[Bookstoprisoners] chinese dictionary

[Holley K]

I did send one directly to an inmate in CA,  but let Jay know.  I think there were actually two requests for a chinese dictionary. I sent a book called "the curse of the kennedys"  with the two boxes,  that was largely a biography of Joseph Kennedy, for that special request. 
  Holley

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1. Guidelines for special requests-please read (Susan Porter Bruce)
2. IDF drop box (Meg)
3. volunteerism fair at Parkland College (Niloofar Shambayati)


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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 17:53:55 -0500
From: Susan Porter Bruce 
Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] Guidelines for special requests-please
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BtP volunteers,

Apologies for yet another email about procedures, but I spent the 
afternoon trying to clean up the Requests list and had some problems.

1. Does anyone remember posting Biographies of Kissinger and Joe 
Kennedy, Corvette, Chinese Dictionary, Sharks? They were all listed 
as n/a, no inmate number, so I removed them. If you can remember a 
name, we'll put them up again.

2. Does anyone remember sending out Mutts, Please Understand Me, 
Canada Crosswords, Zorba the Greek, or posting them on the special 
requests list? When I looked at the letter, I thought these must have 
been an order sent, not a special request. I fear sometimes people 
think they're supposed to list the books they sent on the Requests tab.

3. We had a bunch of books on cars, movies and photography that we 
thought would meet special requests, but when I checked the history I 
saw that the inmate had already received books on these topics. It 
may not have been the exact title, but it was very close. So please, 
if you've sent something good and close enough, don't list on the 
Requests.

4. Did anyone list Abnormal Psychology a few days ago? I couldn't 
open up the order or find a folder. We have two textbooks, different 
authors. It's hard to meet inmates' needs for textbooks, but we could 
sometimes get lucky.

How do we fill special requests?

You keep an eye out, and if you remember somebody once asked for a 
book on drawing and you see we now have one, go to our online list, 
find the inmate's number and send it or put it in the Requests box to 
the left of the computers.

All of us try to look periodically at the list and scan the shelves.

Sometimes we post titles on the Freecycle website. Sometimes we look 
for these at garage sales, and some of us have even been known to buy 
them from used book stores.

What will we never/rarely find?

-Freemasonry, etc, the books listed on our letter.

-Very specific titles unless they're commonly known, law books.

-There's a genre of Urban Lit that we might buy sometime, but we 
rarely get: Goines (not Gaines, we have Gaines), Iceberg Slim, etc. 
We need to come up with a good list of read-alikes. Elmore Leonard, etc.

If you're uncertain whether we will ever come across a book, take a 
quick look at Amazon. If it's ranked in the really high numbers, we 
probably won't find it.

Finally, we really can't keep requests more than about 6 months. 
Things change, people get paroled, we should tell them to write back 
to us.

Here are "good" requests: Puerto Rican History, Philosophies and 
Opinions of Marcus Garvey, "Title/author/paperback only," Spanish 
dictionary, ancient temples.

Here are impossible requests; Thiner, Scachen, Tablets of Ishtar and 
Tammuz. This last leads on Amazon to a book on Mythology, which we 
might get.

Understand that inmates sometimes must have access to Books in Print, 
but we don't. How do they get these titles?

Susan
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 05:25:08 -0500
From: "Meg" 
Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] IDF drop box
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Dear BTPers,
I'm having a hard time getting in to C-U during the hours IDF is 
open on the weekends. Is anyone willing to be the IDF pick up 
person?
Thanks,
Meg




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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 10:09:37 -0500
From: "Niloofar Shambayati" 
Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] volunteerism fair at Parkland College 
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Hi Everyone,

Parkland will have a "volunteerism fair" on September 27, from 10:30 to 1:30 
& I've signed up to set up a table for BTP project. The problem is that I'm 
in class from 10:00 to 3: 00, with a break between 11:00 & 11:45. I can 
make flyers to place on the table & set up the table & spend 45 minutes at 
the table. Is there anyone who could pitch in & represent us at the table? 
It might be worth it if we could get even a couple of volunteers out of this 
event. Please let me know.

Peace,
Niloofar
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jamie storm" 
To: ; 
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2006 6:15 PM
Subject: RE: [Bookstoprisoners] volunteer announcment and flier and updates


> I'm willing to be the volunteer point-person.
>
> I understand that to mean that flier-takers will email me with whatever 
> route(s) she/he is willing to take and by when and that I'll keep a 
> master list of who's volunteered to do what and when.
>
> Thanks for the structure, Sandra.
>
> Jamie
>
>
>>From: "Sandra Ahten" 
>>To: bookstoprisoners at ucimc.org
>>Subject: [Bookstoprisoners] volunteer announcment and flier and updates
>>Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 16:44:21 -0500
>>
>>Attached is
>>1) an announcment for you to forward to email groups that you belong to
>>2) a flier to print out (pdf) and hang in various locations.
>>3) a fliering list -- for you to get ideas about where to hang them.
>>
>>If anyone wants to volunteer to be the point-person to coordinate getting
>>fliers out... please email the group and tell us that you will do that. 
>>Then
>>people can email the point-person directly about which routes they are
>>taking. If we do not get a volunteer for this.. PLEASE don't email the 
>>list
>>with the details of which routes you are taking..it will be too much 
>>email.
>>
>>
>>Thanks to our newest volunteers: Gary Storm -- who is picking up the books
>>from Strawberry Fields for us now! Ann Sibley who is coming in weekly to 
>>do
>>some packaging.
>>
>>We have a new work time -- Tuesday 7-9pm. This is being covered by Jane 
>>and
>>Niloofar.
>>
>>Jamie and Jane are getting and processing mail while I'm gone.
>>
>>If the copier breaks down: 1. reboot 2. shut off various electrical 
>>things
>>in the room and try again. 3. call bundy business systems (but someone 
>>will
>>have to meet them there (chris) to let them in to work on it.)
>>
>>We should have several new internet access computers in the ante room in 
>>the
>>next week or so.
>>
>>All boxes are now stored above the book shelves in our workroom.
>>
>>Until Chris gets the men's bathroom anteroom (woodshop) cleared up...
>>incoming books are coming straight into the BtP workroom.
>>
>>Someone needs to bring books down from the Post Office lobby occasionally.
>>
>>I'm off to Austin in the morning. I expect I'll be on email for a short 
>>time
>>daily, until Thursday. Then I'll be at the Ausin City Limits Music 
>>Fesitval
>>for 3 days. Returning on Sept 21st,ish.
>>
>>Jay and Suzanne are now happy married couple. Big congrats!
>>
>>Peace to everyone.
>>
>>Sandra
>
>
>><< 0609volunteerPSA.doc >>
>
>
>><< 0609volunteerflier.pdf >>
>
>
>><< flierlistwithgreatcampuslisting.doc >>
>
>
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