In its ongoing effort to promote literacy, the Dublin A.M. Rotary Club will run a book drive during the first few months of 2010.

Organizers say the drive will be bigger than ever and benefit the Dublin City Schools, the Dublin Branch Library of the and Columbus Literacy Council.

Beginning in mid-January, the rotary club asks the community to donate new or gently-used children's books at book bin locations throughout the Dublin community. Bins will be collected in mid-February. Sponsor locations include five Dublin Cleaners stores, Underwood Orthodontics, Dublin Dental Care and the Dublin Branch Library.

The City of Dublin and Dublin Methodist Hospital will also organize book drives to help in this endeavor. Other possible participants incluce the three Dublin High School Interact Clubs (service clubs affiliated with Rotary), who would organize drives at Dublin's high schools.

Rotary member and literacy committee chairwoman Claudia Trusty says the books donated will be used in the Dublin's elementary schools, may be checked out from the Dublin Branch Library or will be used by The Columbus Literacy Council to teach adults how to read. Group members hope to collect 2,500 items.

For more information, visit www.dublinamrotary.org.