World Book Day 2007 - what's happening around the country

HOOKED ON BOOKS

A PROJECT FOR WORLD BOOK DAY 2007 AND BEYOND

For the second year in a row, the University of Pretoria, and the Tshwane Community Library and Information Services are celebrating World Book Day on the UP Campus.

This year, the celebrations will centre around an innovative community project: HOOKED ON BOOKS. This is a project to be launched in aid of the distribution and donation of books to specifically address access to books in South Africa. It will be a cooperative initiative of the Publishing Studies Programme (Department of Information Science), the Department of Visual Arts, and the Tshwane Library and Information Services.

Although books form a crucial part of our daily lives as educators and publishers, it is easy to forget that the majority of South Africans have neither books nor access to facilities that allow them to experience the wonderful world of books.