{"id":320945,"date":"2014-12-12T15:57:44","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T21:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320945"},"modified":"2014-12-14T06:26:32","modified_gmt":"2014-12-14T12:26:32","slug":"tisd-campuses-donate-over-6000-books-to-literacy-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320945","title":{"rendered":"TISD Campuses Donate over 6,000 Books to Literacy Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/thumb_TISD_Logo_New.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2014\/12\/thumb_TISD_Logo_New-150x113.jpg\" alt=\"thumb_TISD_Logo_New\" width=\"150\" height=\"113\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-320946\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u2013 Students and staff at five Tyler ISD elementary campuses recently collected more than 6,000 books for Bill\u2019s Bookshelf, a project of the Literacy Council of Tyler. Bill\u2019s Bookshelf provides new and gently used children\u2019s books free to families in the community. Bookshelves are placed at sites where low-income families have easy access to them, and children are invited to choose a book to keep. <!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>Participating Tyler ISD campuses included Caldwell Elementary Arts Academy, Douglas Elementary School, Dr. Bryan C. Jack Elementary School, Owens Elementary School, and Andy Woods Elementary School. The Literacy Council distributes approximately 2,000 books per month. Therefore, the 6,000 book collection will help stock the bookshelves for three months.  \u201cOur students, parents and staff members were excited about the opportunity to give back to the community, and provide books for children that may not have any, by participating in the book drive benefitting Bill\u2019s Bookshelf,\u201d Michelle Overmeyer, receptionist at Woods Elementary School, said. <\/p>\n<p>TISD officials say two Literacy Council interns from The University of Texas at Tyler, Marysol Romero and Ashley Watts, initiated the drive by reaching out to the elementary campuses.   &#8220;We went into the project not knowing the outcome, but on pick up day we were amazed at the outstanding number of books donated,\u201d Romero said. \u201cWe are thankful for the participating schools and look forward to the next book drive with Tyler ISD in 2015.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u2013 Students and staff at five Tyler ISD elementary campuses recently collected more than 6,000 books for Bill\u2019s Bookshelf, a project of the Literacy Council of Tyler. Bill\u2019s Bookshelf provides new and gently used children\u2019s books free to families in the community. Bookshelves are placed at sites where low-income families have easy access to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=320945\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">TISD Campuses Donate over 6,000 Books to Literacy Council<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-320945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 15:27:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=320945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":320947,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320945\/revisions\/320947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=320945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=320945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=320945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}