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

[James Tetlow]

Why don't you contact the ARRL  and see if they would donate the books in our name? (No cost to CARA).

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Best Regards, 73,
Jim Tetlow

> On Feb 3, 2016, at 09:35, Eric Christensen <eric at christensenplace.us> wrote:
> 
> 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
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