[NJARC] Save the Sarnoff book collection!

[John Dilks - K2TQN]

NJARC'ers,

Thanks to Sarnoff selling off their book collection at our meeting on 
Saturday, I would like to make a suggestion.

When our club started, we had a lot of ideas, one of which was to fund a 
museum.  With the advent of Camp Evans, this looks like it will become a 
real thing - and without a whole lot of funding on our part.  One of the 
items a museum needs is, reference materials.  This is a great opportunity 
for the club to pick up an entire library for our museum at Camp Evans.

I would like to call our meeting to order at 5:00 pm, prior to going into 
the book sale area, and discuss the possibility of the club purchasing the 
entire collection - with the idea that it be housed at Camp Evans.  This 
would mean that we, individually will not be picking up books for a buck 
each, but that the club will write a check and the club will own them all.

It would benefit the club to have a collection like this. And it would only 
hold up any activities for a few minutes - to open the meeting, discuss 
this with the members, vote on it, then go on with the festivities. If the 
members vote to trash the collection, so be it but I think there are many 
who would want to save it, and it should be saved.

This has great benefits for us individually, as members of NJARC, we will 
be able to borrow the books from the library.  So instead of going home 
with 10 books, we will be able to borrow hundreds over time.

I recommend and will be happy to make the motion at the meeting that the 
club purchase the entire collection from Saronoff with the provision they 
be placed in the museum at Camp Evans, or in an other NJARC museum if Camp 
Evans does not come to fruition.

It would be a shame to let this collection be dis-banded.

73, John Dilks, K2TQN