When giving out your books tonight, ask people if you can take their picture and I will put them up here on the WBN blog.
Send all your photos to Nanci.Rosenberg-Nugent@libraryweb.org
Thanks!
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Rochester Makes the The top 10 WBN Giver Regions per Capita
World Book Night Top Giver Cities and Regions
World Book Night US: Washington, Michigan, and New York attract the most volunteers Read more here and here.
World Book Night U.S. has delineated the top giver towns, cities and regions per capita. “Doing it just by pure number and by individual towns and cities didn’t capture the full picture of where the most givers are,” executive director Carl Lennertz commented. “Yes, the five big cities top the list in order of population, but then it begins to follow along the lines of both very involved bookstores and libraries, as well as places with community-minded citizens and/or a population in need.”
The top 10 WBN giver regions per capita: 1. West Seattle Sound (Bainbridge Island/Kitsap/Olympic Peninsula), Wash. 2. Lansing/Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, Mich. 3. Buffalo/Rochester/Oswego/Brockport, N.Y. 4. Los Angeles beach towns 5. San Joaquin Valley, especially Fresno and Bakersfield, Calif. 6. East Bay: Oakland, Berkeley and all of East Bay, Calif. 7. Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill Triangle, N.C. 8. Eugene/Salem/Corvallis, Ore. 9. Palm Beach County, Fla. 10. Hudson Valley, N.Y.
WBN Rochester Events Starting to Shape Up!
WBN started emailing givers today, so there’s lots of excitement about WBN Rochester today. We are starting to hear about local events being planned for April 23. One we heard about tonight will take place in the Northeast part of the City of Rochester. This is what we’ve heard from Joan Lee, Manager of the libraries in the NE Quadrant:
ABC: Community Building in Action Neighborhood Center has asked the Lincoln Branch Library to partner with them if they are selected for the World Book Night event. If selected, ABC and members of the Joseph Avenue Business association would like to give these books away at Lincoln. Twelve participating business members will hand out flyers to their customers, inviting them to visit the Lincoln library to receive a free book. If selected to participate, the JABA members will host a catered book discussion after World Book Night at the library.
More to follow as details become available!
World Book Night is April 23, 2013. Apply to be a Book Giver
Get involved with World Book Night and become a Giver of books.
What we do
World Book Night U.S. is a celebration of books and reading held on April 23, when 25,000 passionate volunteers across America give a total of half a million books within their communities to those who don’t regularly read. In 2012, World Book Night was celebrated in the U.S., the UK, Ireland, and Germany and saw over 80,000 people gift more than 2.5 million books.
There is still time to apply to be a Giver this year. Apply before January 23, 2013 to be a World Book Night U.S. Giver. Go to http://www.us.worldbooknight.org/how-do-i-get-involved/apply-giver-us to find out how you can give away books and share your love of reading. See guidelines and application here.
Where Will The Givers Be April 23?
That’s the question we’re all being asked. Where will you find a giver giving away a WBN book? Well, we’re all being a little coy about where we’ll be since we only have 20 books each to give away and we don’t want you to be disappointed. But here are a few places where you might find a giver…
- Bars and restaurants in the East End
- Humboldt Street Recreation Center
- The corner of Main & Exchange
- The Liberty Pole
- RIT campus
- Arnett Blvd
- Lyell Avenue
- On the Wease show
- Greece, north of Latta Road
- Total Sports Experience
- Westside YMCA
- Brockport
and a few other places. If you do not find a giver on April 23, you can still join the fun! Stop in your local library and look for the WBN books.
WBN @ Wheatley Branch Library
The World will be watching on April 23rd as the Phillis Wheatley Community Library celebrates World Book Night!
We will give away 20 copies of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins as well as movie posters, lanyards and bookmarks. Giveaways start at 4pm. Light refreshment will be served.
Happy World Book Night! May the odds be ever in your favor!
About the Book: In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capital surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capital is harsh and cruel and keeps the other districts in line by forcing them to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight-to-the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister’s place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to death before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love. Award-winning writer Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this stunning novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.
Lori Frankunas, Site Supervisor – Phillis Wheatley Community Library
WBN Pick Up Party at Writers & Books
World Book Night Pick Up “Party”
Monday, April 16th from 6:30 to 8:30
Wine & snacks, as well as bookmarks, buttons, and materials for you each giver who picks their books up at the W&B offices.
Sidewalk Reading @ Arnett Library
On World Book Night, the Arnett Branch of the Rochester Public Library will host a Sidewalk Reading Rally!
Bring whatever you are currently reading and join your neighbors on the sidewalk outside the library. World Book Night selections are on display at the library if you want to pick one up. There will be free t-shirts for the first 20 people, and light refreshments will be served.
Monday, April 23, 2012 from 6 – 7 pm
Arnett Branch Library
310 Arnett Blvd.
Rochester, NY 14619
For more information contact Jennifer at 428-8214.
Patti Smith & WBER Spotlight Review
Bob Scheffel will host a special edition of the Spotlight Review on WBER 90.5 FM, Rochester’s longest running alternative music show, on April 23 at 9:00 pm, World Book Night, highlighting two of the books that will be given away that day. Featured will be music from the Hunger Games soundtrack, from the movie based on Suzanne Collins’ book, and the music of Patti Smith, in honor of the National Book Award winning Just Kids. Audio excerpts from Smith’s book will also be highlighted.
Bob has this to say about the latter: “Having long admired both Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe, a first-person memoir from Patti was tantalizing enough. But her rich prose and detail highlighting a particularly fruitful artistic period of New York City before punk exploded is truly a treasure. The highest recommendations!”
For more information about the Spotlight Review, go to http://wber.org or http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Spotlight-Review/64968872248
World Book Night in Brockport
Lift Bridge Books in Brockport is a proud and enthusiastic participant in World Book Night 2012! On April 20 from 5-7 pm, Archie & Pat Kutz will host a wine & cheese reception for “givers” who are picking up their books at the store. Givers will pick up their books and discuss their ideas for distribution and the 30 WBN titles themselves.
Lift Bridge is also inviting unofficial “givers” who missed the deadlines or some how dropped off the WBN lists to attend the event on April 20 since they will have extra books for distribution.
Lift bridge is also promoting WBN to the general public with a books for sale display in the front of the store starting right after Easter.
Lift Bridge Book Shop is located at 45 Main Street in Brockport and can be reached by phone at 637-2260.
