{"id":729,"date":"2009-10-29T10:35:31","date_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/29\/hartland-library-innovates-to-provide-new-materials-on-a-small-budget\/"},"modified":"2009-10-29T10:35:31","modified_gmt":"2009-10-29T17:35:31","slug":"hartland-library-innovates-to-provide-new-materials-on-a-small-budget","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/2009\/10\/29\/hartland-library-innovates-to-provide-new-materials-on-a-small-budget\/","title":{"rendered":"Hartland Library Innovates to Provide New Materials on a Small Budget"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"posterous_bookmarklet_entry\">\n<blockquote><p>On the same day, Clark had packaged seven books to ship out \u2014 paying all the postage personally \u2014 though he said both the incoming and outgoing stacks were smaller than average. Web sites make it possible. Clark has 800 books listed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookmooch.com\" style=\"color: rgb(66, 101, 137); text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\">www.bookmooch.com<\/a>, 1,500 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swaptree.com\" style=\"color: rgb(66, 101, 137); text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\">www.swaptree.com<\/a> and 2,500 on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paperbackswap.com\" style=\"color: rgb(66, 101, 137); text-decoration: none;\" target=\"_blank\">www.paperbackswap.com<\/a>. He keeps a wish list of items he\u2019s looking for, as do librarians and individuals all over the world. Computers do the matching.    <\/p>\n<p>In an era when any publicly funded institution has to spend wisely, Clark manages to make a lot out of a little. His annual buying budget of $4,400 comes from donations, grants, and proceeds from the library\u2019s endowment. His salary and other operating expenses are covered by contributions from the towns of Hartland, St. Albans and Palmyra.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Very cool story about a library doing a lot with not much of a budget at all!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"font-size: 10px;\">  <a href=\"http:\/\/posterous.com\">Posted via web<\/a>   from <a href=\"http:\/\/ahniwa.posterous.com\/hartland-library-innovates-to-provide-new-mat\">The Imposterous Wa<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the same day, Clark had packaged seven books to ship out \u2014 paying all the postage personally \u2014 though he said both the incoming and outgoing stacks were smaller than average. Web sites make it possible. Clark has 800 books listed on www.bookmooch.com, 1,500 on www.swaptree.com and 2,500 on www.paperbackswap.com. He keeps a wish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ahniwa.com\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}