[Bookstoprisoners] Re: [Btp-jail-libraries] new books

[Jane Mohraz]

I agree with Barbara. We're so short of books for African American prisoners 
in the state prisions. We can keep a close eye on books in the country jail 
and acquire as needed with the money we get from the book store.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Kessel" <barkes at gmail.com>
To: "Suzanne Linder" <suzanne.linder at gmail.com>
Cc: <bookstoprisoners at lists.chambana.net>; 
<btp-jail-libraries at books2prisoners.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 9:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Btp-jail-libraries] new books


>I have had the same thought about prisoners at the jail - more people  get 
>to read them. On the other hand, prisoners locked away for years  have no 
>other way to get what they want, so I came out with the same  thought - 
>split them in half. Barbara
>
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 12:03 PM, Suzanne Linder wrote:
>
>> Hello all--
>>
>> Thank again to Anne Phillips, I just picked up a box of about 40  often 
>> requested titles by African American authors.  These books  were 
>> purchased with money raised from the alternative gift  program.  About 
>> half the money went to buy dictionaries that we are  sending to inmates 
>> in Illinois and the other half was used to buy  poetry, fiction (finally 
>> some Donald Goines books), and non-fiction  by A-A authors.
>>
>> I think that initially we were going to divide these titles between  the 
>> jail library and the stock of books that BTP sends to  prisoners.  Do we 
>> still want to do this?  We do not have multiple  copies of most of the 
>> books so it seems to me like they might be  read by more inmates if they 
>> all go to the jail?  But I could also  be convinced that half of them 
>> should be sent to specific inmates.
>>
>> What do others think?  It would be nice to make a decision by early 
>> Saturday afternoon so we can know what to do with them during our 
>> packathon.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Suzanne
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