Annual Report 2011: FY July 1, 2010-June 30, 2011
Publication Pipeline
The function of the Publication Pipeline Committee is to collect geoscience books and journals from those who no longer need them and to forward these resources to overseas universities and libraries. Most of the material distributed is from retired and deceased geoscientists and downsized company libraries. The books and journals are cataloged, boxed, stored and distributed when a need for them is identified. These books and journals are sent to overseas universities and other libraries that require these resources with the assistance of companies with overseas operations. When necessary, the committee applies to the AAPG Foundation for funding to ship these materials.
The core of our activities is carried out in a warehouse, referred to as Granite, where we
- Receive incoming donated publications.
- Inventory, repack, and re-box the material as needed.
- Assign boxes of publications to donations going to universities or to store them, awaiting assignment.
- Prepare pallets of boxes to go to universities.
- Label, prepare pallet inventory, shrink-wrap with plastic film, and arrange shipment.
In 2010–2011 we received approximately 2,500 boxes weighing 35–40 pounds each of publications from 51 donors. Total tonnage shipped since the program began is in excess of 81 tons distributed to more than 50 universities and countless students around the world.
This past year we inventoried about 700 boxes of publication, placed them on pallets, at 36 boxes per pallet, and sent 20 pallets to Nigeria, paid for by Chevron, plus 9 pallets to Nigeria paid by Shell, 2 pallets to Columbia, paid for by Schlumberger and 2 pallets to Bangladesh, paid for by Chevron. We sent two pallets to Mozul, Iraq paid by USAID. In addition we have two pallets ready for pick up to go to Vietnam.
We also have prepared two pallets each for Chile and Pakistan, on hold waiting on confirmation of shipping details and a sponsor.
We have prepared two pallets to go to the West Indies; waiting on confirmation from sponsor, BHP.
Storage capacity at Granite is 28 pallets. Due to occasional large incoming donations we temporarily use three outside storage units each capable of storing 24 pallets. Two of the units cost $180 a month. The third one is donated. We have about 44 pallets of publications that are not inventoried and about 10 pallets of boxes ready to be assigned to shipments to universities.
We have recently and temporarily, expanded to three excellent Temporary employees, through a Temp agency, working part time to perform the routine inventory and to move boxes and pallets around as needed.
The new chair for the Committee will be Jon Blickwede of Statoil.
Gerrit Wind, Chair
Committee members:
Jon Frederic Blickwede, Martin Macdermott Cassidy, Charles A. Caughey, David Drowley, Janet B Heagy, Claudio Dario Manzolillo, Amy Cara Moss-Russell, Raymond Paul Sorenson, Frederick M. Wall, and Gerrit Wind (chair)