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The University of Maryland's Smith School of Business in Shanghai held a very successful charity fundraiser for The Library Project on November 24, 2007.

With the help of over twenty corporate and individual sponsors, the Smith School was able to donate over 45,000 RMB ($6,000 USD) to The Library Project. This very generous donation will help The Library Project provide books and furniture to six countryside elementary schools in China.

The Library Project is very excited to announce that they have provided twelve elementary school libraries in less than a month throughout China. The Library Project donated thousands of Chinese language children’s books, as well as tables, chairs, plants, globes, and children’s dictionaries. Librarian training was provided at each library with hopes that it will substantially improve the education children will receive at each elementary school.

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Google launched a local Chinese book search. Interestingly enough, while this service doesn’t make its censorship explicit, it’s restricted to find less Chinese books than Google’s other localized book searches because it omits Chinese books published outside of China mainland – this is disclosed at the end of search results in italics, reading “These results only include works from Mainland China.”*

Tom, of The Library Project, sits down with Lost Laowai and gives us the skinny on this excellent cause helping bring books, and change, to impoverished areas of China.

A new herbal drug derived from traditional Chinese medicine might offer a first alternative to the current first-line medicine to treat Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis.

Gift Cards! This holiday season give the gift of children's books to an elementary school in China. Gift cards come in 50, 100, 250 and 500 book amounts. Each book costing 8 yuan.

The Library Project will be donating thousands of Chinese language children’s books, hundreds of tables and chairs, plants, globes, children’s dictionaries, and providing librarian training to an entire school district in the ShaanXi Province.