This Post is a Quintuple Threat

Posted by David T. Cole on Feb 29, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | Comments Off This post has got it all so pay attention! Last day for Dewey Donation System shirts! Feb 29 is the last day you can grab a Dewey shirt on Glarkware. They are turning over the $20 you spend on the shirt to Dewey (but the post office keeps the shipping cost because they enjoy spreading misery). Donor Who? Oh hello there Samantha Who? showrunner Mr. Don Todd. You added 18 books and $1000 to the...
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Everyone is Pitching in at Children’s Institute

Posted by David T. Cole on Feb 28, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | 1 comment An email from Alicia at Children’s Institute just arrived in our inbox: Just wanted to let everyone know that the boxes are pouring in and it’s been a delight to unpack everything and see all of the great books everyone has donated! I’m attaching a photo of some of our “library assistants” who enjoy helping me on Library Day by scanning their own books.  A major...
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Winner! And Today’s Contest

Posted by Pamela Ribon on Feb 28, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | Comments Off Yay, Kathy Wilcox! You won a signed galley of Jeff Alexander’s A TV Guide to Life: How I Learned Everything I Needed to Know From Watching Television! Jeff will be contacting you soon to find out where you live. …That came out much creepier than I intended. Today’s contest: A signed copy of Warren Ellis’ Crooked Little Vein, courtesy of The Savvy Reader. This is a one...
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Address for Non-Amazon CI Donations

Posted by Pamela Ribon on Feb 26, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | Comments Off Want to send a pile of books but would rather use an Independent bookseller? Have a pile of age-appropriate book donations that you’d like to send directly through media mail? Librarian Alicia Fox would appreciate your donation. Send it over to: Alicia Fox c/o Children’s Institute, Inc. 711 S. New Hampshire Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90005 But don’t forget to tell us what you sent...
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Winner! New Contest! Whee!

Posted by Pamela Ribon on Feb 25, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | 1 comment Congrats to Kari Race, who just won a signed copy of Robert Rummel-Hudson’s Schuyler’s Monster. Kari, we’re going to forward your info to Rob so he can get that out to you when he’s done being a fancy-pants, book-touring author. Thanks for donating, and yay for winning books! From today until Feb. 27, donors will be automatically entered to win a signed galley of Jeff...
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We Have Contact!

Posted by David T. Cole on Feb 22, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | Comments Off Alicia Fox from Children’s Institute has made contact! Here’s the post: Yes, we are on to you! :-) THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR ALL THAT YOU ARE DOING! You definitely freaked me out with the sudden pile of amazon boxes showing up at my cubicle! For nearly 2 days we’ve been like little detectives trying to figure out how these books were coming to us and how a group of people from...
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Can We Do It? (Yes, We Can Totally Do It.)

Posted by Pamela Ribon on Feb 22, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | Comments Off Do you think we can hit $3000 donations for Rockhouse by the end of the day? That would be awesome. It seems the librarian over at the Children’s Institute knows something’s going on with her Amazon wishlists. She has been adding items and information, and at one point last night had a Motherhood wish list up but I don’t see that anymore. (But now there’s a place to buy...
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Donate to win: Signed copies of John Scalzi’s upcoming novella!

Posted by David T. Cole on Feb 21, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | Comments Off This is pretty cool! John Scalzi has launched a Dewey prize challenge on his Whatever blog. First, here’s what John says about his upcoming novella: … I am currently writing a short science fiction novella (about 17,000 – 20,000 words) which is going into an anthology called Godlike Machines, which will be published by the Science Fiction Book Club at some point later this year....
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Update From Our Last Drive!

Posted by Pamela Ribon on Feb 21, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | Comments Off Wondering how Sharon Davis and the rest of the Harrison County Library System is doing these days? We were, too. So we sent her a letter, and she wrote back. (That’s always a good sign.) Hi! Good to hear from you! I just can’t tell you how much of a difference Dewey Donations made in our libraries. Your help came at a time when both the books and the emotional support were...
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They must know something’s going on…

Posted by Pamela Ribon on Feb 21, 2008 in 2008 Book Drive | 8 comments Looks like the Children’s Institute just created a brand new wishlist filled with YA books for their Grade School Readers and second list for Educational DVDs for Kids.
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