Subject: Re: [permaculture] 101 PERMACULTURE DESIGNS, downloadable imgur album - Album on Imgur
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2015 03:45:54 -0400
On Sat, Aug 1, 2015 at 9:34 PM, Lawrence London <lfljvenaura@gmail.com>
wrote:
> 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.
This is worth reading in this day and time; building special information
collections on social media and open access to and sharing of included
media (i.e. Creative Commons).