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Worthington Direct (www.worthingtondirect.com), a supplier of school, church and early childhood furniture and equipment for over 10 years has expanded their product line to include all of the quality booktrucks manufactured by Smith System. There are many styles available and every school department can find a use for these bookt rucks that go beyond just carting books.

School's today are increasingly adding roving teachers that share classrooms and have to carry their supplies all over campus. With the aid of a Smith System booktruck, they can tote their lesson plans, reference books and teaching peripherals across campus in style. Available in 13 fresh colors, they can sport their school colors or choose different colors to easily identify a certain department's cart. 

National Library Week is April 13th -April 19th, so go visit your local library and see some of these library booktrucks in their natural environment. Their sloped shelves are great for keeping books, DVD's or other media in their place while in transit. Booktrucks are also available with flat shelves that allow easy reshelving of large picture books or maps. Smith System uses soft-tread, dual wheel casters that won't shimmy like single wheels so the library will remain a quiet place for reading.

Worthington Direct is offering discount flat shipping rates for all of their Smith System booktrucks. Whether you need a new booktruck for the library with sloped or flat shelves, an Everything cart for the teacher who shares a classroom or the Gorilla Cart that hauls it all, buy from Worthington Direct and save! Order 1 or 2 book trucks and the shipping is $85, order 3 or 4 and the shipping cost is only $99! With gas prices on the rise, these flat-shipping rates can really add up the savings. 

Booktrucks by Smith System are all Greenguard Certified, which means that you can breathe a bit easier knowing that your students have proper indoor air quality. These helpful carts are all welded, fully assembled and are sure to be a teacher's best friend for years to come.

Other great library furniture carried by Worthington Direct includes library tables, library chairs, library bookcases and library study carrels. Perhaps instead of outfitting an entire library, you want to create a reading area inside a classroom, well Worthington Direct can help there too. Browse their website at www.worthingtondirect.com for early childhood furniture that includes big book display cases, media book towers and the always-fun reading train station. 

About Worthington Direct: Worthington Direct has been in operation for 11 years with an employee average of 13 years experience in the school supply, church and equipment industry, and knows what is important - selection, service, price and timing. www.worthingtondirect.com Our goal is to make your purchasing job easier.

With competitive pricing, knowledgeable sales associates, and "In Stock" products for quick, efficient shipping, Worthington Direct is committed to be your furniture resource. Schools and churches look to Worthington Direct for competitive pricing for school furniture, church furniture, preschool furniture, early childhood furniture, student desks, classroom chairs, folding chairs, folding tables, seminar tables, AV carts, projector carts, science tables, stools, padded stack chairs, library furniture, desks, wholesale furniture, computer furniture, classroom furniture, dry erase boards, markerboards, chalkboards, office furniture, room dividers, partitions, cubbie units, storage cabinets, file cabinets, bookcases, lockers, classroom carpets, booktrucks, easels, display cases, cafeteria tables, activity tables, classroom desks, computer tables, desk chairs, lecterns, literature racks, office desks and risers among its large stock. Continue Reading

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National Library Week is April 13th -April 19th, so go out and support your local library.  In perfect time for this event, Worthington Direct is offering discount flat shipping rates for all of their Smith System booktrucks.  Whether you need a new booktruck for the library with sloped or flat shelves, an Everything cart for the teacher who shares a classroom or the Gorilla Cart that hauls it all, buy from Worthington Direct and save!  Order 1 or 2 book trucks and the shipping is $85, order 3 or 4 and the shipping cost is only $99!

Other great library furniture carried by Worthington Direct includes library tables, library chairs, library bookcases and library study carrels.  Perhaps instead of outfitting an entire library, you want to create a reading area inside a classroom, well Worthington Direct can help their too.  Browse their website at www.worthingtondirect.com for early childhood furniture that includes big book display cases, media book towers and the always fun reading train station.

Click to see Julie Andrews make a public annoucement supporting National Library Week 2008. 

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School desks now have a future beyond the landfill.  Old school desks and chairs can be separated down into individual materials and then recycled to create new school furniture.  Worthington Direct proudly sells school furniture made from post-consumer materials such as Virco's Telos and ZUMA series school chairs.  Visit www.WorthingtonDirect.com today and check out the products in the Greenguard Certified Eco-Friendly Furniture catagory. 

Virco's Take-Back Program: 

This ground-breaking program involves taking back out-of-service Virco furniture - and potentially other products made of specific materials - from our customers and recycling the components. Some of this recycled material can then be included in the Fortified Recycled Wood™ that's used to make seats, backrests and work surfaces for our highly sustainable Telos™ and ZUMAfrd™ furniture collections; some recycled material may also be distributed to other users. Beginning in 2006, Virco established a regular Take-Back program that's open to qualifying schools and school districts nationwide. 

Recycle to Avoid:

One by one, custodians are removing desks and chairs from Dumpsters across Napa Valley Unified School District. All week, school Dumpsters brimmed with desks, chairs and picnic tables to make room for a new shipment of furniture for Napa schools.

Now, after a public outcry, the furniture will find a haven in storage facilities until school officials decide what to do with the mountains of unused desks and chairs. Comment Email Print ShareIn 2002, voters passed Measure M, the $95 million NVUSD school bond that budgets $1.5 million for the replacement of student furniture. The funds cover the replacement of up to half of NVUSD’s student furniture, said Don Evans, NVUSD director of school planning and construction.

With students on spring break, custodians busied themselves with the task of tossing old furniture into the garbage in time for the arrival of the new furniture this week. Discarded furniture ranged from decades old to relatively new. Each principal was charged with determining which and how much furniture to throw away, said Evans. At some schools, the number of discarded desks reached into hundreds. Nearly all of the discarded desks and chairs are functional, said NVUSD custodians. Some, said Evans, were clearly unusable.

It took no time at all for the community to respond with outrage. With districts across the state faced with potentially severe budget cuts, even custodians complained about throwing away perfectly good furniture. Evans explained that the district is legally precluded from donating the furniture because it was purchased with public funds. Past attempts by the district to sell furniture proved unsuccessful, he said.

Some citizens took matters into their own hands, driving out to schools and filling the backs of their trucks with desks to donate to local organizations. Evans said he was inundated with phone calls and e-mails complaining about the discarded furniture. So on Wednesday — with about half of the Dumpsters already delivered to the local recycling facility — Evans put an immediate stop to the process because of what he called “some bad feelings in the community.”

“I have people right now going to every one of the schools to tell the head custodians to store the used furniture on campus,” he said. “We thought we had a pretty good game plan,” said Evans, adding, “I just can’t afford to have the school district put in this light. We need to go back.” Continue Reading

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