A Moon Books Drive

Moon Society India’s first project is to build a Lunar Resource Library of books that could be loaned out to members and/or chapters in India.

A good list of the some of the books in print that would be most welcome, is maintained by NSS/Moon Society member Ken Murphy at Ken's Lunar Library.

We are asking Moon Society members in the U.S. and elsewhere outside India, and NSS chapters that share Moon Miners’ Manifesto, to gather those books on this list that they or their members are willing to donate.

If you are a member of a chapter, gather all the books available from your fellow chapter members and send them to the Moon Society’s Milwaukee P.O. Box 80395, Milwaukee, WI 53208.

Or if you will be attending the International Space Development Conference in Chicago, May 27-31st, bring them with you to leave with Moon Society personnel (look of anyone tending the Moon Society exhibits in the ISDC Exhibit Hall. This will reduce collection shipping costs!

If you are neither connected to a chapter and/or won’t be attending ISDC 2010, just send them to the above PO Box.

Posters in good condition are also welcome. I have about 500 Artemis Project Posters in Milwaukee. But those are reserved for new members joining the Moon Society.
Scotty, Dana, James Gholston, anyone else have any more?

Collected books and posters will then be shipped to India by the least expensive method available. In India, the library will be kept either in Mumbai (Bombay) and in Chennai (Madras).

The Moon Society (International) and Moon Society India thank you in advance for your generosity. This is an open-ended effort, with no end-of-effort deadline. But, of course, we are anxious to get this project launched with a bang! So look now through your library. Those books you refer to regularly and prefer to keep for your own use, please do so. Those you can spare will be most welcome, however.

As we begin to acquire multiple copies, additional lunar libraries will be set up in other major Indian cities such as Delhi, Banglore, Hyderabad, Pune, Kolkata, etc. (Pune and Kolkata have NSS chapters that may want to participate)

“One book can make an immense difference”
 – get involve and make a difference!

Pradeep Mohandas, Secretary Moon Society India
moonsocietyindia@gmail.com

Jayashree Sridhar, President Moon Society India
jayashreesridh@gmail.com

Peter Kokh, President, The Moon Society
president@moonsociety.org


Thanks,
Peter