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13 people are interested
Install a Little Free Library book lending box at a school in need
ORGANIZATION: Access Books Bay Area
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- A group opportunity. Invite your friends.
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13 people are interested
Install a lending library book box at a school site: We are looking for one small group of individuals on April 17, 2021 at a school in Daly City. Installation begins at 11:30am and the installation will take about 2 hours. This is appropriate for a group of 2-4 people, one of which must be an adult. Your will dig a narrow 18-24 inch hole, insert the 4x6" post into the hole, fill it with quickcrete that you purchase for about $6, fill it with water that you bring from home, and with a level securely install the post. After letting the quickcrete solidfy for 20-30 minutes, you can attach the little library lending box to the post (all pre-drilled). Once the lending library is attached and the quickcrete is set you will fill the library with the books from Access Books Bay Area. A representative of Access Books Bay Area and a representative from the school will meet you at the site.
Interested volunteers will need to pick up the Lending Library in Palo Alto a few days before the installation. You will be provided with installation instructions and materials lists when you reply to this opportunity. Note that you will need to have basic construction tools and expertise, and purchasing the materials will cost you about $6. It is best if you have a narrow spade (sharp narrow shovel) This is a good project for a family or a small group of volunteers to do together. All volunteers must wear a mask and follow COVID-19 safety protocols.
In today’s era of distance learning, many schools and districts have been unable to provide access to pleasure reading books to their students, as school and classroom libraries have been temporarily closed for the 2020-2021 school year.
To support these unique challenges during these unprecedented times, the team at Access Books Bay Area is offering public schools in need a Little Free Library filled with books from Access Books Bay Area’s stock of new and gently used books for children to borrow and return on the honor system.
The library book box program provides students access to books that they can take and exchange during distance learning, ensuring that they continue to read for pleasure. Once a public school agrees to participate in the project, the following steps are taken:
- Volunteers construct, paint, and install the library book boxes in an accessible location on the school’s campus.
- Access Books Bay Area fills them with inviting, exciting books and provides stock to the school for refilling the library book boxes when they become depleted.
- The school’s personnel monitors and maintains the library book boxes on an ongoing basis.
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About Access Books Bay Area
Location:
80 Harriet Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read. We believe that books change lives, and that for children living in poverty, the school library is the best way to connect children with pleasure reading books. Studies have shown that reading for pleasure is one of the single greatest indicators of future academic success, yet the state of California provides no dedicated funding for school libraries, and many of the schools in the Bay Area have not funded their school libraries for decades, leading to out-dated collections and unattractive facilities. Our organization changes lives by making sure that the school library is an attractive place full of wonderful, interesting, recent, and culturally relevant books that will help them become lifelong readers.
Description
We provide books to low-income schools where approximately 90 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. Most students at the schools we serve are children of color and children of immigrants. Our organization provides brand new, hardcover, high quality books to school libraries and gently used books to teachers for classroom libraries, as well as improving the library space by painting colorful, reading-based murals and providing new comfortable reading furniture.
We complete 2-3 library renovation projects each academic year, each taking place on a Saturday from 9am - 2pm. Volunteers from partner community service organizations collect the gently used books to be donated and provide volunteers for the project day.
We serve school around the bay area, although most of our work to date has been concentrated in the south bay and peninsula areas. We have renovated nine elementary and middle school libraries in high poverty areas to date, and have applications pending for four more, one of which will be renovated this spring.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
contact us for exact locationDaly City, CA 94014
DATE POSTED
April 8, 2021
SKILLS
- Carpentry
GOOD FOR
- Teens
- People 55+
- Group
REQUIREMENTS
- We estimate this project will take about 2 hours.
- One member of the group needs to be able to lift a 50 lb bag of quickcrete & have the strength to dig; one member needs to be an adult; great for families, scout troops (one or two members and a parent), high school groups, service organizations.