UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Soil and Health Library
Financial Statement
General Picture as of March, 2010
The big news of March, 2010,
is that Justin Crawford, D.O. has come on board, adding his expertise,
education and experience in natural healing to the library. Justin
has an ownership stake in the library's future.
Our website
host and web design is by i-Possible, located in Melbourne,
run by Matthew
Tew. I-Possible provides us with virtually 100% uptime maintained
by a dual server constant backup system. Matthew also provides
all needed site design. Matthew is talented, honest, caring and
responsible. I recommend him to anyone needing site hosting and
design.
The library has expenses but we do not
consider hardware and most software purchases as being expenses
of the library. In 2005 Steve Solomon purchased a Xerox 286 Document
Centre to the tune of a bit over $6,000, but this has not been
expensed to the library. Steve bought it out of pocket because
he uses it to print his own vegetable gardening book on it rather
than going to the copy shop. It also serves to scan for the library
at no cost—a win/win.
To expand the library contents we buy
used books, incur interlibrary loan fees and pay some international
postage because many titles are loaned and I have to return them.
Minor costs don't appear in this accounting: namely mileage, some
telephone expense, miscellaneous postage, electricity to run computers,
burning the midnight oil, etc. In June, 2005, the library was
gifted with the health-related books of Ross Horne subject to
paying shipping to bring them from Queensland. Ross' library will
provide several years advance work sitting on the do-be-done shelf,
an awesome responsibility. In 2009 the library purchased the collection
of Larry and Barbara Geno which mainly consists of classic books
on fruit tree varieties and propagation.
Nothing has been expensed against the
library's income for time and effort. Making this library is a
huge joy.
Financial support from patrons is experienced
as an appreciation of our efforts and allows us to expand the
site's activities far beyond what we otherwise might do if Justin
and Steve paid for everything out of pocket. The Soil and Health
Library is NOT yet a registered or chartered nonprofit. It currently
has neither constitution, bylaws, written structure nor bank account.
So any donations must be directed to Justin Crawford, personally.
Although we request only ten euros from users as a once-in-a-lifetime
contribution, larger donations are joyfully accepted.
Frequency of update
Just about every time new files are put
to the site this page will be updated.
Currency of account
Costs and donations often are indiscriminately
expressed in any of these—US, Canadian, NZ or Australian
dollars—without concern for the exchange rate. This inaccuracy
allows for simplicity. Besides, it seems irrelevant what the exact
balance is, as long as the figures below tell the story of the
site and roughly portray its financial position.