[SJAAboard] SJAA Loaner Telescope Program

[Gary Mitchell]

Rich N wrote:

> 
>>>How many people who have borrowed the LightBridge, or are in the que{sic} to 
>>>borrow the LightBridge, are experienced observers?
>>
>>You do not stop being a club member when you are experienced. Our most serious
>>loss comes when people fail to transition to regular observers. To keep people
>>in the hobby we need to encourage them to grow.
> 
> 
> Is it the club's responsibility to make sure club memebers transition into being regular obervers?
> 
> Is the loaner program the only way we encourage that transition?

In my opinion, some of you guys are looking at this from
the wrong angle.

Many of these same comments could be made about lending
libraries too... going in there and reading books on the
cheap instead of buying them, etc.

Would you argue that lending libraries should only be
allowed to lend to people who can't buy books themselves
or are just starting out learning to read?  I hope not.

Gary