Cruise books

Most of the cruise books in our collection can be copied.
The Naval
Historical Foundation www.navyhistory.org
which is in an office next to us, has a Document Reproduction Service and will duplicate the cruise book for you for a fee.

The fee schedule is posted online at
http://www.navyhistory.org/documentservice.html
<http://www.navyhistory.org/documentservice.html>
Contact the Naval Historical Foundation for an estimate of the cost to copy, bind and ship the
cruise book.

We can tell you it won't be cheap because the book is in color
and is 400 pages long. It will be extremely expensive to duplicate it.

1) ILL option: You may be able to borrow the cruise book through interlibrary loan. See
your local librarian to initiate such a request. I don't know for sure if
our Interlibrary Loan technician will lend the book however because it is
our only copy. We have this book in our collection so that veterans,
researchers and historians for all time will have access to the book, so we
would hate to lose it or have it stolen. If we do lend it then please note
that any cruise book we lend to another library MUST be returned to us via
FedEx, UPS or some other commercial courier service.

This is due to the fact that all regular mail delivered to the Washington Navy Yard is irradiated
for anthrax, and this irradiation process can be extremely damaging to print
and photographic material.
Furthermore, the cruise book MUST NOT leave the
borrowing library. It is for in-library use only and not to be sent home
with anyone. If we lend it to your local library, then you can view it at
your local library and take digital photographs of it if you'd like, but you
will NOT be able to take it home from there.

2) Purchase option: Cruise books are much like highschool yearbooks in that usually only as many are printed as are ordered.
Due to the sentimental value of these books to veterans, few are ever given away or sold. It could be very difficult to find an original copy.

Nonetheless, you might find one for sale on eBay or
through an online network of used booksellers, such as www.abebooks.com
<http://www.abebooks.com> or www.alibris.com <http://www.alibris.com> .

This library has the largest collection of cruise books in the country, yet
it is far from complete. Although ships are instructed to submit copies to
us, few ever do; we receive most of ours through donation. A few other
places you might find a copy of the cruise book are:
Jack Long Books -
http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/StoreFrontDisplay?cid=243880
<http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/StoreFrontDisplay?cid=243880> ; contact
him by e-mail; he has a large selection of cruise books not listed in his
online inventory. He's a nice guy to do business with.
Columbia Trading Company
One Barnstable Road
Hyannis, MA 02601
www.columbiatrading.com