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Dear All, I'm concerned about this Jefferson auction a few years ago. As far as I know, no Club funds were used to buy literature, but this pre-dates my time on the Board so I could be wrong.
George Yarocki is a Club member and collector of original literature, who makes some kind of living selling photocopies. He has generously allowed the Club to digitise his original literature at no cost, and we thank him for it.
Bruce Linsday is the Club Archivist, and has a fine collection of his own, mostly Harley, literature which he has likewise offered for digitising. Our President Rocky Halter has a good collection of Indian literature which he has also offered for digitising. Jerry Hatfield has some neat literature which he has also offered to the Club. These last three gents, plus then President Pete Gagan and then editor Rick Schunk, formed the AMCA Technical Information Committee which I chaired. The original concept was a physical library, but we quickly saw that a virtual library was the way ahead. Larry Barnes was engaged as an independent contractor after Board approval of the project, and he has done a good job getting us where we are now. For the future we hope to continue to shake down and expand the library, preferably at lower cost, by using volunteers and accepting digitised donations.
Meanwhile, the Club bought out the British VMCC Library surplus material for $4,000 including freight. I picked this up and packed it for shipping. There are a few pre-war brochures, but it is mostly Motorcycle Weekly, Motorcycling, Classic Bike, The Classic Motorcycle, Bike, and Motorcycle Mechanics magazines, plus the VMCC monthly magazines. There is much duplication and many of the boxes remain unopened. This 2400 pounds of literature is on the way to the AACA Hershey Library, where they will sort it and rack it for us, and the surplus will be sold in late 2009. In my opinion little or none of this stuff is worth digitising.
So we shall end up with a physical magazine library at Hershey, free to members, plus a digital library of the rarer stuff available to members at a charge which aims to break even on the set-up and running costs. I hope this helps make clear where we've come from, and we'll be happy to keep receiving suggestions on the direction in which we should be heading. Best regards.
George Yarocki is a Club member and collector of original literature, who makes some kind of living selling photocopies. He has generously allowed the Club to digitise his original literature at no cost, and we thank him for it.
Bruce Linsday is the Club Archivist, and has a fine collection of his own, mostly Harley, literature which he has likewise offered for digitising. Our President Rocky Halter has a good collection of Indian literature which he has also offered for digitising. Jerry Hatfield has some neat literature which he has also offered to the Club. These last three gents, plus then President Pete Gagan and then editor Rick Schunk, formed the AMCA Technical Information Committee which I chaired. The original concept was a physical library, but we quickly saw that a virtual library was the way ahead. Larry Barnes was engaged as an independent contractor after Board approval of the project, and he has done a good job getting us where we are now. For the future we hope to continue to shake down and expand the library, preferably at lower cost, by using volunteers and accepting digitised donations.
Meanwhile, the Club bought out the British VMCC Library surplus material for $4,000 including freight. I picked this up and packed it for shipping. There are a few pre-war brochures, but it is mostly Motorcycle Weekly, Motorcycling, Classic Bike, The Classic Motorcycle, Bike, and Motorcycle Mechanics magazines, plus the VMCC monthly magazines. There is much duplication and many of the boxes remain unopened. This 2400 pounds of literature is on the way to the AACA Hershey Library, where they will sort it and rack it for us, and the surplus will be sold in late 2009. In my opinion little or none of this stuff is worth digitising.
So we shall end up with a physical magazine library at Hershey, free to members, plus a digital library of the rarer stuff available to members at a charge which aims to break even on the set-up and running costs. I hope this helps make clear where we've come from, and we'll be happy to keep receiving suggestions on the direction in which we should be heading. Best regards.
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