Sorry y'all for scrambling the name. "The Birds of North America" Online
has now replaced the incorrect one I first typed (the links were right)
Tom
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tom McNamara <tmcmac67@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 8:09 AM
Subject: Call to "action" for the deserving, birding taxpayer of Portland
Metro area...
To: obol <obol@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, portland-area-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: greenfant <greenfant@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Obolites & PABers,
Let's get THE best birding database, The Birds of North America Online,
at Multnomah County Library. Easily done, here's how: fill in the
"Suggest for Purchase" form on the library's website, it's right here
https://multcolib.org/suggest-purchase
Unfamiliar with Birds of N. A? (from the preeminent types at Cornell Univ.)
you can get a free itty bitty taste of its wealth here:
http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna
My broad stereotype of birders is that they are educated and savvy.
"Savvy-ness" implies recognizing value and opportunity. If you are
currently a card holder at Mult. County Library, you're good to go, right
now, click the above link(s). If you're a Portland AREA (yes, Clacksters,
Washingtonians, Clark County, Hood River, you too are eligible for a free
Mult. library card). BTW, you savvy folks, you are, right now, whether
a MCL cardholder or not, paying for the library district. This request is
just asking them to get something of very high value .....because you're
Already paying for the would be hosting institution.
So, fill out the Suggest a Purchase e-form now, TAKES ABOUT A MINUTE.
Factual point: the acquisition folks at the library (not me) Are
responsive-to-Very-responsive but they have to evaluate interest. Numbers,
folks, Numbers! Do it! ..please '-)
good birding and up with high value birding resources at your fingertips,
Tom
ps. Shout out to Stefan Schlick who proposed this idea. He said,
correctly, Seattle's library has it. OK, it even has it's element of
cool-city rivalry to it. It's a very worthy idea. I will be monitoring to
see if MCL acquires it.
