The Dewey Tree

This time last year the book blogging community lost one of its most prolific and much-loved members when Dewey passed away. To commemorate her memory, and to encourage us all to ‘give something back’ Lisa Roe from the Online Publicist has created a donation project – and called it The Dewey Tree in her honour.

Here’s the scoop:

Here’s what you do:
*Gather up the books you can live without. It can be 4 books, 10 books, or 20 books!
*Find a worthy group you would like to donate your overflow books to. It can be your local library, a literacy campaign (mine will go to the literacy center I volunteer for), or overseas. There’s a great list of book donation sites here on the ALA. Find a charity that speaks to you!
*Then take a picture of your donation and email it to me (onlinepublicist [AT] gmail [DOT] com). It can be a pic of the mailing label on your package, one of your kids giving a box of books to a librarian, or you handing books over to your literacy center. Be creative and have fun!

I will accept pics (and will post favorites) until January 4, 2010. At that time, I will enter the names of all who sent donation pics into Random.org and choose three. ***AMENDED: PLEASE GO HERE TO ENTER FOR THE GIVEAWAY*** Those three winners will receive custom made totes from me! I will email you pics of my available fabric and have you build one you like.

I hope you will join me this year in honouring Dewey’s memory and giving something back to your local community – now go and find some books!