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Recycle unwanted books today in Princeton

This comes to us courtesy of Susan Conlon at the Princecton Public Library:

The Princeton Public Library is teaming up with Better World Books and the Princeton University chapter of the organization Engineers Without Borders for “The Great American Book Drive,” today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Library staff and volunteers from Engineers Without Borders, the library’s Teen Advisory Board, Go Between Club and other youth volunteers will be collecting new and gently used books in good condition outside on the plaza and inside in the library’s first floor Community Room.

Books collected at the drive will go to Better World Books and the Ghana Project, to be part of a collection in the new library being built in Ghana by Engineers Without Borders. They are building an environmentally sustainable library there to promote English language skills and education. (For more information, go to ghanainitiative.wordpress.com.)

Better World Books has partnered on community book drives in the past with the Brooklyn and Chicago public libraries. In keeping with the Better World book drive recycling theme to support “literacy, not landfill,” student environmental clubs from area high schools have been invited to host education tables at the event, and Cintas Document Management will be on-site with a truck to accept and shred used documents, from noon to 2 p.m.; people may bring up to three office-sized boxes of personal documents to be shredded.

There will be live music and dance throughout the morning and afternoon featuring the Princeton University breakdance group Sympoh; the Tune Bugs, featuring Kristin Friberg, who combine elements of swing, bluegrass, jazz and rock to make music for the littlest of fans; Cosmic Pelican, a Princeton High School jazz trio; and a chamber group from Princeton University.

Any updates will be posted at princetonlibrary.org/teens/BookDrive.html.