Great idea. I&#39;m very interested to see the responses.<br><br>As for magazines, we put the word out about a year ago that we were taking magazines. I had some ideas about the Youth program using them to make visual aids like posters and flyers, but that never happened due to one reason or another. As a result, we now have about 3 or 4 shelves worth of bike magazines that are not organized and tend to flop all over and slide off the shelf. <br>
<br>There&#39;s some good info in there, along with a bunch of ads, tho, so i&#39;m hesitant to throw them out. I&#39;ve been trying to thinkof a constructive way to use them. I&#39;m thinking that having a volunteer/youth/Earn-a-Bike student go thru and cut/tear out the useful information about mechanics/riding/training is the way to go. once we have the ads removed, and the info pared down to a reasonable stack of pages, then we can go to work putting it all together in some kind of 3 ring binder format, maybe sorted and organized by subject, that makes it more useful than a shelf full of old magazines.<br>
<br><br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Liza Mattana <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pedals2people@gmail.com">pedals2people@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hey,<br><br>We want to build a lending library at our shop, a place where members can check out books and magazines. Probably it wouldn&#39;t be more than a few shelves worth of materials. I can see the library broken down into 3 categories:<br>

<br>Resource materials to check out: books on how to do repairs, how to plan for bike tours, memoirs from people who have toured on bike, how to make your own gear books, interesting bike reads, etc.<br><br>Resource books, on-site only: tech manuals<br>

<br>Magazines: informative (not a lot of marketing hype), and good/entertaining articles<br clear="all"><br>Or maybe not. Maybe not bother with magazines? Other thoughts? We have a good stack of books already from our volunteers, used books we&#39;ve gathered from thrift stores mostly, but I&#39;d like to seek funding for buying more books. I think we should have a few Park Big Blue Books, the Bicycle Wheel, and a Sutherland&#39;s for the shop.<br>

<br>What other recommendations do you think are must or should haves? <br><br>Thanks!<br>Liza<br><font color="#888888">-- <br>Liza Mattana<br>president<br><a href="http://www.pedals2people.org" target="_blank">www.pedals2people.org</a><br>
Spokane, WA<br>
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