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Karin Cordiner, librarian at Prince of Wales secondary school, is the 2006 recipient of the Canadian Association for School Libraries/National Book Service's Teacher-Librarian of the year award. It will be presented in Ottawa on Tuesday.
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NEW YORK, April 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Schools, libraries and nonprofit organizations in New York are reaping the results of a month-long drive by Verizon employees who collected 11,368 new and gently used books. The harvest of books is the result of Season's Readings, Verizon's third annual national book drive and reading campaign conducted at company sites in December. Employees and their families in New York ... pledged 220,131 minutes (3,668 hours) to read to their children or others at local literacy centers, libraries, schools and other organizations throughout the coming year. Since the program began, the company's employees nationwide have collected and donated about 767,000 books and pledged more than 110,000 hours of reading time, including more than 578,000 books and about 43,000 hours during the recent campaign.
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The Lower Mainland’s library collections have dropped by half in the past decade, according to the B.C. Coalition for School Libraries. General Gordon elementary’s Locke said that 15 years ago, the school’s budget allowed for 1.5 books per student per year (adjusted for inflation). She said she is now able to purchase only one book a year for every three students.
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Today, Schooley's uncompromising volume can be found in university libraries across the United States including at Princeton, the University of Chicago, the University of California at Berkeley, and in law libraries nationwide. Additionally, Schooley has been profiled in Bimonthly Review of Law Books as well as in Ethikos and Corporate Conduct Quarterly and in numerous other publications.
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The contribution will be used to help rebuild the many community institutions such as schools, health services, and libraries etc. that were destroyed by the tornado after the clean up are completed.
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The total loss across the hundreds of school libraries in the Gulf Coast that were either damaged or destroyed is almost impossible to calculate. With millions of books, printed materials, technology resources and archival materials destroyed, rebuilding libraries and schools across the Gulf Coast is a daunting task -- one which will be impossible without the support of corporate, foundation, and private entities.
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