Friday, January 08, 2010

GELA Women's Prison Library Looking for Donations


Happy New Year future librarians!

The GELA women's prison library and reintegration committee has put out a request on behalf of the library users looking for specific book donations. They are going to be making these requests monthly and it looks like a great way to support this important project and clear some space on your bookshelves (for new books, of course!)at the same time.

This month they are looking for:

Specific Titles:
The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
Bright Shiny Morning -James Frey
Children of the Lamp(series) - P.B. Kerr.
Cloud of Bone - Bernice Morgan
The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
Mummy – Anne Rice
Push – Sapphire
Pyrates (series) - Chris Archer
Shattered Silence - Melissa G. Moore
Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer
Where the Red Fern Grows- Wilson Rawls

Anything by: (authors)
Tess Gerritsen

Anything about: (topic)
Nutrition
Learning Braille
Traditional Aboriginal Medicine
Hobby/ Craft Magazines
Science Magazines

Other:
National Geographic, June 1985 and April 2002 (Sharbat Gula editions)
Current High School- Chemistry, Physics, Biology text books


If you have anything from this list to donate, please email kwurmann@ualberta.ca or tanyadriechel@legalresourcecentre.ca to coordinate a drop off. For more information about the committee, visit their blog at http://gelaprison.wordpress.com/

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