07-15-2010, 08:17 PM
I think the problem beyond the current listing being written in an obsolete computer language, is that keeping up an accurate index from month to month will require a bit of labor. The NMRA has a full time librarian and two or three part time helpers to do that job. Kalmbach is a business and labor has to be turned into profit. I don't begrudge giving extra perks to members of the NMRA. It costs money to run the organization and someone needs to pay for it. That being said, there would have been a lot bigger "pie" to split among the divisions and region after the 2008 National Convention in Anaheim had it not been for what could best be described as "dithering" by headquarters personal requiring extra conference rooms to be rented that weren't needed by the convention.