DALL Final Community Service Project

As our final community service project of the year, DALL is participating in the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club! See details below for more information on the online book drive we are hosting beginning tomorrow, April 1st.

 

Please join DALL as we support this year’s Mayor’s Summer Reading Club. Each summer thousands of students across Dallas participate in the free,eight-week summer program that encourages reading and community participation for all ages. Each week participating young club members will have a chance to win an incentive prize by reporting what they read to any Dallas Public Library location. This summer the Reading Club would like to have three of the weekly prizes be a new book for Reading Club reader’s ages 0-18 years.  In order to have the books for each library giveaway, we need your help!

 

DALL will be hosting an online book drive beginning, April 1 – May 1. Please click on the graphic below which will take you to the Mayor’s Summer Reading Club online donation site. Please select Dallas Association of Law Librarians from the drop down menu and make your donation. Let’s show the Dallas area children who participate in this summer reading club that DALL supports their educational accomplishments!

 

 

 

 

 

For additional information, please contact Jessica Borders at jborders@gardere.com

Community Service Project: Give Books!

For our community service project this term, DALL will hold a book drive to benefit the Promise House of Dallas, Texas. The Promise Houseembraces homeless, runaway, and at-risk teens and has been in operation since 1984 (for more information, please see their website at: http://www.promisehouse.org).

According to the director of Promise House, Dr. Harriet Boorhem,the teens especially like the Twilight book series. Dr. Boorhem's assistant also supplied the following link for additional suggestions:

http://productsearch.barnesandnoble.com/search/results.aspx?CAT=914099&FMT=PHYSICAL&SRT=SA&STORE=book&SZE=100&REFGRP=2&DREF=4271

You may bring your donation to the DALL Holiday Party on Dec.13th if you are planning to attend. You may also ask those in your organization to donate and I will arrange for pick up and delivery (estimated delivery date will be on Friday, December 21).

Thank you in advance for your participation!

Donna M. Bostic

President

How to Reuse, Recycle, and otherwise Dispose of Unwanted Law Books

The Washington County Law Library in Oregon provided a helpful list for library managers who are either moving, downsizing the collection or clearing out outdated materials in their library.

AALL: Book Drive

The Social Responsibilities SIS has chosen the Recovery District Schools in New Orleans as the recipient of this years book drive proceeds.

Since there is such a dire need at so many New Orleans public schools, whose libraries were badly damaged, we thought that we would have the most impact by donating to the Recovery School District ("RSD"). The RSD has 21 needy schools under its umbrella including elementary, middle and high schools. Because of the shortage of both staff and resources, the RSD can not provide us with a list of titles but instead would like to encourage us to use our own judgment when purchasing books for the District.

While the donation of books will be gladly accepted and we do not want to discourage anyone from donating books, the RSD let us know that cash and gift cards, particularly from Barnes & Noble, would be welcome as well. We mention Barnes & Noble specifically because the RSD is receiving a very heavy discount from them so that the gift cards and cash can be stretched much further.

Books, checks (payable to AALL) and gift cards can be sent directly to Carol Billings, SR Book Drive, Law Library of Louisiana, 400 Royal Street, New Orleans, LA 70130-2104. This is the first of a number of e-mail's regarding the book drive and the New Orleans Recovery School District Libraries that you will see in the months to come. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact Carol Billings (cbillings@lasc.org) or Alison Alifano (alifanoa@sullcrom.com).