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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">This is so impressive! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">It shows how everyone can benefit when we work together.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Excellent solution, Leah, Thank you.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Judy<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Judy Anderson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee Co-Chair<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">juanderson@cu-portland.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">503 493 6453<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Leah Griffith<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 13, 2011 2:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Penny Hummel; libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us; 'Clackamas County Library Advisory Comm' (ldaccomm@lincc.org); foladmin@europa.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Libs-Or] Fake blue "books for charity" bins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">In Newberg our local literacy coalition had made connection with the Blue Bin people when the bins first arrived and had arranged to receive children’s books donations. When this came up on Sunday, she called
them again and talked with me and one of the results is that I have 20 boxes of books from them in my storage room waiting for my Friends to look through them to see if they are sellable. I opened two boxes and they were paperbacks, current and in good
condition. Who knows what the others will be, I’ll let you know. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">They stated they had gotten 2166 pounds of books from the Newberg area boxes and they would donate 25% (541 pounds or about 550 books) to the Friends and the Literacy coalition and that would be their ongoing
plan, if our Friends liked what they got. They will do that for any Friends group who asks.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We have 9 bins in the Newberg area so we were deeply affected by them. I’m
<i>trying</i> to look at this as an opportunity to make the community more aware of the need to donate directly to the library (we’ve never felt the need to do that before) and to also try to make it convenient for them to donate as well, since those bins are
very convenient. I think that is the lesson of the big blue bins and Penny’s article to her chamber is excellent in that way.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We’re also thinking that if we dump our unsellables in the bins that will serve to increase the total poundage and thus our 25% returned to the community will be higher. It has always been a challenge to find
a way to recycle library discards and the moldy junk we get, so it may provide us with that method as well ;-)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">We are also looking at talking to some of the businesses with bins and getting them to have them removed since we have so many. One in the community might be enough to allow some of the junk to be pulped and
still keep a good stream going to our Friends. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Anyway, that’s how we’re dealing with those big blue bins in Newberg.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Lucida Handwriting";color:#1F497D">Leah
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Leah M. Griffith <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Director, Newberg Public Library 503-537-1256<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:green">Think Green - Only print message if needed and then recycle!</span></b><span style="color:#1F497D"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us [mailto:libs-or-bounces@listsmart.osl.state.or.us]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Penny Hummel<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 13, 2011 2:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> libs-or@listsmart.osl.state.or.us; 'Clackamas County Library Advisory Comm' (ldaccomm@lincc.org); foladmin@europa.com<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Libs-Or] Fake blue "books for charity" bins<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you to everyone who has shared information about the impact of the fake blue donation boxes. At a discussion last night at Clackamas County’s library district advisory group, George Hoyt shared the excellent idea of approaching local
Chambers of Commerce on this issue. I took this ball and ran with it, and wrote the article below for their newsletter. I share it in case it is useful to anyone else—feel free to adapt!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Donating books? Forget about the blue boxes—give them to your library!
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Recent newspaper articles have highlighted something that is having a devastating effect on public libraries: a for-profit company that’s placing blue “Books for Charity” donation bins across the country.
Although the information on the boxes implies that the donated books go to help people, most are sold for profit or recycled. Most importantly, these donation bins are siphoning off book donations from public libraries and Friends of the Library groups.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">When you donate books to your Canby library, your gift goes to work right here in Canby. Some donations are added directly to the library’s collection, others are sold in the Friends’ Book Store to raise
money to buy new materials or to support library programs like Summer Reading and Music in the Stacks. Two of the “fake charity” blue boxes have been spotted already in Canby but we are hoping not to experience the stark drop in library donations that other
libraries have seen after their arrival, as this hurts both the library and our Friends.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">So, what can you do to help?<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
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</span><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If you have gently used books to donate, forget about the blue boxes—instead, bring them to your Canby Public Library! Smaller amounts can be put directly in our book drop in the alley beside the library
(292 N. Holly Street), or you can ring the bell by the book drop during the library’s open hours and we’ll help you unload them.
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</span><i><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">If you’re approached by the company that manages these blue boxes (Thrift Recycling Management) with a request to host one on your property and would like more information, contact library director
Penny Hummel (503.266.4021 or <a href="mailto:hummelp@ci.canby.or.us">hummelp@ci.canby.or.us</a>)
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">As fellow Chamber members, the Canby Public Library and the Friends of the Canby Public Library thank you for your support!
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<p class="MsoNormal">Director<o:p></o:p></p>
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