Gene,
You did ask me to explore costs for scanning and making CDs. Dave Lotz told me
he had all of the data sheets, so I ask Dave to send me a list of titles with a
page count, but he didn't respond, so I gave up on the project. I thought there
were many more than 14 for a total of 160 pages. It's probably not cost
effective to release a CD disk. Most members already have some or all of them.
It would make sense to post them on the web site for new members, potential
members, or other interested people. My offer to scan them still stands, if
someone will make the ones I don't have available. This would be a good pilot
program in electronic publishing, possibably allaying the irrational fears of
some board members.
Nelson
On Jun 12, 2014, at 11:05 AM, "'Gene Tacey' taceys@gpcom.net [CBQ]"
<CBQ@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> I am not sure what happened back when Nelson sent his offer. We discussed it
> at a board meeting and thought it would be a good idea to do the out of print
> sheets on a CD. I was supposed to contact Nelson that the board was
> interested and would he take it on as a project and if so we needed more than
> just an offer to scan them. We wanted him to determine what it would cost to
> scan them (probably no cost if he would do), cost of CD’s, Cost of putting a
> nice label on the CD, Price for the CD jewel cases, and a recommendation as
> to how many to make and how much to price them at.
> I thought I sent him a letter to that effect and never heard back. It is
> possible that I didn’t send it so he may not have known what we wanted. I
> thought this was a worthwhile project and have had it on my list of things to
> do for some time, but haven’t had an opportunity to follow up on it.
> I apologize for not getting back to Nelson, I am not sure what happened as I
> may have gotten busy and forgot to send him the letter requesting more info.
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> As to the archive material, it was determined by the board quite some time
> back that the archives (once we got them established somewhere) would
> probably not be able to sustain themselves and the cost would be borne by the
> membership. However, it was also felt that the archive material should at
> least help supplement the cost. Now that we have a physical location there
> will be a lot of work to develop a catalog or at least an index, develop a
> way to put the information on line and also develop a process whereby someone
> will be able to either man the facility to allow persons to come in to
> research or to find persons willing to do the research for someone’s request.
> As to the comment that modelers won’t pay for information, I am not sure
> about that. Some may not but having just spend a substantial amount for
> photos from the Nebraska State Historical Society I am not sure about that. I
> am primarily a modeler with a large interest in history. Time will tell on
> this.
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> Just a note about the data sheets. They were printed and sent to members
> originally as an insert along with a Zephyr similar to the I am a Burlington
> Man and other items that have been sent to members. They were never intended
> as a “publication” but when we did them we printed additional ones so they
> would be available at least for a period of time. We will probably not
> include Sign Sheet #1 on the CD whenever I get it completed as it is
> essentially a shorter version of Sign sheet #2.
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> Not sure what was meant by more information as the excel spreadsheet done by
> Ken is a complete list of all the data sheets that have been done.
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> I would again like to apologize for not getting back to Nelson before.
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> Gene Tacey
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