WHCB Project to Promote Literacy
Donate your books!

As you have read or heard on the news, many school districts are having to cut their budgets for the 2024-2025 school year.   This is the result of the legislature not passing sufficient school funding during the last legislative session.  To cut costs, Spring Branch ISD is eliminating librarian positions at all schools.  Other school districts may take similar steps.

To advance literacy in one low economic neighborhood, our branch is supporting a free library that has been started at Spring Branch Family Development Center (SBFDC).  What’s needed are books. Gently used (or new) books in either English or Spanish are requested. The SBFDC Free Library can share everything from toddler board books to beginning readers, chapter books, graphic novels, illustrated nonfiction texts, mysteries, and young adult fiction, etc.

Many of you are grandmothers or maybe you are a retired teacher.  You may have gently used children’s books in your home for entertaining grandchildren who have outgrown them and are no longer used.  Perhaps your treasured book collection can be put to good use.  Members can donate books at our next branch meetings in April and May.

When: April and May
Where: Branch meetings
Who: All WHCB members
What: Donate gently used or new children’s books
For: Spring Branch Family Development Center
Questions: Contact by email Georgia Kimmel, Cathy Urquhart, or Diana Guarniere.