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Getting Started

         The first step in getting started with our program is to contact us. When you make your first contact try to have as much information about what your hoping to accomplish as possible. Be it a campus or community wide year round full recycling effort or perhaps a yearly collection for textbooks or other items around the area. How much funding do you hope to raise and what you think you can reasonably collect.

         After your first contact with Book Drives Inc you will be given a checklist to complete custom done based on your hopes and needs. Here is a sample checklist based on a campus book drive at semesters end designed specifically for collecting textbooks 2 times per year.

1. Establish who will be in charge of the drive. This information should be communicated to Book Drives Inc at its earliest convenience so they will know who to contact.

2. Obtain permission on campus to conduct the book drive. This can be done at the bookstore in some cases, at the student union in others or wherever your campus may direct you.

3. Find out the dates of the end of semester book buyback so that you can co-ordinate your book drive accordingly. these dates can be obtained from your campus bookstore or on your campus website.

4. Make sure you have taken care of any and all permission requests on campus to coincide with the buyback dates. This usually takes only an hours time or so. Book Drives Inc will issue a press release about your drive to the school paper at this time.

5. Secure a location for the shipping boxes to be stored until the end of your book drive. This can be done in some cases in co-operation with your campus store and in others with the Union Facilities Manager by securing a closet or unused room.

6. Decide if you will staff the collection box or table and at what times. If you are going to staff you should have a sign up or assignment schedule for who will staff it and at what times. If you will not staff it full time you should determine who will empty the collection boxes each day. This should be done twice per day, mid day and at the end of the buyback hours.

7. Let Book Drives Inc know all of the information so that they can assist you in determining materials needs. If you will design your own posters be sure to have the artwork to Book Drives Inc with time to spare to have them printed.

8. Book Drives Inc will send you materials needed about 1 week prior to your book drive start. Usually they are delivered by Fed-Ex at the address given by you.

9. Set up the boxes during the buyback for books not being purchased or books students wish to donate.

10. Be sure to empty and store the books every day until the end of the drive.

11. Let Book Drives Inc know once the drive is completed and the books are ready. At this time Book Drive Inc will arrange all shipping of the books to its warehouse.

12. Be sure to let Book Drives Inc know who you will support with your drive and in what denominations before your books are shipped so they can be cataloged correctly in the book Drives Inc system.