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Updated Donations Wishlist

I updated the donations wishlist today. Please take a look at it if you’re collecting.

The updated list contains titles that are presently circulating at EIFW through the EPL borrowing project; however, Cathee flagged these items as high demand and added them to the donations list. A number of title requests from the previous wishlist were filled through the EPL borrowing project and are no longer in demand (and therefore no longer on the list).

The list also contains Books on CD, which up until recently, were not accepted in EIFW donations. Apparently, the EIFW administration have decided to allow this material to circulate. The rules of relaxed now that Cathee has been given permission to start a CD borrowing project using reclaimed inmate CDs.

Please let me know if you have any questions about the latest list.

Thanks!
Masha

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Wishlist now posted

The permanent wishlist page has been created. It is accessible from the menu on the right. We will try to keep it updated with the most recent requests from the EIFW library. If you know of something that there has been a request for, please add it, and if you know a request has been filled, please delete it. (If you have editing access to the blog, go to your wordpress dashboard, then find “wishlist” under “Pages.” Let me know if you need help.)

4 new Stephenie Meyer books are making their way to the library tomorrow! And I bought two of them so… that goes on my permanent record :)

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APIRG funding to support the library

Sara and I have successfully applied to APIRG on behalf of ABC Edmonton for a Books Behind Bars project in support of the library. We have received a grant of $670 to be used to buy books for the library and promote the project.

Now to buy some books! We will, of course, be looking to the wishlist, as well as a lists of recommendations from ABC contacts. Kirsten and I have discussed the possibility of buying some reference books.  There’s a bookclub meeting this weekend, so I’ll be able to talk to Cathee about what she thinks would be most useful.

APIRG is also interested in setting up a ‘satellite’ library at the prison. The idea is that they would lend books from their collection to the prison library for an extended period of time and those books would circulate in the prison. This is in discussion stages right now, but I will keep you updated!

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GELA Women’s Prison Library and Reintegration Committee: Inmate’s February Wish List

This is the February request list from inmates for book donations for the EIFW library. If you have any of the books on the list (or any questions or comments)  email  kwurmann@ualberta.ca or tanyadriechel@legalresourcecentre.ca to coordinate a drop off.

WISH LIST
Anne of Green Gables (series)– Lucy Maud Montgomery
Children of the Lamp(series) – P.B. Kerr.
Just Another Indian – Warren Goulding
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
A Painted House – John Grisham
Pyrates (series) – Chris Archer
Shattered Silence – Melissa G. Moore
Twilight Series (especially Breaking Dawn)  – Stephanie Meyer
Type Talk – Janet M. Thuesen and Otto Kroeger
Under the Dome – Stephen King

Anything about (topic)
Aboriginal poetry
Atlas (large world atlas)
Book of quotations
Books on CD (fiction/nonfiction)
Braille
Calming/Inspirational books (with serene pictures
Craft Books – Knitting, quilting, crochet
Crossword puzzle books
Dictionaries
Hobby/ Craft Magazines
Language Instruction (Any languages, esp. Italian and Arabic)
Nutrition
Poetry anthologies
Traditional Aboriginal Medicine
Vietnamese fiction and nonfiction
Wikka/Witchcraft

BOOKS BY:
Ellen Hawkin
S.E Hinton
Alexander Pushkin

OTHER
Current High School- Chemistry, Physics, Biology text books

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Cathee’s Wish List

The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath

Bright Shiny Morning -James Frey

Children of the Lamp(series) – P.B. Kerr.

Cloud of Bone by Bernice Morgan

The Count of Monte Cristo= Alexandre Dumas

Man’s Search for Meaning- Viktor Frankl

Mummy – Anne Rice

Push – Sapphire

Pyrates (series) – Chris Archer

Shattered Silence – Melissa G. Moore

Under the Banner of Heaven, Jon Krakauer

Where the Red Fern Grows- Wilson Rawls

Anything by (authors)

Tess Gerritsen (The Mephisto Club has been donated)

Stephanie Meyer (Twilight Series)

Anything about (topic)

Nutrition

Learning Braille

Traditional Aboriginal Medicine

Hobby/ Craft Magazines
Science Magazines

Astrology

Vampires

Cookbooks (cooking on a budget, using simple ingredients, cooking in prison)

Other
National Geographic, June 1985 (Tara found one!) and April 2002 (Sharbat Gula editions)

Current High School Chemistry , Physics, Biology Textbooks

Dan Brown’s latest book

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Recently requested at the EIFW library

Inmate Librarian Cathy passed on the following requests:

  • books on public speaking
  • craft books, especially focusing on crochet
  • ‘Push’ by Sapphire (or any books related to the recently released movie ‘Precious’ – there is a movie tie-in edition)
  • ‘Valkyrie’ – this request was unclear, but may be in relation to books about the Valkyrie plot to kill Hitler
  • anything by the author Rupert Ross
  • Italian language learning materials
  • additional copies of Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight books, especially book 3: Eclipse

Thanks!

