Book Donations

• The Prisoners' Reading Encouragement Project (PREP)
  info@prisonreader.org
  Builds up prison libraries. The non-profit organization happily accepts popular books in good condition, as well as reference and text books published in the last five or six years. Books in Spanish and by African-Americans, Caribbean and Latin American authors are especially welcome, as are Korean and Russian-language books. And though half the men in prison read below an eighth-grade level, half read above it. The organization is staffed by volunteers, only one of whom has a car: Pick-up can be arranged, though donors with wheels who can drop the books themselves to a storage space in lower Manhattan make the workers' lives easier: To make arrangements, leave a message at (212) 349-6741) or e-mail at the above address.

• Prisons in need of Books
  jryan@sjcny.edu>
  The jails in Suffolk County need more books. Will you encourage patrons to give gently-used paperbacks of a non-violent nature to this cause. Here's what is needed. 1. a person to receive them at your library and pack them in cartons; 2. someone to send the cartons through SCLS labeled: SCLS for Riverhead Jail and SCLS for Yaphank Jail, ATTN: Law Librarian. Both Riverhead and yaphank will also be happy to receive magazines of a non-violent nature. If you are not sure if the material is non-violent, send it anyway. Jail personnel will weed out whatever is not allowed. Thank you for any assistance you can give in this important matter. If you have questions, please email me at the above address.