Building a Library

[Jonty Wareing]

I'd like to start buying books/magazines that people would like to
use in the space and borrow for use at home.

If you have books to donate, great, bring them along. If you want
a book or magazine add it to the wishlist and we'll order them
from time to time as long as everyone deems them worth it:

http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Wishlist

--jonty

[tenyen]

j0,

On Mar 14, 3:42 pm, Aden Bos wrote:

> Dead trees take up space and don't like damp, an ebook and pdf
> collection would probably be better until we move to a better space.

When I visited the hackspace it was nice to browse an issue of Maker
Magazine for the first time,
(not enough to subscribe to the space or magazine myself ;) but I´d
(hypocritically) question further building a library without;

* trying to document what you already have (so I added to:
http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Equipment )
* considering something like:
http://www.unlibrary.com/
or
http://dlp.theps.net/
* considering acting as a (limited) guarantor to its members (e.g. I
have no idea who is a paying member and am generally distrustful
(especially of trolls and top-posters) but would like
lots of people to read my copy of ¨The Watchman by Jonathan Littman¨,
while limiting the risk
of losing it).

Are any of the other hackspaces doing something about managing the
dead trees in and around
their venues? (at http://dek.spc.org/ there is many a tome going
dusty and undocumented).

werd,

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http://tenyen.net/

[Runa Sandvik]

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Jonty Wareing <jo...@jonty.co.uk> wrote:
> If you have books to donate, great, bring them along. If you want
> a book or magazine add it to the wishlist and we'll order them
> from time to time as long as everyone deems them worth it:

Hey,

I see that 'Make Magazine + back issues' is listed. I have issue 09-12
that I'd happily give away. Want it?

--
Runa Sandvik