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Logan Moore has deep, tangled and inextricable roots in the Champaign-Urbana community. This music writing gig provides him an opportunity to procrastinate on his master’s degree in library and information science at the University of Illinois.
For literature lovers on a budget, used book sales can become something of an obsession. The slippery slope begins somewhere around early registration, moves through waiting outside libraries and churches at eight in the morning on a Saturday, and ends at elbowing grandmothers and Ebay booksellers out of the fiction section.
The upshot to all this frantic materialism is the good causes that these events often support. The Central Illinois Books to Prisoners program holds their used book sale this weekend June 6-8. All sales go toward supporting costs of the all-volunteer program, such as the massive amounts of shipping costs incurred by mailing books to incarcerated patrons all over the state.
Pennies for Prisoners Spring Book Sale is located at the Independent Media Center building at 202 S. Broadway Ave. in Urbana. Hours for the sale are Fri. 3 p.m.-9 p.m., Sat. 8 a.m.-4 p.m., and Sun. 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Friday's sale is a special preview so the admission charge is $2.
Comments (1)
Friday, June 6, 2008 10:29 AM
Several years ago I interviewed Foty and subsequently wrote a cover story for the News-Gazette's E3 section complete with an impressive photo spread.
The night after the piece came out the bar was packed and he was all smiles.
"Thanks for the article. You really did a nice job," Foty said.
It was my pleasure.
"You wanna beer?"
That'd be great.
(draws small draught of PBR) "There you go."
Thanks, Foty.
"...that'll be a dollar twenny-five."