Please join the OWLS Community Service Committee in gathering up your like-new/new books for Coffee Creek, Oregon’s only women’s correctional institution. The book drive enriches the collection of books available to the women incarcerated at Coffee Creek, as well as the libraries in Oregon’s other correctional facilities. Volunteers are needed for collection sites and our book sorting party, scheduled for the afternoon of Sunday, May 18, at SBH Legal, 1200 SW Main St., Portland.
If you’re interested in volunteering as a donation drop site or for the sorting party, please complete the Volunteer Survey form.
The schedule for the book drive is as follows:
May 1, Special Event: Lane County Women Lawyers Spring Social & Book Drive
May 2 – May 14, Book collection sites open
Donate your books at the collection sites
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Donation Sites |
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May 1, 4:30-6:30 pm ONLY: Ambrosia Restaurant, 174 E Broadway, Eugene |
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Additional collection sites forthcoming. Please fill out the volunteer interest form if you would like to host a collection site |
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May 16 ONLY: OWLS Roberts & Deiz Award Celebration (Register here to attend this event, or contact Erika for details on book drop for non-attendees) |
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May 15 – 16
Collection site volunteers will transport books to the sorting location in downtown Portland during business hours
Sunday, May 18
Book Sorting Party at SBH Legal, 1200 SW Main St., Portland, beginning at noon.
Here are Coffee Creek’s donation guidelines:
- Book condition requirements:
- Be in like-new or new condition
- No personal information written in them
- Free of water damage
- Books cannot include pop-ups, maps or disks.
- Must be in original binding or professionally rebound.
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No spiral binding (metal or plastic)
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No binders
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No loose-leaf materials
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- Restricted content – Please do not donate materials containing the following:
- Technical information – including computer program, systems programming, instruction on computer usage
- Survivalist guides
- Fighting or self-defense tactics guides
- Law Enforcement guides
- Sexually explicit materials
- Weapons information – including guides, instructions on building or smithing
- Specific requests
- Newer materials (published within the last two years)
- Complete series of popular fiction
- Any prisoner/incarcerated-specific legal books
- A list of requested books can be found here: 2025 Coffee Creek Book Donation Request List
