The Peninsula Beijing just completed a book collection to support The Library Project.  They collected 150 hi-quality Chinese language children’s books through a “Children’s Party” for their employee’s children. They collected a wide range of children’s books that included: history, science, short stories, fairy tales, books for very young readers, children’s reference books, and an assortment of comic books.

These books will go into a school located in the Shaanxi Province in the coming months.  We will be complimenting their donation of used books with new books.  Book collections like these really help us keep our costs down, but also get more books into the hands of eager young readers.  We’ll keep you posted as to the progress of their books finding a new home.

The Peninsula Beijing learned about The Library Project through a book collection conducted by ClarkMorgan at one of their recent free “demo” courses.

Time Out Shanghai just wrote a great article on The Library Project.  It is in their February 2010 edition.  Thank youRebecca Kanthor for reaching out to our organization.  Take a look at it by clicking on the link below:

Time Out Shanghai February 2010 Article

有故事陪伴的童年是幸福的，一个个精彩童话把我们带进了七个小矮人的小木屋，和孙悟空一起三打白骨精，与皮皮鲁，鲁西西一快儿冒险。。。

把你的美好记忆当作一份小小的礼物与乡村小学的孩子们，孤儿院的孩子们一起来分享吧！

打开你的书柜，看看你的书架上是否有你愿意与他们分享的图书吧！因为对于这些孩子来说，你的一份馈赠帮助他们了解一个世界！

由图书馆计划发起的全国图书募集活动正在如火如荼的进行着，要是您正发愁怎么处理家里的儿童图书，或者您对于中国的农村小学教育十分关注并愿意奉献您的力量，请点击图书馆计划的中文博客链接，来了解我们吧！

图书馆计划为落后地区的乡村小学和孤儿院捐赠儿童图书和图书馆。我们相信，知识是消除贫困的关键，知识就是改变。

在图书馆计划的中文博客里，我们的成员会为您带来捐赠活动背后的故事，和您分享我们一路走来的心路历程，也欢迎您通过我们的博客和中文网站以最适合您的方式加入到我们这个大家庭中来。

让我们为了让世界变得更美好来一起努力吧！

It looks like it took 225 rural elementary school and orphanage library donations for The Library Project to hit an (online) encyclopedia.  We now have a digital space on the pages of Wikipedia.  :-)

We’re going to be adding a lot of our library statics, locations and goals to this page over the next couple of months.  Take a gander at the link below:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Library_Project

A huge thank you goes out to Alice Stader (my little sister) for all her help making this happen.

As of January 2010, The Library Project has established 225 elementary school libraries.  We’ve put more than 150,000 Chinese language children’s books into the hands of eager young readers.  Over 50,000 children now have access to improved educational infrastructure.  Together we are changing the world, one book at a time.