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Dear Friend of Reader To Reader, I hope you enjoy this newsletter about the Reader To Reader Book Project. Our success is very much due to your donations of books, postage money, and most of all your generous spirit. Please forward this newsletter and help us spread the word. Among the hallmarks of Reader To Reader is our ability to respond to urgent need in a rapid-fire manner. A request comes in and we are able to ship books out that same week. As an organization without a lot of paperwork and bureaucracy, we can assess resource needs and respond faster than just about any organization I can think of. Here is one recent example. On November 2, 2006, fire engulfed Eastern Guilford High School in Gibsonville, North Carolina. The fire began in an empty chemistry lab and completely destroyed a school which served more than 1,000 students. Built in 1974, the school had no sprinkler system and everything from personal belongings to textbooks and library resources were completely destroyed. Students were relocated temporarily to a local community college and Reader To Reader immediately responded to Eastern Guilford High’s request for books to rebuild their library. We immediately shipped hundred of books; everything from gorgeous art books on Matisse and Picasso to teen novels, Shakespeare, poetry and history. We are now packing additional boxes filled with chemistry, physics, world history and a range of other subjects for shipment this week. What is the effect of all this? “It has made a huge impact on our students reading and research,” says Eastern Guilford High’s librarian Mary Jane Crum. “We now have classes that are using our temporary library because it has the tools to do research. We are so grateful to Reader To Reader for all you have done for us.” In the fall, Eastern Guilford High will move back onto the grounds of their former school and be housed for the next three to four years in temporary classrooms while a new school is built. We look forward to continuing to work with them to rebuild their library resources. Closer to home, I received a call last Tuesday from Sandra MacDonald, librarian at Hiram Dorman Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts. “I have absolutely nothing to work with she cried. Our students are desperate for books.” Well, that is all we need to hear! Hundreds of books were quickly packed and delivered to her this past Friday. What a great Monday she had unpacking the boxes! Many more will be coming. And from nearby Holyoke, Massachusetts:
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David Mazor
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