This year, give with a conscience!
The fact that selections from Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas are now on rotation at the local coffee shop has alerted me to the fact that the holiday season has crept up on us yet again! As you frantically rush to check items off of your list, consider the following library and literacy related gift items. Happy Holidays!
- Contributions to your local Friends of the Library organization or Friends memberships:
- Contributions to libraries in need (including libraries and friends’ groups in the Gulf Region)
- Contributions to local or national non-profits supporting literacy and libraries:
- Gifts from ALA’s online shop
- Gifts from your local Friends gift shop, e.g:
- Seattle Public Library’s online Friends shop
- Wyoming Libraries‘ wonderful new campaign products
- New York Public Library’s online shop
- Books, magazines and talking books!
- Independent book store consortium, Booksense
- Magazines, list courtesy of LII.org
- National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped (NLS)
Library of Congress also has an online store. I bought my Christmas cards there. They also have prints, posters, jewelry and lots of other gifts. URL is
http://www.loc.gov/shop/
Glad to see you mentioned Talking Books from the NLS! It is indeed a great resource for those with visual or physical impairments, or those with reading disabilities. Please feel free to check out my blog at http://talkingbookslibrarian.blogspot.com/ for other great library related resources for those with disabilities!