The
David Sarnoff Library and Museum suffered a tremendous amount of flood damage this past week. A large amount of original historic material related to television history has been damaged and requires immediate remediation. The library operates on a shoestring budget and could use help.
Please check out
this page on the David Sarnoff Library's website for complete information.
The library / museum is a separate nonprofit entity and is NOT funded by Sarnoff Corporation. Sarnoff is going to help out with the effort, but the cost of saving the waterlogged documents is going to be way more than the nonprofit's annual operating budget.
If you're like me, you're being hit up from all sides for donations for this or that worthy cause, and life is expensive enough as it is, but please consider a flood relief donation, a membership in the Friends of the Library or just send a buck via PayPal to help out. I've sent in a donation; I hope folks here can too. This is where a lot of what we all care about all started and it was a frightening thing to see all these irreplacible historic documents potentially lost forever. They
will be saved: they don't yet know exactly how they're going to cover the substantial cost, but the recovery work had to be started immediately in order to prevent mold from destroying things.
Thanks for whatever you can do!
Dave Sica
for Alex Magoun, Director of the David Sarnoff Library
.