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Please dig through your old videos, books, magazines or anything else you might have laying around your shop that's woodturning related and donate them to the woodturning club library.  We will gladly accept anything. Really.  Just drop it off with any club officer and we'll add it to the collection.

Library List

Below you will see a list of the contents of our library and the checkout status of each piece.  If you wish to checkout an item, you can at the next monthly meeting and get it at that time.

Library Key:    V = Video    B = Book    M = Magazine    A = Article

Why a library for this club you ask???

One of the significant benefits of membership is our Club Library of books and videotapes, all related to Woodturning. You will be able to find books, videos, and magazines relevant to all stages of interest: for beginners, intermediate, and experienced turners, by noted artists and practitioners. In addition, there will be numerous video tapes taken at the American Association of Woodturners annual conventions, featuring demonstrations of special techniques and the critiques of turnings displayed at the Show and Tell Instant Gallery. Further, I forsee a day when the club will hold in its library other items such as specialized tools or jigs or just about anything that can be loaned out to the membership to try out. All library items are available for borrowing by Woodturners of Southwest Missouri members ONLY. The standard policy allows two items per month per member, and operates on the Honor System. That means, that you will be checking-out (signing the checkout form) the library item and then be responsible for returning that item on or before the next monthly meeting.  As of this time, there will be NO CHARGE for library checkouts.  Your club membership dues take care of that.  How great is that?!  You can't buy even one video much less a  years subscription to a woodturning magazine for the price of the club membership dues.

As a newer woodturner myself, I have found the books, magazines, and especially the videos to be an invaluable teaching aid.  I watch them over and over again and I still learn something new every time. Beginners and experienced turners alike can benefit from a well-stocked library.

* Please contribute or at least suggest additions to our library.  As funds and contributions are available, we'll continuously add to it as a benefit to all members. We can only add what you suggest or bring in.