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Tuesday, June 29, 2010

And so this is how we appeared in the ’Adevarul’ newspaper …

John Korst and Anamaria Catanoiu,  on top of 5 tones of books
‘Adevarul’ newspaper
VIDEO   A retired American postman collected 90,000 books for the children from Romania.
*Extract from an article published on the adevarul.ro website.
Ana Jitarita
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Tuesday, 29th of June 2010

The American John Korst wants to continue his ‘mission’ in our country
A retierd American postman sent to Romania in the last six years, nearly 90.000 books in English, donated by his fellows from St.Louis. From Sibiu to Brusturoasa (Bacau), from Pechea (Galati) to Reghin, the books sent by John Korst help the Romanian students to improve and learn better the language of Sheakspeare.
16 tones of books for three libraries
The biggest project that John Korst was involved in has included three public libraries and required a donation of over 16 tones of books.
One third of them, about 10.000 volumes, have been reached to Vrancea County Library, the rest being divided between the libraries in Baia Mare and Suceava. With this impressive background of English books, three years ago, the institution from Focsani, founded the Foreign Languages Center.
A gold mine
‘The volumes are very good quality and cover all the areas. There are expensive encyclopedias, valuable old books, dictionaries and important titles from sociology, psychology, literature and critical thinking.’ said Anamaria Catanoiu, the Center’s coordinator.
For the impressive amount of books, the institution from Focsani has reserved an entire section. ‘We have not yet made an estimate value of the volumes. We must first finish the inventory in order to have an accurate picture of the donation. However, we are talking about several hundred million clearly. But, if it comes to judge by the value of the books, this is a very expensive gold mine.’ mentioned Anamaria Catanoiu.
The head of the Centre said also that American ‘model’ is followed, in the recent years, also by Romanian donors. Recently, the library has received a donation of 700 volumes of Romanian literature from a private person.  

Article translated by Oana Zlatovici - volunteer