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- Due to limits of space and volunteer support, the Mountaineers Library is envisioned as a reference library for Mountaineer core activities in the Pacific Northwest.
- Our core activities include mountaineering, hiking, snow sports, and conservation, They DO NOT do not include bicycling or water sports.
- Our geographic scope includes the Pacific Northwest and the mountainous country of western North America.
- We also retain selected titles of national or global scope that pertain to our core activities. (It is not our intention to retain regional titles outside our Northwest-centered scope.)
- We retain titles within our scope in order to maintain a "living" collection that can be enhanced over time by volunteers with deep knowledge of our core subjects.
- Our intent is to partner with another Northwest library (such as the University of Washington) to transfer materials outside our scope to a location that can make them available to Northwest researchers.
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