Ok board below e-mail I guess we need to decide how we want to proceed. I will do my research and bring a proposal to the board. What I think we might want to think about is having a committee for this with at least one board member on it. So I will start to do some serous research. Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy Bakken" <cbakken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: "Debbie Cotton (cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx)" <cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, March 21, 2015 10:32:02 AM Subject: RE: Library Telescope Program Hi Debbie, I’ve forwarded the idea up the chain to the head of programming, and she likes the idea. She has talked to Andrew Chance, the library director. And he likes the idea too. Spokane Public Library is interested in partnering with the SAS to offer telescopes for checkout. So of course many details would need to be worked out, I’m sure… The board would probably have to think this through and decide whether and how to proceed. You can consider me as the liaison at this point, between the library and the SAS. If you have questions for the library, let me know. If you want to have a meeting, let me know. This is my work email: cbakken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx . Thanks for thinking of us! Cathy Cathy Bakken Public Services Librarian Spokane Public Library East Side, Hillyard and Indian Trail Branches Direct Phone Line: 444-5470 cbakken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx East Side Phone #: 444-5375 Hillyard Phone #: 444-5380 Indian Trail Phone #: 444-5395 From: "" <dmarc-noreply-outsider@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "cgbakken@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC) Sent: Friday, March 20, 2015 7:17 AM To: Cathy Bakken Subject: Fw: Library Telescope Program ----- Forwarded Message ----- From: " cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx " < cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx > To: cgbakken@xxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 11:37 AM Subject: Library Telescope Program Cathy I am wondering if the Spokane area Library's would be interested in the Library Telescope program that started in New Hampshire and interest is now spreading to different areas of the United States. They started the program in 2008 I have attached a websites from different areas. If you think this might be possible I will draft a letter to the library of what we have planned. We have some excitement from a couple of board members. I know we have a member that is a librarian up at the Sandpoint library and I think they might be interested. http://nhastro.com/ltp.php http://www.cornerstonesofscience.org/what-we-do/programs-supports-and-services/library-telescope-program/ http://www.slasonline.org/librarytelescope.html http://www.kasonline.org/libscope.html https://www.astroleague.org/content/library-telescope-program Let me know what you think Thanks Debbie Cotten Outreach, Event Coordinator & Secretary of The Spokane Astronomical Society cave8@xxxxxxxxxxx 509-991-2518