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Ken wrote:The Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, TX has a nice lending library for Museum members. I don't know how many volumes it contains, but it includes an impressive mix of aviation titles covering the entire history of flight, technical/maintenance/military manuals, pilot training materials, coffee table books, and paperbacks.
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wendovertom wrote:Historic Wendover Airfield museum has a very small original base museum collection. How? Several years ago we were contacted by the Redstone Arsenal librarian who was getting rid of very old books. A number of them had "Wendover Army Air Base Post Library" stamped on the inside cover! She sent them "home" and we now have them in our small but sincere library! I will have to reach out to the curator and get him to send me some photos.
DADE wrote:Your new donated book is far better than the one on the shelf but it does not have the author's signature so you keep both. Over the decades multiple publishers have produced the same non fiction book of different sizes, so again you keep the three books on that subject. All of this happens while the space you have on the shelves has run out long ago.
DADE wrote:The vintage books, unlike the modern books, do not keep referring to other books for knowledge and they cover one subject that was current at that time. The modern book keeps on inventing the wheel, how many books on the Spitfire, Mustang, Lancaster do we need, and why do they need to constantly recover information from other books to promote their own astounds me.
DADE wrote:Though all our books are donated and we do not have a way of picking and choosing what we want, we always hope there is one book that will be unique out of forty books that are donated to us.
DADE wrote:Back in some of my threads (April 2021) I thought we had one unique book about American Manufacturers in 1919, only to find that Noah307 knew sites that could supply a decade of these books thus opening up a site for followers of this forum.
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DADE wrote:Myself and other librarians reading this thread should build on it like your other one concerning Ground Support Equipment in Aviation Museums. We need another person just like yourself and Mark Allen M who does a magnificent job with historic photographs to champion the paper collection in Aircraft Museums around the world and I nominate you.
DADE wrote:But this is why your information is vital for the New Zealand librarians that would be on this forum. So thank you for this information, it helps others.
DADE wrote:An example of time wasted was our library was attacked by wellbeing volunteers internally over the years, with one thinking that U.S.A. was neat in explaining a short version of a country, that he would do the same for A.U.S. for Australia instead of AUS, not realising that one replaced multiple words and the other should only have referred to one. It took us three months of corrections on the computer to fix this mistake. Or the person that loved abbreviations so much that only she could understand them, even came up with an abbreviation for Azerbaijan not realising that the chances of aviation authors and publishers was about nil. Again months were wasted in rectifying this problem of abbreviating everything so that others could benefit from the written words in front of them.