Colorado State And Barnes & Noble Team Up For Library Benefit Book Fair Sept. 25
Wednesday, September 17, 1997
FORT COLLINS--Colorado State University and Barnes & Noble
Booksellers will team up for a "novel" event all day Sept. 25 at
eleven locations. The CSU Library Benefit Book Fair is a
statewide flood relief effort to raise money for Colorado State's
Morgan Library, which suffered damage to an estimated 425,000
books and journals during the flood that hit campus July 28.
Eleven Barnes & Noble stores in Colorado will participate in
Denver, Boulder, Fort Collins, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Grand
Junction. During the day, all Colorado Barnes & Noble bookstores
will donate a percentage of their day's sales to the Colorado
State library. All stores will feature Colorado State banners and
other green and gold Ram spirit items. Select locations also will
feature an information video featuring footage from the recent
flood, special T-shirts, and Cooperative Extension and other
university representatives.
Book titles from many subject areas were lost during the
flood, including business, sociology, science, education,
engineering, agriculture and veterinary medicine. The library
also lost most of its bound journals dating through 1994,
including humanities, social sciences and science technology.
"Every book and journal damaged in the flood is undergoing
restoration, but it could take up to two years to get all those
materials back into the library's collection, and there is no
guarantee that all of them will be salvageable," said Joel
Rutstein, collection development coordinator at Morgan Library.
"Our main objective is to get materials back on the shelves as
quickly as possible so students and faculty have direct access to
these resources. The support from businesses like Barnes & Noble
gives the library a major push toward that effort."
Donations of books in subject areas lost in the flood and
collections of journals that span the past 20 years are the most
urgent needs, Rutstein said. People interested in donating
materials may search a comprehensive list of titles at
http://www.coalliance.org/csuflood, the home page for the
Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries.
Barnes & Noble store locations participating in the CSU
Library Benefit Book Fair include:
* Barnes & Noble, 1741 28th St., Boulder, (303) 444-2501;
* Barnes & Noble, 960 S. Colorado Blvd., Denver, (303) 691-2998;
* Barnes & Noble, 4045 S. College Ave., Fort Collins, (970)
225-3777;
* Barnes & Noble, 9370 Sheridan Blvd., Westminster, (303)
426-7733;
* Barnes & Noble, 8555 E. Arapahoe Rd., Greenwood Village, (303)
796-8851;
* Barnes & Noble, 14015 E. Exposition, Aurora, (303) 366-8928;
* Barnes & Noble, 795 Citadel Drive E., Colorado Springs, (719)
637-8282;
* Barnes & Noble, 8136 W. Bowles Ave., Littleton, (303) 948-9565;
* Barnes & Noble, 8374 S. Willow St., Littleton, (303) 706-9660;
* Barnes & Noble, 4300 N. Freeway, Pueblo, (719) 542-0698;
* Barnes & Noble, 2451 Patterson Rd., Grand Junction, (970)
243-5113.
Julie Karbula, director of development for the university
libraries, said more than $20,000 has been donated to the Morgan
Library Flood Relief Fund. For more information about the Barnes
& Noble Event, please call Michelle Rovang at (970) 491-6432. For
more information about Morgan Library flood relief efforts, call
(970) 491-7530. To make a donation, send your gift to Colorado
State University, P.O. Box 1870, Fort Collins, CO 80522-1870.
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