Our Results

To date, The Library Project has established over 800 libraries in China and Vietnam with over 390 more library donations planned by the end of 2013. Some of our libraries are small and others are large, but all of our libraries help to improve the education of each and every child that touches their many colorful books.

2012’s Results & 2013’s Goals

We had an incredible 2011 at The Library Project. We donated 313 libraries in 2012—a 23% increase from the previous year’s 254 library donations. The 313 libraries consisted of 158 “Reading Rooms,” 150 “Reading Corners” and 5 “Book Donations.”

With the end of 2012, The Library Project had donated 865 libraries since its inception. More than 500,000 children's books reached the hands of over 300,000 eager children. We could not have accomplished these incredible results without the support of our many partners, volunteers, and our dedicated team.

Riding the coattails of our highly productive 2012, 2013 is turning out to be an epic year for The Library Project. While continuing to strengthen our programs, we will be both expanding geographically and investing internally in our organization. We are very excited about successfully bringing TLP to Vietnam and improving the educational infrastructure that so many rural elementary schools, orphanages, and community centers are lacking through the donation of colorful and fun libraries for the children they serve.

500,000 Books Donated

The Library Project has donated over 500,000 children's books to rural elementary schools, community centers, and orphanages throughout China and Vietnam. To acquire our books, we work with various large bookstore’s regional warehouses, online book distributors, and resellers. For the most part, we receive deep discounts of between 20-80% off the retail price of each book. This allows us to provide the highest quality books to fill the shelves of each of our library donations at a very reasonable price.

The Library Project provides a wide range of local language children's books including: history, science, short stories, fairy tales, books for very young readers, children's dictionaries, children's reference books, and an assortment of comic books. Each school also receives a full set of children's encyclopedias for older students. Every book is in full color and of the highest print quality.

100,000 Used Books Collected

The Library Project receives the support of personal and corporate book donations, and has collected over 100,000 children's books through our Book Collection Campaign. This campaign takes place at elementary schools, high schools, conferences, companies, and in local communities. We only accept children's books that are of the highest quality and in "like new" condition. This not only gets the community involved, but also raises awareness of the hardships faced by rural elementary schools, community centers, and orphanages.

12,000 Librarians Trained

To date, we have trained over 12,000 librarians in both China and Vietnam. The Library Project has created a comprehensive Librarian Training Course for the teachers and administrators of every rural elementary school and orphanage. This course covers how to check-in and check-out books to students, how to use the children's books in a classroom setting, and how to get the students involved in the maintenance of their library.

Our Librarian Training Course is a "crash course" on how to manage their new library, and gets the teachers and administrators up to speed on day one. We have found that once we began implementing this training course, 76% of our libraries are used on a daily-to-weekly basis, and 100% are used on a monthly basis. These are the kinds of results that everyone at The Library Project is so proud of and keeps us moving toward our goals every day.