[K3CAL] Old Business: Donating licensing books to local libraries

[Eric Christensen]

Since I will not be at tomorrow night's meeting I wanted to share what I 
learned over the past month with respect to donating a Technician and a 
General Class study books to the local libraries.  (Ed, please take this with 
you and read it, if necessary, at the meeting.)

After talking with a few librarians, I learned the procedure for donating 
books to the library for circulation.  The biggest part is each library does 
their own acquisition.  If they have room for the books, and they are deemed 
something that would be useful/wanted they can accept the books.

Sarah Avant is the reference librarian at Prince Frederick Library branch.  
She was excited by the idea of the club donating the books and she immediately 
said "I want them".  She offered to do the leg work on contacting the other 
branches in Calvert County for me.  I heard back from her, yesterday, and she 
said that two branches wanted the books (I've asked which branches they are).

Paul Reilly, the gentleman who joined us in January to learn more about ham 
radio, did some investigating in the Calvert County Schools and discovered 
that there were no books related to amateur radio in their collections.  The 
librarian expressed a desire to receive the books.  I'm currently clarifying 
which libraries would want them.  He also suggested another book, _Oscar's 
Amateur Radio Adventure_ by Robert Norman, that may be of interest to kids.

With respect to the cost of the books, the ARRL offers a discount on books 
purchased by ARRL Instructors (Steve N3IPN and Shawn N3AE) 
(http://www.arrl.org/instructor-discount-program).  Both the Technician Class 
book, _The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual_, 3rd Edition, and _General Class 
License Manual_, 8th Edition, are $22.46 a piece.

Currently, the cost of getting the books into the Calvert Libraries is: $89.84 
+ shipping.

73,
Eric WG3K