Hi Beth. I faced precisely the same problem in my office. I subscribe to lots of journals and every few years need to create new space. A decade or so back, I sent back issues of journals to Colorado State to replace periodicals lost in the Fort Collins flash flood.
This time I wrote to Walter Lonner, the founding editor of the Journal of Cross Cultural Psychology, to see if he might know of a university in the developing world that is wanting to establish or enhance a psychology library. He did . . . a state university in Nigeria that has a young faculty member whom Walt knows from cross-cultural psychology meetings . . . who is eagerly developing the psychology program at his university. Walt, too, had resources to contribute from Western Washington State University (44 boxes in all, joined by contributions from David Matsumoto at San Francisco State, Al Pepitone at Princeton, etc.). The problem is: how does one affordably transport these materials to Africa, now that sea-based M-bags no longer exist for shipping educational materials and the post office only offers expensive air mail? Our answer came from an organization near where I teach whose mission is to collect and distribute books via freight container to developing countries. Although their main focus is religious books, they also will do other educational materials to state universities, such as this university in Nigeria and through it to sister institutions in the area. Their motto: "“Converting EXCESS in our world to ACCESS in the rest of the world.” The bottom line: a freight container of psychology books and journals will be heading out to Nigeria in June, supplemented by other materials wanted by their university library (I saw boxes of the Journal of Mechanical Engineering on the pallets when visiting there recently). The overseas freight expense is being donated for this project . . . so, for you and anyone else who might like to do some Spring cleaning, the only expense would be boxing and mailing (likely by media mail) your materials to the Grand Rapids warehouse within the next week. Anyone who is interested can write me at [email protected] and I will send you more information about "The Nigerian Book Project" as Walt has named and defined it, and where to send the materials. Just one concrete idea for you . . . . with kudos for wanting to serve others. Dave www.davidmyers.org On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 9:41 AM, Beth Benoit <[email protected]> wrote: > Once again, my bookshelves are overflowing with older textbooks, > teachers' manuals, etc. I think the Florida school system is probably > overwhelmed with all of the books I sent there a couple of years ago. > Does anyone have any use for them, or know somewhere that would be grateful > for them? They're developmental, intro., abnormal, lots of child psych., > and manuals and test banks for all. Also a lot of transparencies. (Does > anyone use transparencies anymore?) > > Beth Benoit > Granite State College > Plymouth State University > New Hampshire > > --- > To make changes to your subscription contact: > > Bill Southerly ([email protected]) > > --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
