By Margo Lambert, MLIS
If you regularly listen to recorded books and are wondering what to do with that rapidly growing collection of tapes and CDs to which you’ll never listen again, please consider donating them to the Affinity Libraries and help to enhance our patients’ experiences.
The Affinity Libraries wish to develop a collection of general interest recorded books to be made available to patients. Since the purchase of non-medical materials falls outside the scope of acceptable uses for library funds, we are inviting AHS staff members to donate gently used books on cassette or CD. We would welcome fiction, history, humor, biography, or any other titles that might entertain and help pass the time for those facing longer periods of hospitalization or for those who must undergo lengthy treatments. It is our hope that, by providing this type of material to our patients, we will be able to increase patient satisfaction with our facilities.
Of course, staff members would also be welcome to check out these materials.
We will be accepting donated audio books at the following locations:
Mercy Medical Center, Oshkosh
The Clark Family Library
920-223-0342
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Health Science Library (near the ER)
920-738-2324
Thank you very much for your participation in this project.
