FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Re: Bird books to donate - OT of TN birds

[HagieCas@xxxxxxx]

Barry, I applaud your efforts to put your books where they'll do the most  
good.
The Ann Tarbell Library at Radnor Lake would be a very good place to  donate
your books, I think, or to the library at the Warner Parks Nature  Center.  
More
people need to know and use both these locations, and a little publicity  
about
either of them might do some real good.  I've been in a position to  use both 
of 
these facilities numerous times over the years, and if more people were  made
aware of them, it would serve the greater good of the community.   Maybe 
something could be sent to the Newshawk, the Nashville TOS newsletter to 
spread the word.
 
Hazel Cassel
Nashville, TN
 
 
In a message dated 9/8/2005 1:23:00 P.M. Central Standard Time,  
FINCH64@xxxxxxx writes:

I contacted our local Smyrna Public Library in reference to  donating books 
to the library. I have quite a collection of guides to birds in  different 
areas of the world - Australia, the Indian subcontinent, Wallacea,  East 
Africa, 
Southern South America just to name a few.

I know that as  a kid if I walked into my local little public library and was 
able to checkout  a book like a huge Princeton publishers Guide to the Birds 
of India and  surrounding countries and was able to look at pages and pages of 
beautiful  exotic birds like babblers - I would have been a very happy lad  
indeed.

So I contacted the library in reference to this but have heard  nothing back 
from them. I did consider that a donation like that might be  relegated to the 
Reference book section and that it also might create alot of  work to make 
room for a large number of books.

Is it possible that the  Anne Tarbell Memorial Library could make use of 
these books? I don't know if  that library is only concerned with local birding.

I do still look at  the books from time to time and I thought that if I 
donated them to a local  library I would still have the option to check them 
out or 
view them at the  library but wherever they could be of use is actually more 
important to  me.

Thanks for advice from any birders. I know this has nothing to do  with TN 
birds at all.

Barry Jernigan
Murfreesboro, TN