Missouri: Public Libraries in St. Louis Metro Begin Lending Telescopes
From the St. Louis Post Dispatch:
The public library systems in St. Louis, St. Louis County, University City and Kirkwood are trying something new — lending 17 Orion StarBlast 4.5-inch telescopes to any interested cardholder 18 years or older. The telescopes have been on constant loan since the program started in mid-November, with about 190 people on the waiting list as of this week.
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The program began after Jim Small, president of the St. Louis Astronomical Society, attended a conference and met Marc Stowbridge of the New Hampshire Astronomical Society. Stowbridge was walking by with a telescope with a bag of supplies attached, and explained that libraries were checking out the telescopes. More than 100 libraries there participate in the program.
The St. Louis group had about $1,000 left over from a conference it hosted in June and decided to use the money to buy three telescopes to start a program here. Library leaders required little persuasion.
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Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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