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Cathy’s Wish List

Book Requests

Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor Frankl
One Child – Torey Hayden
Tiger’s Child- Torey Hayden
A Child Called “It” – Dave Pelzer
Nineteen Minutes – Jodi Picoult

Anything by:
Edgar Allan Poe
Khalil Gibran
Alex Haley
S.E Hinton
Keats
Ann Rice

Books About:
Co-Dependency
The zodiac
Biographies (more recent bands, actors)
Novels in Vietnamese
Current High school textbooks – Chemistry, Biology, Physics

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Bookdrive for Pe Sakastew

The men’s healing centre in Wetaskiwin (Pe Sakastew) needs the following types of books:

A current set of encyclopedias, and dictionaries.
The complete “Left Behind” series by Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins.   
The complete series by James Herriot.
How to books on Leatherwork; leather carving; wood work; making of native crafts; learn to play the guitar, drums (the drum sets), etc.
Books on health, nutrition, how the body works, nutritious meal planning and recipes (using basic inexpensive food).
How to budget, handle money, handle stress, safe workouts (gym, etc.), be a good parent.
Autobiographies
Poetry books
Spy fiction
Mystery fiction
Books by Wilbur Smith, Zig Ziglar, Chuck Swindoll, Tom Clancy, John Grisham, Robert Ludlum.

If you have any of these books to donate – please let us know!
Kirsten

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A wish list from Cathy

Cathy gave me a wish list of books as requested by women at the prison – I thought I would pass it along to you and your networks/libraries etc before posting it to the GELA/Jerome listservs. Maybe we can collect some of these books at our next meeting?  The women would be thrilled.

Here’s the list:

Roots
Shogun
The Book of Negro
The Power of Now – Ekhart Tolle
Heavier to Heaven (Kurt Cobain’s biography)
Any V.C. Andrews books
Gregory Maguire series
The Other Boleyn Girl
Clive Barker books
Dr Phil – The Ultimate Weight Loss Challenge
Paranormal subject
More current “healing” non-fiction
S.E. Hinton books
My Sister’s keeper – Jodi Picoult
Dean Koontz books (From the Corner of his Eye)
Restoration by Rose Tremain
The Lords of Discipline – Pat Conroy
The Pilot’s Wile by Anita Shreve
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Gap Creek by Robert Morgan
Stolen Lives: twenty Years in a Desert Jail by Malika Oufkir
Fall on your knees and/or The way the Crow Flies by Ann-Marie MacDonald
Night by Elie Wiesel
Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Thanks everyone!
Kirsten

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Meeting Notes, April 14th, 2009

Notes—Meeting with Cathee, Tuesday, April 14, 2009.

Library needs:

  • Magazine covers—Liz FL will bring these (she discovered a stack of basic matte plastic covers recently)
  • Labels and label protectors
  • Dewey cataloguing key. Cathee needs assistance cataloguing the non-fiction. (Didn’t we have something like this?)

    • Specific collection requests:

  • The Kite Runner
  • Book of Negroes
  • Ken Follett, Pillars of the Earth and World Without End
  • Wicked, Twilight

    • As well as:

  • Graphic novels
  • First Nations material
  • “Cultural” books (books about other cultures)
  • Healing, addictions, psychology non-fiction
  • Knitting and crochet books (there is one crochet book that is missing and everyone’s been waiting for it to reappear)
  • Any book with the Oprah label (they are very popular)

    • Additional Notes:

  • Cathee would like to move all the law books from the non-fiction section to somewhere else so that all the other non-fiction is together. I know this is something we’re working on.
  • Cathee wants to register borrowers and search by borrower’s name. I’m not familiar with the system yet. Can this be done?
  • Cathee asked about weeding. I said if they are really damaged (i.e. pages torn, covers ruined), delete them. For all the others set aside for now and we can talk about this. I told her this would be covered in the policy that the committee is working on.
  • Cathee is very keen and very nice. I think she’ll be great to work with.

    • Next steps:

  • I’m going to get Cathee a list of Oprah books so she can check off what the library already has (and hopefully we can supply what is missing.
  • Reissue notices about Storybook program and Book Club because of the long gap between Megan leaving and Cathee coming on board. This was Cathee’s suggestion.
  • Written policy. Cathee was very glad to hear we’re working on this. Missing books are a problem, and she’d like circulation and collection guidelines to work with.