We appreciate your plan to donate books to the ASSRA.  When the time comes, your heirs can contact the Archivist (if it is no longer me) and have them shipped to the Archives' address at that time.

What you're proposing to do is exactly how the Archives is able to pay about half of the cost of maintaining the Archives back to the ASSRA. Many members have given books and other items to the Archives that they no longer need. I have done so myself as I have duplicates of many books. Also, many of my personal books are cataloged as part of the Archives, which I will donate to the ASSRA as you are proposing.

I will be putting a notice in the Journal soon regarding the gift of a large group of Michael Petrov's papers to the Archives by his wife Janet Petrov and Joe Dobrzynski, who coordinated the donation of the material. As many of you know, Michael had a lot of material--the majority of it is bolt action material but there is enough on Niedner and Single Shots to make it well worthwhile. 

The ASSRA archives' focus is on single shots but the Archives has extensive holdings of other material.  Rudi's theory was that if it is shooting related, we should collect it as most other libraries are not interested in the shooting sports.

Cheers,
Laurie Gapko
ASSRA Archivists