[Sci-tech-public] message from Peter Perdue

[Debbie Meinbresse]

>From: Peter C Perdue <pcperdue at MIT.EDU>
>
>Dear Colleagues:
>
>         As you can imagine, the tsunami disaster of last December had a 
> devastating impact on schools and Universities in South Asia, and 
> especially in Sri Lanka. A colleague of mine at Duke, Sucheta Mazumdar, 
> has organized a book drive to help college and school libraries in Sri 
> Lanka rebuild their collections. She was there when the tsunami hit, 
> though fortunately out of danger. The schools have received funds to 
> reconstruct their buildings, but they are not getting aid to buy 
> books.  They will be very grateful for any donations you can provide of 
> scholarly books or journals. Back issues of journals are quite expensive 
> to buy for them, so here is your chance to unload your shelves and help 
> out students and faculty there.
>
>         You can send boxes through the end of this month to :
>
>Ann Elsner
>>>Director of Administrative Services
>>>Perkins Library System
>>>Duke University
>>>Box 90193
>>>Durham, NC 27708-0193
>>>Ph:  919-660-5947
>>>Fax: 919-660-5923
>>>ann.elsner at duke.edu
>
>Duke is aiming to ship a container of over 10,000 books in July.
>
>It doesn't cost much to send boxes [up to 70 lbs] at book rate from the 
>Kendall square Post office, and you can take a tax deduction too. I have 
>shipping labels, but you'll have to provide your own boxes.
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Peter
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/sci-tech-public/attachments/20050627/fc0d1e74/attachment.htm