Help Trek

[ironduke555]

Even if you buy Trek books or DVD's remember to request tham at your local library.You will be amazed at how many new fans or just old been out of it awhile fans you can get.If all of us did just this little thing we can ensure that Trek will grow on to the next generation.So please request every book and dvd you can every little bit helps.

 

[Anubis]

Actually, our libraries need lots of help in general.

 

[JAG]

My local library has very little Trek at all. I ask and they say they will see what they can do. The budget does not seem to be there.

 

[2of1million]

My library has a lot of Trek books. I believe they get almost every new paperback, and some of the hardcovers and trades if someone requests them. They even get some comics! They don't have many trek dvds, the chances of getting any season sets are probably nil. But they do have several of the movies. I do buy most of that stuff anyways, but it's nice to see Trek stuff in the library when I go there.

 

[Vic Sixx]

After I'm done reading them I donate my Trek books to the library. They had a good supply so I'm not the only one doing that. It helps the library and helps others discover Trek.

 

[misskim86]

wow Asmuch as I'd like to do that I can't imagine giving away my Trek library

 

[JD]

I'm not really sure how many Trek books my library has, since I never really go there unless I need to because I prefer owning my books indefinitely.

 

[ryan123450]

When I was at college the local library had a huge number of Trek books. But since I've moved back to my hometown, I've had to interlibrary loan the dozens of Trek books I read every year. They refuse to carry paperback books. Everything in my library is a hardcover.

 

[BrotherBenny]

Our libraries in the UK suck.

No interlibrary loans and books that fall apart at touch, and those are the good points. People have stopped giving to my two local libraries because they treat the books really badly. I donated a few books about five years ago and some of them look like they've been mauled by a targ on speed.

You're lucky your libraries even carry ST books. The last time I looked in mine, there were six - three of the ATT miniseries (nos. 3,5, and 7 I believe) and three Shatnerverse. Nothing else.

 

[JD]

ryan123450 said:
When I was at college the local library had a huge number of Trek books. But since I've moved back to my hometown, I've had to interlibrary loan the dozens of Trek books I read every year. They refuse to carry paperback books. Everything in my library is a hardcover.

They don't get any paperbacks at all? That's the first I've ever heard of that before.

 

[ryan123450]

I never noticed it growing up, but when I started asking if they could get some of the newer Star Trek books as they came out they said they don't buy paperbacks. Then I realized it's always been that way. Weird.

 

[KRAD]

^ That's not unusual. Lots of libraries don't carry paperbacks because they simply are too fragile to hold up to the wear-and-tear that comes of being passed around from person to person....

 

[ryan123450]

Yeah, that's what they said, but I still figure they could laminate the covers or something.

 

[KRAD]

^ That would get prohibitively expensive.

 

[Turtletrekker]

The library at the High School I used to work at had a lot of Trek, as well as Buffy, Angel, Dr. Who, Star Wars and others. The library at the High School I just transferred to has hardly anything like that at all.

 

[ryan123450]

KRAD said:
^ That would get prohibitively expensive.

I wouldn't have thought lamination would be that expensive, especially considering a normal paperback book cover couldn't be more than one square foot.

 

[JD]

Turtletrekker said:
The library at the High School I used to work at had a lot of Trek, as well as Buffy, Angel, Dr. Who, Star Wars and others. The library at the High School I just transferred to has hardly anything like that at all.

Wow, those kids are lucky. The HS I went to had about two or three Star Trek books, and possibly a coulple SW and that was about it for tie ins.