Thank you for considering a gift to Christ The King’s Library!
New Book Donations
If you are selecting something new to buy, let us help you make a choice designed to delight children, fill a known need or complement the classroom curriculum. We can have such fun, and make a selection to suit your taste and your pocketbook! A Donor Book Plate can be placed in the front of your book with your name or the name of the loved one you wish to honor. Our formal “Thank You” letter will include an acknowledgement of your gift for Income Tax purposes.
Money Donations for Library Books and Software
Similar to a well-tended garden, every year we “weed out” worn, outdated or unappealing books from the library’s collection. In addition, we identify replacement books and software that enhance the literature goals and information needs of our students and teachers. A cash donation is a wonderful way to customize your gift, so that it receives the best and most universal use. Again, your gift will be acknowledged on our letterhead stationery for your Income Tax files.
Used Book Donations
If you are considering a gift of books you already own and wonder if they are suitable, look at the Selection Criteria below. It is used for purchased and donated books alike.
Books and Software Selection/Inclusion Criteria
Materials for purchase, or accepted as a donation, are considered based on:
- Overall quality and content
- Quality of writing
- Timeliness and permanence
- Importance of the subject matter
- Readability and popular appeal
- Authority (reviews from professional journals, critiques from teachers or other professionally trained librarians)
- Reputation and significance of the author/artist/composer/producer, etc.
- Reputation of the publisher
- Cost
- Presentation and format (library binding, print size, book size, illustration quality)
A gift to the CTK library blesses many children, now and in the years to come. Thank you for thinking of them.