Pack Your Winter Institute Suitcase With Donations for the Maryland Book Bank

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At Winter Institute 2020 in Baltimore, the American Booksellers Association will be collecting books from attendees to donate to the Maryland Book Bank, a local nonprofit organization committed to putting free books into the hands of young people and cultivating literacy in children from under-resourced neighborhoods.

Maryland Book Bank Program Manager Kim Crout said the books the nonprofit distributes are primarily children’s titles and will go to kids and teachers. For the Winter Institute Book Drive, the nonprofit is seeking books featuring minority characters, popular elementary picture books and graphic novels, elementary and easy reading chapter books, and titles in Spanish, but would prefer not to receive encyclopedia sets or textbooks older than 10 years.

In general, the Maryland Book Bank accepts books of all reading levels and genres in good condition, so all donated books will find a good home. Children’s books through YA are distributed to young readers through the organization’s book bank and bookmobile programs, and adult books are sold through a social enterprise bookselling operation with proceeds benefitting those donation programs. 

The 15th annual Winter Institute will be held January 21–24, 2020, at the Hilton Baltimore Inner Harbor, located at 401 West Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland. ABA will set up a box to collect books for the Maryland Book Bank at the ABA Welcome Desk on Tuesday, January 21, and at the Ask ABA desk on Wednesday, January 22, and Thursday, January 23. The organization will pick up the books and bring them to their headquarters on Friday, January 24.
 
Winter Institute is sponsored by Ingram Content Group and publishers large and small. Questions about Wi15 can be sent to [email protected].
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