[Bookstoprisoners] Books for Prisoners - needs response today

[Susan Porter Bruce]

Carol,

I'd be happy to help with this. I suspect we would get books that  
people would deem relevant to prisoners. They're not going to show up  
with boxes of miscellany. But it would be good if we can say  
something like:

paperback dictionaries
poetry
literature with African American themes (or however you think  
appropriate to say that)
GED study guides
career development guides

Do others have suggestions? Their web announcement mentions Pages for  
Prisoners in Bloomington,IN not us.

http://www.admin.uiuc.edu/mlk/calendar/calendar.html

It would be nice if we could be prepared with flyers to get  
volunteers. We could perhaps pass them out as people leave?

Susan Bruce
On Dec 7, 2006, at 8:09 AM, carol inskeep wrote:

> I received this in my email this morning, and as you can see they  
> need a reply by noon!  The MLK organizing committee is offerering  
> Books2Prisoners a chance to place donation bins at one of their  
> film showings - they would publicize this as a book drive on their  
> promotional materials.  It looks like a great opportunity to  
> promote Books 2 Prisoners - possibly a good way to get more  
> volunteers, as well as a chance to get some donations.
>
> Though I'm not a regular volunteer, I'm willing to help coordinate  
> this if at least one other person steps forward to partner with me  
> on it (collecting the books, staffing the table, etc.).  The main  
> question for now is :  Do folks want to do this - Is there one  
> other person willing to help?  And if so, do want to specify  
> anything particular on the publicity (ie, particular kinds of  
> books, etc.)?
>
> Alicia P Rodriguez <aprodrig at ad.uiuc.edu> wrote:
> Subject: Books for Prisoners
> Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2006 00:07:18 -0600
> From: "Alicia P Rodriguez" <aprodrig at ad.uiuc.edu>
> To: <carolinskeep at yahoo.com>
>
> Hello Carol,
>
> I don't know if you know me but we've met many times through Zsuzsa  
> and Rick and you saw my family, Don and Jordi, at the Prince  
> Myshkins concert last weekend. I am a member of the Uof I MLK  
> commemoration committee and this coming January 18 we will be  
> showing "After Innocence" (a new film about exonerated prisoners)  
> during the MLK week events (you can get more info at http:// 
> www.admin.uiuc.edu/mlk/calendar/calendar.html). Although it has not  
> been confirmed, we are trying to get the film director and one of  
> the men featured in the film to present the film and participate in  
> q&a. Laura Haber mentioned you at a meeting as an organizer of the  
> Books for Prisoner program and we were wondering if the group would  
> want to collect books during the showing. I'm sure that folks from  
> the committee would help out. We'd advertise the book drive on  
> publicity for the film and the entire week of events. We were  
> thinking that big boxes could be placed on sides of the stage at  
> the Virginia Theatre, along the side, where they may more easily be  
> taken out through the side doors after the event.
>
> If you and the group are interested in this, I would appreciate if  
> you could let me know before 12 noon tomorrow, Thursday  
> (12/7/06)....that is the deadline for the graphic artist who is  
> finalizing all of the publicity. If you'd like to talk about this  
> over the phone, I should be in my office by 8:45am tomorrow, or  
> tell me where I can reach you by phone.
>
> Sorry for the short notice, but all of us on the committee are  
> working on many aspects of the MLK week (plus our jobs) and if an  
> idea is made and not carried through, it just doesn't happen! I  
> hope you understand.
>
> peace, Alicia
>
>
> Alicia P. Rodriguez
> Associate Director
> Latina/Latino Studies Program, MC 495
> University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 510 E. Chalmers  
> Champaign, IL
> 61820
> tel: (217)244-9732
> fax: (217)244-4526
> aprodrig at uiuc.edu
> http://www.lls.uiuc.edu >
>
>
>
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