Giving Tuesday

Help us share our rare book collection with the world!

The National Sporting Library & Museum’s F. Ambrose Clark Rare Book Room contains the institution’s oldest and rarest volumes. We are currently in the middle of an ambitious digitization campaign to make our rare book collection available online. Thanks to a generous donor, we have already been able to digitize 1,500 books. So far, our rare books have reached 36,000 people from 40 different countries across 6 continents — proof that our collections are invaluable to scholars, researchers, and readers around the globe! But we still have 2,000 books to go to reach our goal! This Giving Tuesday, the NSLM is fundraising for the digitization of the next 100 books.

Where will my gift go?

We have three specialized stations which are operated by a dedicated team of four Digitization Technicians. They work seven days a week to electronically capture each and every single page of a book, complete any touch up work, and then upload these files to our free online platform: https://archive.org/details/f-ambrose-clark-rare-book-room. It costs us roughly $50 to digitize a book. Our goal this year is to raise $5,000 to be able to digitize 100 rare books—from the old, to the obscure, to the one-of-a-kind.

Will you help us?