Velocity of Books is collecting 10,000 books for Maryland elementary schools identified as schools with as few as thirty books in their school libraries.  Together, we can make a difference.

Study shows that reducing TV time has a greater impact on increasing test scores, than increasing study time.

Help students by getting them involved in activities other than TV.

These boys read, bike, boat and skate. 

Their mother worked hard to get them involved in activities before considering turning on the TV.  As a result of their mother reading with them and working hard to provide books of interest, they don't have to watch TV to be entertained.  They also don't have to study as hard as many other kids who watch a lot of TV.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/sarah-knapton/11842173/Watching-TV-seriously-harms-GCSE-results-says-Cambridge-University.html

Velocity of Books depends on residents to distribute books to the community.

Washington Literacy Council celebrated the success of their students, teachers and community on Thursday evening.

There were wonderful stories of homeless people who found Washington Literacy Center and were encouraged by their volunteer teachers to persevere.

Andrea Roane was a fabulous emcee, who exuded professionalism and charm.

Community business leaders were recognized for their initiative and tremendous examples of promoting a more literate community.

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Patrick Rothfuss  is donating his books to the prisoners.  There is quite a buzz amount prison librarians, who are excited to have popular books to provide to their communities. 

We applaud Mr. Rothfuss and encourage everyone to keep donating books to the community.

Your can find his blog on this link: http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/

Mr. Rothfuss's books are available on Amazon

This week, we were able to donate another five cases of books to Mary's Center on Flower Avenue in Silver Spring, Maryland.  We are excited that we can continue to support their efforts to provide more than medical services to pregnant women.

They strive to help address the needs of the entire family.

Does your organization need support?

Let us know and we'll see what we can do to help.

Contact with us via Facebook.  Velocity of Books Facebook Page.

You'll get a good idea of the impact your donations and our volunteers are making on the community, when you go to our Facebook page.

3/29/2015 , 7:30pm We arrived at MD Fairgrounds and assessed the situation.7:31 We are greeting by friends who showed up in advance. https://www.facebook.com/hschwartzbeck gives everyone direction. We went from a state of shock ( Carolyn Thompson), to a state of calm, as Heather shows us how we can get started before 8:00pm, on the daunting task which stands before us.

After a short time we are rolling through the boxing process,  sorting the books between hard cover for the prison system (which we find out later is an unnecessary task, as they will take both soft and hard cover, unlike many prison systems). We are running out of boxes.

We brought over 100 empty boxes, but it wasn't enough. The volunteers from Smith College, go to their warehouse and get boxes. They bring them back and start taping them up. The boxes are bigger than the liquor boxes and get heavy. We are thankful. We continue to box and load the truck. One person is focusing on stacking the boxes inside the truck, while others are using the many dollies (we purchased earlier in the week), to move the material as swiftly as possible.