The Florida creationism library

I’ve been researching the history of Florida creationism for a couple of years now, and in that time I’ve collected quite a bit of stuff. I have hundreds of newspaper articles. I have school board meeting minutes, memorandums, letters, legislative bills, and even some audio and video recordings. I wasn’t keeping it very organized and when I sat down to write my latest article of my Florida’s Greatest Menace history of creationism series I got lost in all the piles of stuff. It was time to get organized. So, for quite a while I’ve been cataloging everything and I’ve finally wrapped up most of that effort. Then I thought: why keep it all to myself?

I now invite you to browse the Florida Citizens for Science history of creationism library catalog. I used Google Docs to collect it all so that I have ready access to it for reference and editing from anywhere. When you visit that site, open the “READ ME FIRST” file. It will tell you everything you need to know concerning how to use the library catalog. If you have any questions, let me know.

I still have a few things around that haven’t been entered in the library, so updates are coming. For instance, I recently obtained school board meeting minutes and audio recordings from those meetings from Lake County when creationism splashed down there in 1991. And I have a bunch more scanning to do of other things.

Also, if you have or know how to get items that aren’t in my library … then what are you waiting for?!?! Hook me up! If you want to help out in any other way — for instance, if you have any bright ideas for better cataloging methods or such — please let me know.

Enjoy!