Wanted Subterranean Climbers

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moorebooks

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Pitlamp said:
No problem - if my spare ends up spare, you're welcome to it. If it ends up caver posted you might like to consider a miniscule donation to the NPC's Library Extension Fund in return for the help of whoever is kind enough to deliver for you. But if it gets posted via Royal Mail, just pay for that and we'll call it quits.

(Those who know me will tell you I tend not to look on such things as having monetary value; I just like to see items going to people who will appreciate them but might not be able to afford them otherwise.)

Anyway, sort it out between you fellas and I'll stand by for a PM from someone in due course.
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I you use Royal Mail click and drop ( print your own postage and drop[ in a postbox ) its only ?2.95 if its bigger than 2.5 cm  and would be  a small parcel . I suspect it would be less

Mike

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Pitlamp

Pitlamp

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Many thanks Mike; that's useful to know.

Turns out Mr Dinwiddy lives reasonably close to me though, so I should be able to stash it somewhere for him or arrange to hand it over in person after lockdown ends.
 
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Judi Durber

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With all these personal libraries around I have been wondering what happens when someone dies or no longer wants their books,  :doubt:  is there always going to be people who want the hard copy if we have a dwindling, ageing caving community who already have all the caving books that have been printed  :coffee: 

Not everyone has the generations of cavers like mrodoc    ;)
 
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Jenny P

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Judi Durber said:
With all these personal libraries around I have been wondering what happens when someone dies or no longer wants their books,  :doubt:  is there always going to be people who want the hard copy if we have a dwindling, ageing caving community who already have all the caving books that have been printed  :coffee: 

Not everyone has the generations of cavers like mrodoc    ;)
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Very often we find the collection is offered to the British Caving Library (BCL).  We always say, "Yes please but on condition that, if we find anything is a duplicate, we may offer it on to another caving library."  This has worked well and we have acquired some very interesting items but it also means that items which turn out to be duplicates are passed on to other cavers. 

This is why we have our BCL "Lucky Dip" stand at Hidden Earth - an excellent way of passing on caving literature but, alas, no HE this year.  We have also recently circulated all the Clubs we have contacts for who are known to have libraries with lists of duplicates we have. Thanks to caver post in October this has already shifted 6 boxes of books up to those in the North. We currently have at least a dozen boxes waiting for caver post to resume so they can go south to Cerberus S. S. to replenish their lost library.

Note that if your Club Librarian hasn't been contacted it means we don't have your details so please get in touch with us!

If anyone does have any "wants", it's always worth giving BCL a try as we have many duplicates wanting a good caving home to go to.  We aim to use caver post where possible but can use Royal Mail if need be.

If you do need to contact BCL, our website is caving-library.org.uk
 
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