Museum Represents a museum WC Yes EventsForChildren No Place The town or city Rhynie HearingLoop No IsIncludedThisYear No DisabledAccess Yes Activities <p>Visitors will have access to one warehouse to view our operation and talk to voluteers. There is also a bookshop on site.</p> OpeningTime1 10.00-16.00 OpeningDate1 17/9/2011 IsNewThisYear Yes ID Google Panorama ID 11850 Refreshments No Street The street address Richmond Avenue AddressLine2 Industrial Estate Postcode AB54 4HJ Parking Yes DisabledWC No LimitedAccess No NotAccessible No Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource BOOKS ABROAD Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived aberdeenshire Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context 200 Type The nature or genre of the resource Museum Spatial Coverage Spatial characteristics of the resource. current,57.3306,-2.833786; Description An account of the resource <p>A Missionary from Nigeria visited Banff Academy in 1974 and mentioned the great lack of books in his school in Africa.?As a result,?Keith Brunskill, a teacher at the Academy, founded LINK in 1982 to provide books to Africa. The Charity is now called BOOKS ABROAD and it has sent nearly 500 tonnes of books overseas to 1,500 schools and educational establishments in 80 countries. Our 2.5 millionth book was sent to Zanzibar in July 2011. Most of the work is carried out by volunteers, although we do have three paid employees.</p>