Books Available for Library Placement!

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Over the past fifty years, Urantia Foundation has given away thousands of books to libraries as part of its mission to make The Urantia Book widely available. The Foundation incurs substantial expenses for the Library Placement Program, not only in direct product costs, but also in staff time to individually process these orders and shipping costs for each individual shipment of this 2097-page book.

As the amount of activity grows, the Trustees feel it is imperative to stream.line the process and to work in partnership with readers involved in this area of service rather than depending upon staff to process each individual library order. We are therefore introducing some changes in this process in order to facilitate the involvement of readers in carrying out local library placements in cooperation with their nearest branch office of Urantia Foundation.

Under the new program, individuals may now purchase cartons of books at a discount rate to place in libraries. The new Library Placement Form is included on the following page. As the books are placed, we ask that you fill in information about the library that we can add to our database. When the completed form is returned to Urantia Foundation additional discounted books may be ordered.

Often libraries will provide a receipt for the book donation to enable the giver to take a tax deduction for their contribution.

We will continue to accept donations earmarked for library placement to continue serving those libraries that cannot be served by this policy and for gift books for the indigent and other gift book programs which readers wish to support. Our goal is to have all “free” books financed by donations so that we can further concentrate on the many additional programs needed to reach out to the world.

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World Library Placement Policy

(November 2002)

Because the Foundation subsidizes the costs of books provided under this policy,we ask that you agree to use these books only for library placement and not for personal or commercial purposes. We are selling these books to you on the honor system and trust that you will use them for library placement only. Often libraries will provide a receipt for the book donation to enable the giver to take a tax deduction for their contribution.

Top prioritise in library placements are:

  1. College and university libraries

  2. Public libraries including schools

  3. Religious libraries (seminaries, churches, ashrams, synagogues, etc.)

  4. Hotel, youth hostel, cruise ship,and other libraries provided for travelers.

  5. Hospital libraries

  6. Highly trafficked private libraries.

  7. Prison libraries (Note: Prisons typically will only accept books shipped directly from the publisher. If you wish to place prison books, please coordinate this through the Foundation office. Also note that via the IUA Prison Project, books were placed in all U.S.prisons that agreed to accept one.)

How to obtain your books:

Please contact Urantia Foundation with your order using this policy sheet with your signed agreement.

  1. Urantia Foundation will sell small English hard cover books for library placement in quantities of five books for $50.00 and ten books for $100.00, including shipping within the U.S.*

  2. The large English hard cover books will be sold at $25.00 each in quantity of five for $125.00 including shipping within the U.S.*

  3. The small Spanish hard cover books will be sold for $10.00 in boxes of five for $50.00 and boxes of ten for $100.00, including shipping within the U.S.*

  4. Large French hard cover books will be charged at $20.00 each in boxes of five for $100.00, plus shipping and will be shipped directly either from the French office or ilie Quebec office.*

  5. Once you have placed your book in a library, please complete the reverse side of this form. Be sure that it includes: the name and address of the library;a brief description of the library and contact person, if relevant;and the book edition which was placed.

Agreement

I, (please print) _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _, agree that the library books I am buying from Urantia Foundation will only be used in library placement and will not be sold or used for any other purpose. I further agree to fill out the form below and return it to Urantia Foundation with all information pertaining to the books I have placed.

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NOTES: *Additional shipping and handling charge for international orders. Please contact us for prices. All prices are subject to change without notice.

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