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[Apologies for cross-posting] Do you have any books you just don't want or use anymore? Reading copies in triplicate? Textbooks under your bed or old novels you don't want? Why not consider donating them for charity? The School of Information Management Student Association (SIMSA) is sponsoring a book drive to collect books for Books beyond Bars and other local charities. What: Donate any used or unwanted books Where: Collection boxes are at each Dalhousie libraries: the Killam Library, W.K. Kellogg Health Science Library, Sir James Dunn Law Library and the Sexton Design & Technology Library; the Dalhousie Student Union Building; and the King's Library When: Boxes will be there from March 26 through April 25 Books beyond Bars is a local initiative that goes into the women's section of the Central Nova Scotia Correctional Facility in Burnside twice monthly to improve access to books, writing, and literature for incarcerated women. For the last four years the program has and continues to: * Distribute books and writing journals to incarcerated women, * Collect writing, artwork, and poetry from women in prison to create a publication called "Words Without Walls," and * Offer the "Read Aloud" program. We tape record incarcerated mothers reading children's books aloud and then send the book and tape to her children outside. Books Beyond Bars is particularly in need of the following types of books: * Self-help, self-affirmation type books, especially about abuse or addictions or relationships, but really anything * True crime (Anne Rule, John Saul, others) * Biography * Newer mysteries by popular authors (Mary Higgins Clark, Nora Roberts, James Patterson... etc) * Literacy/numeracy workbooks * Blank journals (no spiral bound) * Large print books * Kids books Every bit helps! -- Katie A. Puxley, BAH (Vind) SIMSA Book Drive Chairperson MLIS Candidate 2008 School of Information Management Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS **No trees were killed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.**