[NJARC] Save the Sarnoff book collection!

Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:01:57 -0600

john,

	best idea I've heard in a long time. probably the only chance

to obtain this type material at one time at a reasonable cost.

	plenty of room to store this library at the info age site.

						steve

-----Original Message-----
From: John Dilks - K2TQN [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 5:47 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [NJARC] Save the Sarnoff book collection!

NJARC'ers,

Thanks to Sarnoff selling off their book collection at our meeting on=20
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=20
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=20
the book sale area, and discuss the possibility of the club purchasing
the=20
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=20
hold up any activities for a few minutes - to open the meeting, discuss=20
this with the members, vote on it, then go on with the festivities. If
the=20
members vote to trash the collection, so be it but I think there are
many=20
who would want to save it, and it should be saved.

This has great benefits for us individually, as members of NJARC, we
will=20
be able to borrow the books from the library.  So instead of going home=20
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=20
be placed in the museum at Camp Evans, or in an other NJARC museum if
Camp=20
Evans does not come to fruition.

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

73, John Dilks, K2TQN

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