GIVE A MAN A FISH...THE UPSIDES AND DOWNSIDES OF BOOK DONATION ORGANIZATIONS

WHAT’S THE APPEAL?

tangible feasible immediate

http://www.twu.ca/sites/magazine/no-16/campus-chronicle/; http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/librarian-hopes-to-open-hobbema-s-1st-public-library-1.1320919

WHERE I BEGAN

the questions: who decides what’s needed

how are the connections madelogistics

WHERE I BEGAN

WHERE I BEGAN

WHERE I WENT

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profit

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WHERE I WENT

$ in, books outbooks in, books out

READING: THE THINGS YOU LEARN

Miller (2011); Nassimbeni & Desmond (2011)

include training with the books

books have to be suited to needs

have to encourage pleasure reading

Nassimbeni & Desmond (2011); Hart (2011)

provide books using local publishers or booksellers

follow-up is essential

“recipient agency” vs. “outsider aid”

Hart, G. (2012). Teacher-librarians leading change: Some stories from the margins. School Libraries Worldwide 18(2), 51-60.Miller, G. (2011). Lessons learned for effective overseas donations. Incite 32(1/2), 10.Nassimbeni, M. & Desmond, S. (2011). Availability of books as a factor in reading, teaching and learning behaviour in twenty disadvantaged primary schools in South Africa.

South African Journal of Library and Information Science 77(2), 95-103.

READING: THE THINGS YOU LEARN

“Books are works of the mind, which through the variety of their contents and different forms of human expression, feed our shared intellectual heritage in all its diversity” (Rosi, 2005, p. 3)

“The donation of books is all too often no more than a grand gesture without any real impact, because it fails to contribute to the lasting promotion of books and reading in the target countries” (Rosi, 2005, p. 5)

“We are used to thinking of a book as a precious object in itself, a valuable resource which will be appreciated at all times and in all contexts. In reality, a book can be unimportant and even a quite unusable object in some situations and for some readers” (Rosi, 2005, p. 22)

Rosi, M. (2005). Book donations for development. Canada: UNESCO.

BOOK CHAIN DONATIONS: MODES AND IMPLICATIONS

Rosi, M. (2005). Book donations for development. Canada: UNESCO.

WHERE I AM NOW

question: who am I serving?