In addition to supporting the International Arcade Museum (the main site, online encyclopedia, VAPS, and the message forums), the IAM also recommends supporting the 501(c) charity, The International Arcade Museum Library.
For more information, please visit the IAM Library sub site.
Please consider DONATING to the International Arcade Museum Library. One time donations, monthly subscriptions, employer matching programs, eBay revenue sharing, and more are all great ways to support our mission.
In short, let's grow the (physical) International Arcade Museum Library into a full museum.
As many of you know, and a few of you don't, the 501(c)3 non-profit International Arcade Museum Library was created on 09/09/09 as way to support the preservation of arcade and video game history, and opened its doors in 2010. It has a full board of fiscally conservative directors and board of advisors (both groups unpaid).
We have raised over $40,000 to date for the Library, which currently has several chief goals:
- To support a major exhibition to be held in Southern California, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and/or Chicago
- To finance an interactive library facility to replace our small library and exhibit center currently located in Pasadena, California.
- To promote the preservation of arcade, amusement and videogame history. For example, if the Library got permission to put up 10,000 PDFs of a 1980s video gaming magazine, we would consider undertaking such a project.
The majority of funds raised and being reserved for these purposes, and not for artifact acquisition, nor to maintain the main game encyclopedia, the online forums, or VAPS. While the library could purchase an artifact for its holdings, nothing has shown up to date that has been deemed to be the best use of limited Library funds. Labor is donated, and so is the small facility where the Library is currently located so there hasn't been any facility related expenses yet. Several collectors have offered to donate and/or loan items for exhibition.
Why is the library a library? First, it is focused on an area of preservation that needs to occur. Second, it has to do with practicality. This library project is sort of like 'training wheels' for a museum. Operating a library is much less expensive and complex than operating a full physical 'museum.'
If only a few members donated, the Library would be a library with some extra exhibits and some temporary exhibitions. The more outside support there is, the more the library can 'grow up'. Whether or not it ever becomes the next 'Computer History Museum' [Google for those that don't know what that is] is based on whether society deems its worth supporting at that level. While putting on a public exhibition is becoming within reach of this non-profit, a permanent exhibit space of stature is going to take substantial work and development. To operate a facility of note, but smaller than say the Computer History Museum, could clearly require tens of thousands of dollars monthly if costs included having to pay for its space. Thus we are and will continue to explore different avenues of community support while working on a plan to build up the non-profit's reserves. Having significant space donated to or purchased by the non-profit is likely key to long term viability.
Long term, a full 'done right' arcade and video game museum could easily be a multi-million dollar project. Let's build it in progressive steps. It begins with a foundation of moral and financial support from the collector community, and then follows with the support of the public at large, local communities, government, and business. The library was the first step in that direction, and our efforts are beginning to bear fruit. World leading archives and collections of arcade and video game history have been lined up. The next step can be a major exhibition and/or a transitional facility.
Special thanks to all our existing donors.
More Information:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/vision.php
http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/about-library.php
We ask for your support to continue to work towards making this dream a reality. The world's ready for it now.
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For more information, please visit the IAM Library sub site.
Please consider DONATING to the International Arcade Museum Library. One time donations, monthly subscriptions, employer matching programs, eBay revenue sharing, and more are all great ways to support our mission.
In short, let's grow the (physical) International Arcade Museum Library into a full museum.
As many of you know, and a few of you don't, the 501(c)3 non-profit International Arcade Museum Library was created on 09/09/09 as way to support the preservation of arcade and video game history, and opened its doors in 2010. It has a full board of fiscally conservative directors and board of advisors (both groups unpaid).
We have raised over $40,000 to date for the Library, which currently has several chief goals:
- To support a major exhibition to be held in Southern California, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and/or Chicago
- To finance an interactive library facility to replace our small library and exhibit center currently located in Pasadena, California.
- To promote the preservation of arcade, amusement and videogame history. For example, if the Library got permission to put up 10,000 PDFs of a 1980s video gaming magazine, we would consider undertaking such a project.
The majority of funds raised and being reserved for these purposes, and not for artifact acquisition, nor to maintain the main game encyclopedia, the online forums, or VAPS. While the library could purchase an artifact for its holdings, nothing has shown up to date that has been deemed to be the best use of limited Library funds. Labor is donated, and so is the small facility where the Library is currently located so there hasn't been any facility related expenses yet. Several collectors have offered to donate and/or loan items for exhibition.
Why is the library a library? First, it is focused on an area of preservation that needs to occur. Second, it has to do with practicality. This library project is sort of like 'training wheels' for a museum. Operating a library is much less expensive and complex than operating a full physical 'museum.'
If only a few members donated, the Library would be a library with some extra exhibits and some temporary exhibitions. The more outside support there is, the more the library can 'grow up'. Whether or not it ever becomes the next 'Computer History Museum' [Google for those that don't know what that is] is based on whether society deems its worth supporting at that level. While putting on a public exhibition is becoming within reach of this non-profit, a permanent exhibit space of stature is going to take substantial work and development. To operate a facility of note, but smaller than say the Computer History Museum, could clearly require tens of thousands of dollars monthly if costs included having to pay for its space. Thus we are and will continue to explore different avenues of community support while working on a plan to build up the non-profit's reserves. Having significant space donated to or purchased by the non-profit is likely key to long term viability.
Long term, a full 'done right' arcade and video game museum could easily be a multi-million dollar project. Let's build it in progressive steps. It begins with a foundation of moral and financial support from the collector community, and then follows with the support of the public at large, local communities, government, and business. The library was the first step in that direction, and our efforts are beginning to bear fruit. World leading archives and collections of arcade and video game history have been lined up. The next step can be a major exhibition and/or a transitional facility.
Special thanks to all our existing donors.
More Information:
http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/
http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/vision.php
http://www.arcade-museum.com/library/about-library.php
We ask for your support to continue to work towards making this dream a reality. The world's ready for it now.
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