
principal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Academy of Technology and
Science from the Lower Ninth Ward and Better World Books who has
supported book drives in New Orleans.
What are your thoughts?
Pam Chappelle-Lyons, M.Ed.
Dawn D. Domengeaux
answered but why do we have six committees and planning meetings for a
library book drive that's due in like three weeks? We haven't collected
one book and we want media coverage and corporate sponsorships? I mean
really? Shouldn't we take a look at the approved list and start
soliciting donations like last week? We can ask for new or gently used
books or the donors can provide gift cards to book stores (particularly
local book stores). It seems we're making this harder than it has to be.
I'm all for a well thought out project but we have three weeks to get it
going and actually present our outcome. Just my $19.13 worth...
Dawn D. Domengeaux
Community Outreach Manager
New Orleans Redevelopment Authority
1340 Poydras Street, Suite 600
New Orleans, LA 70112
504.658.4423 (office)
504.416.5349 (mobile)
504.658.4551 (fax)
dddome...@cityofno.com
www.noraworks.org
George-Hirons, Amy
I am putting together a letter that I will send out to everyone later
this afternoon which you can each send to your network of friends and
business contacts to seek donations for our book drive for O. Perry
Walker College and Career Preparatory High School and Community Center.
I sent an e-mail to and just got off the phone with their Assistant
Principal, Mark Bailey, and he is meeting with their librarian this
morning to get a sense of their needs and such. He will send me a list
later this afternoon which I will either incorporate in to the letter or
send along as a separate document, depending on the scope of that
information.
The up-shot of their situation is this: they cleaned out an antiquated
and outmoded library in anticipation of funding from Laura Bush's
library re-building initiative. Once they had gotten a room ready to go,
they got word that the funding from her organization was only going to
cover the elementary schools in Algiers so they were left with a freshly
cleaned empty room filled with shelves. Mr. Bailey reports that it is
about 80% empty.
In the meantime, I need a few bits of information from y'all in order
for this letter to really work. Mostly, I need specifics on the time,
date and location of the Book Drive (drop off(s)) and a date for when we
would like to deliver the books to the school (these may or may not be
the same thing). I can ask Mr. Bailey about whether or not Monday, the
16th would be a good day for them or what not, but someone will have to
talk over from there on that side of things. I can't handle the details
of the book drop itself as I will be out of town from November 15-21.
This is what I've got for the paragraph on specifics so far:
"We will be gathering books on [???Saturday, November 14 from 9:00AM to
3:00PM at location???] or you can drop books off in advance at the house
of project member Professor Amy George-Hirons at 1726 Broadway."
Please give me any additional details for this paragraph by 2PM today
and I will incorporate them in to this letter before I leave work at
3PM.
I will send a copy of this letter to everyone by 3PM and you can then
edit it and personalize it for your group of contacts and we can spend
the next week or so getting our many contacts in line to rebuild this
school's library.
Best,
Amy
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Dr. Amy George-Hirons
Basic Language Program Director and Lecturer of Spanish
Department of Spanish and Portuguese
304 Newcomb Hall
Tulane University
New Orleans, LA 70118
office: 318B Newcomb Hall
504-862-3422
age...@tulane.edu
office hours: MR 9:30-10:30, W 2:00-3:00 or by appointment
Nayita Wilson
Niya
George-Hirons, Amy
My letter is attached. Please personalize this letter and send it on to
your friends and business contacts and let's see how many books, music
recordings and relevant documentaries we can get for their library
within the next week and a half. If someone wants to make a flyer about
this that folks could put up around their workplaces or wherever, that
would make a nice addition to my letter. Feel free to make something and
send it to everyone!
Before you send my letter on, please note that I DO NOT HAVE THE CORRECT
INFORMATION IN THE NEXT TO LAST PARAGRAPH. A decision about the
location(s) of the book drive and the logistics of how the books will
then get delivered to O. Perry Walker needs to be made. Once that is
made, this paragraph should be fixed:
"We will be gathering books on Saturday, November 14 from 9:00AM to
3:00PM at [???location???] or you can drop books off in advance at the
house of project member Professor Amy George-Hirons at 1726 Broadway and
she will see to it that the books get delivered to the school. The books
will be delivered to the school on Monday, November 16."
Also, note that you should put your name and such at the close of the
letter, so that it's personal.
Note that the second page of this letter has a list of materials that O.
Perry Walker's librarian forwarded to me. She emphasized their need for
"current non-fiction books that deal with all high school academic
subjects: math, science, physics, politics, geography, American history,
world history" but also provided a solid list of English and American
literature, including a number of African-American authors. She also
mentions the need for MUSIC recordings.
I am going out of town and won't be able to work more on this until
Monday, but I know that my contacts need a heads up on this sort of
thing so I plan to send this out before I leave. I am just going to tell
my friends to give ME the books and I'll see to it that they get to the
appropriate place once that is decided.
Again, feel free to personalize the letter. I just wanted to give
everyone something to get the ball rolling.
George-Hirons, Amy
I just got off the phone with O. Perry Walker's librarian, Lauren
Goldman, and we determined that Monday morning, November 16 would be a
very convenient time for her to receive the books.
Would any of you be able to go to O. Perry Walker on Monday, November
16, 2009 at 10AM to drop off the books? I'm not sure how many books will
be received, so I'm not sure how many people would be needed to help
unload them, but surely at least 3-4 people?
Lauren suggested that she could have members of O. Perry Walker's
student government and other student organizations there to receive the
books. I think some of you were thinking about trying to get the press
to cover the event. It seems to me that THAT would be the event for that
sort of coverage--books being carried in to their library and received
by their students.
Sounds nice, no?
I'd go myself except that I'm going to be out of town that week.
Please let me know if Lauren should get her students to be there at
10:00 (or earlier or a bit later--Lauren is available until 11:45, at
which point it's the lunch hour, which she says gets quite chaotic).
I also got the word that McGraw Hill will donate a box of first year
college textbooks (history, social sciences). I will be picking those up
tomorrow.
The campus bookstore is also considering the request.
Happy book gathering!
pamelea chappelle
I would like to be one of your volunteers to bring some of the books to O. Perry Walker since my job is next door.
Sincerely,
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