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Literacy to be promoted with ‘Deal or No Deal’
A book sale with a difference is set to kick off tomorrow at the Georgetown Reading and Research Centre, Waterloo Street, as part of the continuing efforts to promote reading in the society.
Rupert Hopkinson interacts with two of his patrons
According to Director of the near 14-year-old establishment, Rupert Hopkinson, the sale which is now an annual feature, has become a major and eagerly anticipated event thus is immensely supported. It is expected to continue until the end of next month.
This year the event will take on a new style as according to Hopkinson “the reading public will be in for a rare treat,” under the title ‘Deal or no Deal’. And the treat, he said, will be characterised by an instant 15 percent discount being offered to customers who desire to take advantage of the book sale.
The discount rate, Hopkinson said, could even reach an all time 70 percent high if customers choose to negotiate a better price. “We will not waste any time. It will be fast, we do not plan to take too long; it’s just a matter of getting people to make a sacrifice. Buying a book for some people means sacrificing something else so we are hoping to do whatever it takes to get our people to read…”
Customers, he said, will be able to select titles from the entire inventory of the Centre’s 200,000 odd books collection. Another 30,000 titles are expected to arrive in the country by early next month, Hopkinson said.
And though the sale is primarily to raise funds to set up a children’s library by year end at the Critchlow Labour College, the Director disclosed that it is without a doubt part of the ongoing mission to bolster literacy.
The Georgetown Reading and Research Centre was established in 1997, primarily as a resource to provide library services to post-secondary students but come December will be positioned to allow children from the nursery school level to borrow books as well. According to Hopkinson though it has not been an easy task to sustain a book store, the Reading and Research Centre has been employing innovative measures to ensure that reading remains an indispensable pastime even in the face of enthusing technological advents.
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