[rescue] In Realtime: Saving 25,000 Manuals — August 15, 2015

[J. Alexander Jacocks]

Two of my friends and I were at the warehouse, from 4pm until 8:30pm, last
night.  There were about 20 people there, working very hard, the whole
time.  I wish I could do more, but my wife was incredibly generous to let
me leave her alone with a two-week-old baby, as it was.

The estimates that I have seen posted online, for the number of manuals,
seem to me to be woefully low.  There are so many different unique manuals,
and there is very limited time available to save them.  Please, if anyone
has the time, come to Finksburg today, and help Jason.  You can contact him
to find out the schedule, but I know that they are working today to start
loading the filled boxes, from last night, and to unload as many of the
unreviewed shelves as is possible.

- Alex

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:05 AM, Robert Toegel <rjtoegel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, the time thing is a problem.  I also hate to see that info get
> trashed.  I finally started trashing all my stuff from teaching and I've
> been retired for just about two years.  Finally figurd that I'm not getting
> back in that game.  Anyway, I just hope they can rescue most of it.
>
> Bob
> On Aug 17, 2015 8:35 AM, "Lionel Peterson" <lionel4287 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > As I understand it, their first step is reasonable - start at one end,
> grab
> > one of each unique manual, dumpster the duplicates, and work as fast as
> > they
> > can. The unique manuals will be stored till the end of the year, which
> > allows
> > some time to come up with a 'next step'.
> >
> > With only one week available, I don't think they have time for any other
> > option, really.
> >
> > Lionel
> >
> > > On Aug 16, 2015, at 11:21 PM, Robert Toegel <rjtoegel at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >
> > > I tried to leave a comment to the effect of  didn't anyone think of the
> > > Smithsonian?  They'll take anything.  Just don't know if they'll let
> > > outsiders scan and digitize the stuff but they might allow volunteers
> to
> > do
> > > it.  Better than a dumpster.
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >> On Aug 15, 2015 7:03 AM, "Liam Proven" <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4683
> > >>
> > >> Apologies if this is old news...
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