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Started in 2006, the club maintains a small library of books, CD's, DVD's, guidebooks, journals, magazines, maps, and videotapes. Members can borrow items from the library during a meeting or workshop.

BOOKS:
  • Amateur Telescope Making - Ingalls, Albert G. / 1941 / Pages: 497
  • Arizona Indian Arts and Crafts - Turner, Clara Lee / 1976 / Pages: 164
  • Collecting Crystals Guide to Quartz Arkansas - Howard, Darcy and Mike / 2000 / Pages: 159
  • Crystal and Mineral Collecting - Sanborn, William / 1960 / Pages: 144
  • Determinative Mineralogy and Blowpipe Analysis - Brush, George J. / 1898 / Pages: 312
  • Dictionary of Gems and Gemology - Shipley, Robert M. / 1951 / Pages: 261
  • Discover Nature in the Rocks - Lawson, Rebecca/Lawson, Diana/Panttaja, Susan / 1997 / Pages: 216
  • Economic Geology - Ries, Heinrich 1910 / Pages: 589
  • Elements of Oceanography - McCormick and Thurivathukal / 1976 / Pages: 346
  • Encyclopedia of Minerals - Roberts, William L./Rapp, George R. Jr./Weber, Julius / 1974 / Pages: 693
  • Gem and Lapidary Materials for Cutters, Collectors, and Jewelers - Zeitner, June Culp / 1996 / Pages: 347
  • Gem Cutting - Sinkankas, John / 1958 / Pages: 413
  • Gem Cutting Shop Helper - Leiper, Hugh / 1964 / Pages: 230
  • Gem Tumbling and Baroque Jewelry Making - Victors / 1962 / Pages: 58
  • Gems and Gem Materials - Kraus, Edward H./Slawson, Chester B. / 1947 / Pages: 332
  • Geodes of the Midwest - Smith, Edward E. / 2003 / Pages: 68
  • Geology Underfoot in Central Nevada Orndorff, Richard L./Wieder, Robert W./Filkorn, Harry F. / 2001 / Pages: 295
  • Geology Underfoot in Death Valley an Owens Valley - Sharp, Robert P./Glazner, Allen F. / 2000 / Pages: 319
  • Geology Underfoot in Southern California - Sharp, Robert P./Glazner, Allen F. / 1993 / Pages: 224
  • Hobby Mosaics - Bastlett, Maxine / 1958 / Pages: 64
  • Jewelry, Gemcutting, and Metalcraft - Baxter, William T. / 1950 / Pages: 334
  • Midwest Gem Trails - Zeitner, June Culp / 1964 / Pages: 80
  • Mineral Identification Simplified - Smith, Orsono C. / 1940 / Pages: 271
  • National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Fossils - Thompson, Ida / 1982 / Pages: 846
  • Primitive and Folk Jewelry - Gerlach, Martin / 1971 / Pages: 218
  • Quartz Family Minerals (3 copies) - Dake, H.C./Fleener, Frank L./Wilson, Ben Hur / 1938 / Pages: 304
  • Roadside Geology of the Yellowstone Country - Fritz, William J. / 1985 / Pages: 149
  • Rockhounding and Beachcombing on Vancouver Island - Hutchinson, Bill and Julie / 1971 / Pages: 55
  • Rockhounding Colorado - Kappele, William A. / 1995 / Pages: 203
  • Rockhounding Nevada - Kappelle, William A. / 1998 / Pages: 156
  • Rocks and Minerals (DK) - Pellant, Chris / 1992 / Pages: 256
  • Rocks and Minerals of California - Brown, Vinson/Stark, David Allan and James / 1972 / Pages: 200
  • The Great Book of Jewels - Heiniger, Earnest A. and Jean / 1974 / Pages: 316
  • The Jewelry Engravers Manual - Bowman, John J./Hardy, Allen R. / 1954 / Pages: 143
  • Ultraviolet Guide to Minerals - Gleason, Sterling / 1960 / Pages: 244
  • Western Gem Hunters Atlas - Johnson, Cy and Son / 1976 / Pages: 79
CD/DVD/VIDEO:
  • Cabochon Making for Pleasure and Profit - Year: 2007 / Time: 62 min
  • Treasures of Earth Diamonds - Year: 1998 / Time: 53 min
  • Treasures of Earth Gold - Year: 1998 / Time: 53 min
  • Treasures of Earth Pearls and Amber - Year: 1998 / Time: 53 min

MAGAZINES:
  • Jewelry Making Gems and Minerals
  • Lapidary Journal
  • Western Rockhound Magainze