Your Donations at Work: new O&P library postings
Charles King
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Title:
Your Donations at Work: new O&P library postings
Creator:
Charles King
Date:
12/11/2008
Text:
Dear Colleagues,
I'm excited to show the results of the O&P library fundraising efforts. We now have a Reference Section to house a variety of materials in different formats, related to O&P. Your donations bring these new features and postings to our library. There are 4,000 members of this electronic mailing service. If everybody gave $1 per year, we have a viable operating budget for these special projects. If 400 people gave $10 per year, we have the budget to do further interesting projects. If 40 people gave $100, we would still have an operating budget and I'd send each one cookies as a thank you. As it stands, about 12 people donate to the library and this new reference section is the result:
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The O&P library now has an Ivan Long, CP(E) narrated flash presentation in the reference section. From 1985-1987 Ivan Long, CP traveled the country giving presentations on his socket design. We converted a 35mm slideshow from 1986 and Mr. Long volunteered to narrate the presentation in 2008. This is the result. Many more similar projects are in the works. Can you agree with me that this is an exciting way to capture history and in the author's own voice? It costs $1 to have a 35mm slide scanned at 400ppi: 24 slides cost 24 dollars. Having Ivan Long provide narration 22 year later and preserved for the future in his own voice: priceless.
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Progress in Prosthetics by Bess Furman is an outstanding 1959 snapshot of the post WW2 research efforts in Prosthetics. Modern prosthetics was defined by the post war research effort and this quick reading book is an outstanding contemporaneous history. Library donations were used to procure this obscure book and funds were used to scan it. If you read the introduction of this book, I guarantee that you will struggle to put it down.
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Abridged selections from public domain books: The reference section now contains links and selections from Google Books on O&P topics. I'd like to call your attention the book The Orthopedic Treatment of Gunshot Injuries. On page 198 [p.16 in the pdf], excerpted on the library's reference section, is a description of the shape and weight bearing attributes of the ischium in the AK socket, that might just border on ischial containment. The casting depicted on page 197 is remarkably modern for a 1918 book. What do y'all think?
http://www.oandplibrary.org/assets/pdf/The_orthopedic_treatment.pdf
There were many people were involved to bring these materials to the O&P library. We need your help. If you like what we are doing, how about contributing to the effort?
https://www.drfop.org/contribute/
Best regards,
Charles King, CP
I'm excited to show the results of the O&P library fundraising efforts. We now have a Reference Section to house a variety of materials in different formats, related to O&P. Your donations bring these new features and postings to our library. There are 4,000 members of this electronic mailing service. If everybody gave $1 per year, we have a viable operating budget for these special projects. If 400 people gave $10 per year, we have the budget to do further interesting projects. If 40 people gave $100, we would still have an operating budget and I'd send each one cookies as a thank you. As it stands, about 12 people donate to the library and this new reference section is the result:
<URL Redacted>
The O&P library now has an Ivan Long, CP(E) narrated flash presentation in the reference section. From 1985-1987 Ivan Long, CP traveled the country giving presentations on his socket design. We converted a 35mm slideshow from 1986 and Mr. Long volunteered to narrate the presentation in 2008. This is the result. Many more similar projects are in the works. Can you agree with me that this is an exciting way to capture history and in the author's own voice? It costs $1 to have a 35mm slide scanned at 400ppi: 24 slides cost 24 dollars. Having Ivan Long provide narration 22 year later and preserved for the future in his own voice: priceless.
<URL Redacted>
Progress in Prosthetics by Bess Furman is an outstanding 1959 snapshot of the post WW2 research efforts in Prosthetics. Modern prosthetics was defined by the post war research effort and this quick reading book is an outstanding contemporaneous history. Library donations were used to procure this obscure book and funds were used to scan it. If you read the introduction of this book, I guarantee that you will struggle to put it down.
<URL Redacted>
Abridged selections from public domain books: The reference section now contains links and selections from Google Books on O&P topics. I'd like to call your attention the book The Orthopedic Treatment of Gunshot Injuries. On page 198 [p.16 in the pdf], excerpted on the library's reference section, is a description of the shape and weight bearing attributes of the ischium in the AK socket, that might just border on ischial containment. The casting depicted on page 197 is remarkably modern for a 1918 book. What do y'all think?
http://www.oandplibrary.org/assets/pdf/The_orthopedic_treatment.pdf
There were many people were involved to bring these materials to the O&P library. We need your help. If you like what we are doing, how about contributing to the effort?
https://www.drfop.org/contribute/
Best regards,
Charles King, CP
Citation
Charles King, “Your Donations at Work: new O&P library postings,” Digital Resource Foundation for Orthotics and Prosthetics, accessed November 1, 2024, https://library.drfop.org/items/show/229929.
