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[Koreen Brennan <koreenbrennan@gmail.com>]

It would be a great idea to send stuff to an already existing library
(copies though, keep the original). It would be great to have funding to do
this. There are grants to specifically do this sort of thing. This is the
kind of thing that should be a community project in my opinion. We're all
busy, and this should not be a few people's burden, but the communities'.
Sometimes, a wealthy person will become a patron of an effort like this.
They can even have their name associated with it if that floats their boat,
I wouldn't care. As long as the material is protected. Michael Pilarski is
involved in documenting history - there are a few others out there who are
very interested in doing so. Maybe we could start a broader campaign to get
interest for this. This is something that I bet would be well funded via
crowd funding....

I can't spearhead something like this, but will definitely support it.
Thank you for forwarding this idea Lawrence!

Best, Koreen

On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Jason Gerhardt <jasongerhardt@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > It is important to have a history archived; there seems to be plenty out
> > there trying to rewrite it for their own benefit as Toby said.
> >
> > As for the library...I'll volunteer to start one in Saint Louis. We can
> > call it the National Permaculture Library. I'm serious if there actually
> is
> > a need to house old books, texts, articles, references, and the plethora
> of
> > new works too. I can easily stack that into other projects I have
> planned.
> > There will come a day where physical places (and things) matter again.
>
>
> GOOD!
> I have one here but after I am gone it may wind up in a dumpster so I am
> hellbent trying to find a new location for it. I really have a lot of
> books, hardbound and softbound, pamphlets and useful notes, scanned copies
> of articles and ephemera. Public libraries have things they call library
> sales....nuff said about that. Most nonprofits but not all have their own
> agenda that takes priority and I doubt they would allow public or special
> access to any housed materials. Ideally an endowed repository would serve
> our needs best over the long haul, one that might have trusted people
> stewarding the collections and ensuring the library's continued existence.
> Some nonprofit permaculture organizations might be willing to secure grant
> funding to get the library started and keep it going or even house it on
> premises for perpetuity. Of the many ways this library could serve the
> permaculture community's needs there are several prominent ones that come
> to mind: 1) lending, mail order or walk in, 2) donations of duplicate
> publications to worthy causes, domestic ones and any abroad, like projects
> in Central and South America, Africa and Eastern Europe, Spain, Portugal
> and Russia and 3) acquisitions, soliciting donations of used, new and rare
> materials 4) obtain scanning, OCR, computing equipment to digitize the most
> important and fragile works in the library, maybe even a donated microfiche
> machine, 4) establish a rare books collection 5) solicit volunteer help to
> address all the ongoing tasks and projects the library will create. Money
> will need to be raised to pay for shipping of large quantities of materials
> to the library. There will be security issues associated with public walk
> in visits to the facility. Of course we could all send our books to Darren
> and friends in Australia. The Soil and Health Library was established there
> and continues to exist online. They have heavy duty scanning and digitizing
> equipment. I hope we can keep this discussion going.
> LL
>
>
>
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