Is your club involved in a literacy program?

Why collect and send used books...International Book Bank has what you need!

The International Book Bank works with non-profit literacy programs in the developing world to supply them with tens of thousands of high-quality new books and educational materials each year. Their books go to children, the ill, and the indigent, in places where there is no access to books and often, no roads or school buildings. In this way, they redistribute their great book wealth to Africa, Asia, East Europe, the Caribbean, Central and Latin America - and keep those new books out of landfills.

Helping work toward the United Nations' goal of worldwide literacy, the International Book Bank supplies the books to children and teachers who otherwise would have none.  IBB Web Page  Whatever your books needs are for your particular project, the International Book Banks has the books to meet your needs, from pallet quantities to full container shipments, English, Spanish, French...technical, medical, general reading books, to text books. The International Book Bank can be the perfect partner for your literacy projects.

 Executive office: 410.685.BOOK (2665)  Warehouse office: 410.362.0334   info@internationalbookbank.or 

Valerie Staats, PhD, Executive Director 

Interested parties should contact the International Book Bank at www.internationalbookbank.org or 410.362.0334 to request an  information packet, with details about shipping and handling costs, and a list of available books. Book recipients, often with a third-party sponsor, underwrite the actual shipping and warehouse handling costs.

If your organization qualifies and is approved to receive donated books, the IBB will work closely with your organization. You will select the books for your program from our list of currently available titles. We will help you ensure that the materials to be sent are age/level, content, and culturally appropriate. The IBB then packs and ships by sea container directly from our warehouse and monitors the shipment to arrival at its destination. Please click here to obtain our current shipment rates.

From our place to yours: Depending on the destination, and whether it is near a port or overland transportation is required, the shipping time averages from 4-6 weeks once the container has left the Port of Baltimore. We do require that book recipients provide us with digital images and documentation of the distribution process and the books' end-users.