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11Jul
2011

A Perfect Monday

Black Fridays are commonplace in this era of financial stress; perfect Mondays come much less frequently. Today achieved that stature because of five contributors: Professors Frank Ching and Barry Onouye, just retired after a career of teaching in the University of Washington’s Department of Architecture and donated a gaylord box filled with texts & references in their field; then Marc Piano located a potential donor with 300,000 books in England; and Carolyn Aamot, University of Washington’s Gifts Librarian, steered Ching [...]

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28Mar
2009

Gaylords of Books

  Photo of gaylord box with texts in our next container shipment for this May. Most of us know nothing about ‘gaylord boxes’ so this offers a view of how 1000 books [plus or minus] fit in one gaylord. Forty-four gaylords constitute a full 40 foot container. We expect to continue emphasizing children’s books until Thant and our librarians change priorities. Our second largest category is trade books, both hard and soft cover NYT best sellers. Specialty categories make up [...]

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