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Duke will hold a book
drive from May 2-13 to collect faculty and student-donated books and journals
for Sri Lankan university libraries, research centers, and professors affected
by the devastating tsunami of December 26, 2004.
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Books written in English, which most Sri Lankan faculty and advanced
students read are preferred. Paper and hardback editions are equally welcome.
Less-than-current edition of textbooks, monographs of all types, and incomplete
runs of journals are welcome. The following list of disciplines is meant to be suggestive, not comprehensive:
textbooks or basic scholarly books in the broad areas of medicine; civil,
mechanical, electrical, and environmental engineering; all sciences; primary
texts in English and American literature, classic or modern; primary political
texts, biographies, and constitutional studies; social science texts and world,
European, and American history and Women's Studies. Not welcome are trade books,
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Duke Book Drive for Sri Lanka
Duke has announced an initiative to collect faculty and student-donated books and journals for Sri Lankan university libraries,
research centers, and professors affected by the devastating tsunami of December 26, 2004. Almost 150 schools, vocational colleges,
and universities have seen their libraries washed away, and hundreds of faculty members who have lost their possessions have also
lost their books.
Professor Sucheta Mazumdar of the Department of History is coordinating this effort at Duke with the assistance of Duke Libraries. She
will be collaborating with Dr. Kumari Jayawardena, a noted political scientist from Colombo University and Treasurer of the Social
Scientists Association of Sri Lanka, who will organize the distribution of the books there. The goal is to send 10,000 English-language
books to Sri Lanka. Just one book from everybody at Duke, or ten books from a thousand of us, would accomplish this goal.
The book drive will begin the week of May 2, 2005 and run through May 13.
Book Drive Information
The deans of the various schools will send a letter to their department chairs asking for their support and assistance with this book drive. Academic departments will be asked to do the following:
- Assign a staff person to organize boxes, writing the discipline on each box to simplify the task of later sorting. Collection boxes should be of a size convenient for handling, such as a copier paper box.
- Transfer the boxes of donated books to one of these locations, which will serve as intermediate collection points:
- Lilly Library
- Music Library (Biddle Building)
- Biological & Environmental Library (101 Bio Sci)
- Chemistry Library (102 Gross Chem)
- Vesic Library (Engineering, Math, Physics) in 210 Teer
- Ford Library at Fuqua
- Divinity Library in Gray
- Law Library
- Medical Center Library in Seeely Mudd
- Perkins Library (Circulation Desk)
Questions & Answers
Whom do I call with questions?
Please contact Ann Elsner, Business Manager at Perkins, at 660-5947 or
ann.elsner@duke.edu.
What if a faculty member wants their materials to be picked up from their office?
The Library's Shipping and Receiving Department will make every effort to
accommodate departmental requests to pick up materials that have already been
boxed for pick up; boxes should be of a size convenient for handling, such as a
copier paper box. Due to the limited size of the Library's Shipping and
Receiving Department and the overwhelming response we've had for donations, your
assistance to drop off materials at your nearest library or library branch is
appreciated.
For any questions about distribution or other local issues in Sri Lanka, feel
free to contact Professor Sucheta Mazumdar of the Department of History.
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