On March 11 and 12, over 1200 New York City public school teachers will spend part of their weekend cultivating their classroom library collections. These dedicated teachers will come to a hotel ballroom overflowing with children’s and young adult books donated to Project Cicero during our annual book drive.

Project Cicero—named after the first-century Roman statesman, writer, orator, philosopher, and creator of libraries, Marcus Tullius Cicero—has been boosting the collections in school and classroom libraries in under-resourced NYC public schools for more than a decade. Now in its 17th year, Project Cicero has placed almost 3 million books in 15,000 classrooms, reaching more than 650,000 children.

The Library is a proud participant in and sponsor of Project Cicero, and we need your help! Please donate new or gently used children’s and young adult books at the Library from Wednesday, March 1 through Wednesday, March 8. For more information please visit the Project Cicero website, including our Wish List. Every donation helps this worthy and literary cause.