[Publib] Holiday giving tree

[Joanne Lamothe]

Hi Julie,
For Weymouth Community Christmas, our teen group builds a tree out of books and puts tags on it with children's and teen book titles on it. Our patrons take the tag, purchase the book and it is placed into the library's toy drop off for the Community Christmas program. Here is a photo of the tree from our Flickr page. The tree base is round with a hole in it for a dowel, we use discarded books to create the tree, put lights and the tags on it. The only issue we've had is patrons trying to check out the books that make up the tree!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/wpl/2120566524/


Joanne L. Lamothe
Director of Library Services
Weymouth Public Libraries
46 Broad St.
Weymouth, MA 02188

--- On Mon, 10/6/08, Dale McNeill <dale.mcneill at gmail.com> wrote:

From: Dale McNeill <dale.mcneill at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Publib] Holiday giving tree
To: "Julie Rinaldi" <jrinaldi at folsom.ca.us>
Cc: "Katy Curl" <kcurl at folsom.ca.us>, "Nellie Loo" <foflibrary at gmail.com>, "<publib at webjunction.org>" <publib at webjunction.org>
Date: Monday, October 6, 2008, 9:08 PM

I've worked in a library that did this with great success.  The only  
thing I would say is to include items of prices from the most  
expensive local history item to a paperback children's book.  And then  
get the books *very* quickly.

Dale

Dale McNeill


On Oct 6, 2008, at 5:39 PM, "Julie Rinaldi"
<jrinaldi at folsom.ca.us>  
wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> Our Friends of the Library group wants to do a holiday giving tree,
> starting right after Thanksgiving.  The idea is to put up a big tree  
> in
> the main lobby and cover it with tags for specific titles, as well as
> for various subject areas, age-level materials, formats, and genres.
> Patrons would take a tag and donate the stated dollar amount to  
> purchase
> what's on the card.  If the tag is for a specific title, the patron  
> will
> have the option of requesting a donation plate in someone's name and  
> can
> also obtain a card listing the item to give to the person in whose  
> name
> the gift was made.
>
> I'm wondering if other libraries have done a similar program, and what
> your ideas are - what worked, what didn't, etc.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Julie Rinaldi     (916) 985-8193
>
> Folsom Public Library
>
> 411 Stafford Street
>
> Folsom, California         95630
>
>
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