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, which is scheduled for Sunday June 2, at Gevurtz Menashe in downtown Portland.
If you’re interested in volunteering, please fill out the following form: Volunteer Survey.
The schedule for the book drive is as follows:
May 13 – 29
Donate your books at the collection sites
May 30 – 31
Collection site volunteers will transport books to the sorting location in downtown Portland during business hours
Sunday June 2, 1:00 pm
Book Sorting Party, Gevurtz Menashe, 115 NW 1st Ave., Ste. 400, Portland, OR 97209
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: 2024 Coffee Creek Book Donation Request List
