Publisher and society put books on library shelves - Books - Brief Article

Inside MS, Spring, 2002

The public library is the original and still champion information center of our towns and cities. But getting books about multiple sclerosis onto their shelves is a challenge for these often underfunded institutions. Demos Medical Publishing, Inc., and chapters of the National MS Society are working together to put in the fix.

Demos has published a shelf-full of authoritative MS books, from clinical texts for health professionals to the 485-page all-in-one-place MS reference The Questions You Have, The Answers You Need.

Founded by Diana Schneider, PhD, in 1986, Demos has worked closely with the National MS Society over the years, with Society staff often serving as advisors and authors.

The Demos Public Library Program offers all MS titles at lower than retail price. Chapter staff contact libraries and raise funds locally for the purchase. Demos plates the books to honor the donors, and ships them. But in Mississippi, volunteers opted to deliver them to cement the contact and leave brochures about the Mississippi Division of the All America Chapter events and programs. Some 4,000 books on MS have been placed in public libraries so far.

See opposite for notice of yet another MS "classic" published by Demos.