[AK-VHF] Public Libraries and radio books

[Jason A. Thomas, N4IJB]

Dear all:

It appears the Alaska library system is short on license study books or any recent ham radio books in general. I'd like to see the library have license study books so prospective hams can checkout books instead of buying them. There may be a copy of the tech license book, but there aren't current ones for the general and extra last time I checked.

One way we can cure this is to go to your libraries and make purchase requests and let them know that the community has an interest in current ham radio books, and the librarians should take that into consideration in buying books.
Let them know what other reference books are good so they can consider buying them. The more interest the library community shows in ham radio, the more likely they are to buy ham radio books.

Secondly, Anchorage has overdrive, which is a web service of audiobooks and ebooks you can download for limited amounts of time, the same way you can check out books. They have CQ magazine if you want to read it. I have it checked out right now if it shows as unavailable.

My wife is a librarian (not in the public libraries anymore) so I'm a frequent patron of the library. I don't know how the APL deals with purchase requests, but when she was the librarian for a Idaho library district, she would look into buying the books that the community showed interest in. I think it would be worth while to go talk to your librarian if you find the library is missing good reference books.
73,
Jason A. Thomas
N4IJB

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