Bringing the books

Published: Wednesday, June 6, 2007 4:49 PM CDT
Darrell Todd Maurina, Waynesville Daily Guide

Fort Leonard Wood JAG donates hardcover law books to Pulaski County Bar Association

The Pulaski County Law Library received a large donation of legal books Monday morning from Fort Leonard Wood’s JAG office.

According to Linda Gifford, manager of the Pulaski County Sheltered Workshop and the wife of Waynesville attorney Wayne Gifford, the books were donated because increasing computerization of military legal offices made the hardcover volumes unnecessary.

“The military has gone to totally online access or CDs, so that is why they are donating it,” Gifford said.

The law books were quite valuable; most volumes cost at least $75 and some were worth several hundred dollars. With more than 4,000 books to move, that was a donation the cash-strapped Pulaski County Bar Association didn’t want to turn down.

Transporting the books created a minor problem, however, until Gifford arranged for the employees at the Pulaski County Sheltered Workshop to transport the law books for a total fee of $250.

That helped the bar association as well as the handicapped employees of the sheltered workshop, she said, and could provide greater visibility for the sheltered workshop.

“We want people to know we can do more than sit at a table,” Gifford said. “We can go out into the community if we need to.”


Photo by Darrell Todd Maurina Sheltered workshop employee
Amy Robinson and supervisor Kim Bowman load legal books
onto a cart preparing to bring them to the county law library.