Better World Books Book Drive

This news comes from a recent e-mail from UM Habitat for Humanity coordinator Kathy King:

The UM chapter of Habitat for Humanity is sponsoring a Better World Books book drive during finals and book buy-back week. We are asking students and teachers to donate used and sample textbooks and old editions by dropping them in collection boxes around campus. Boxes are located in Morgan computer lab, Harmon lobby, Carmichael Library, and the Student Union Building.

Better World Books collects millions of books and dollars for literacy programs around the world. You can read the whole story at www.betterworldbooks.com. Some facts:

• Books collected are either sold online to fund operations (including shipping and printing local language books), donated directly to literacy partners, or recycled.
• 100% of profits go to literacy partners. Room to Read is our chosen literacy partner. Room to Read was founded by John Wood, a former Microsoft executive, after he hiked through Nepal and saw the schools there. The school he visited had 30 books, and they were kept locked in a cabinet because they were too valuable. Since then, Room to Read has built libraries, computer labs, schools, as well as printing local language books.
• No book ever goes in a landfill.
  

If you need help hauling books, contact Kathy King at 6431 or via email.

Please help us support this worthy cause by dropping your new or used books by the library lobby!

Kathy King Gets Caught Reading

Kathy King, UM Professor of English, was kind enough to visit Carmichael Library Staff at the Ask Here desk in the Library. We asked her the following:

Carmichael Library: What are you reading?

Kathy King: Atonement, by Ian McEwan.

Carmichael Library: Why?

Kathy King: This is the book, in the last year, that I’ve found most compelling. It shows the power of the imagination, its needs as well as its capacity to destroy.

Carmichael Library: How do you use your campus library?

Kathy King: I like to hang out with the fun-loving, sexy librarians of Carmichael Library.

And we like hanging out with Kathy. Stay tuned for the next episode of get caught reading. Btw, we're still taking nominations for faculty you'd like to see Get Caught Reading.