Inventory: 39
Points: 102.9
Mooched/given: 139/176
Pending mooch/give: 4/1

Wishlist: 55
Feedback: +175
Smooches: 9
Charitable gifts: 20
Charity received: 17
Friends: 333
Cancelled requests: 10
Rejected requests: 7

Will send: worldwide
Joined: 2011/07/10
Last here: 2074 days ago
(possibly inactive)
Country: United States

Books in inventory: 39

INVENTORY >

Status message:

This charity was set up to act as a library for Bookmooch journals* that have not been requested for several months, and also to recover lost and missing journals. It is deliberately situated in an area with no current population, and will have an inventory including those journals held on 6 "shelves" worldwide.

http://bookmooch.com/m/forum/bookmooch_journals/

If you find you have been taken off the friends list, please see the following:

I have been having a 'spring-clean' and have removed friends from the bmjl friends' list if they have been inactive on Bookmooch for 100 or more days. We may reduce this to 60 days unless the account has been vacationed and a reason for a long absence given. We are doing this time-consuming job in the hope that it will prevent so many journals getting stalled and lost. If you have a reason for a long absence and let us know we will not defriend you.

HOWEVER, it will not cut our workload unless journallers co-operate. If you have a request please check your requester has the bmjl logo in their friends' list.
If you delay sending check they still are active and want it before you send.
Add the following message as a review to each journal, unless it already appears:
This is a BMJournal not a regular book. You should be a friend of the BM Library bmjl http://bookmooch.com/m/bio/bmjl If you wish to join the project, type bmjl into the friend request block. A BMJournal is not yours to keep, the library returns it when completed and a slideshow made, to its creator. You mooch it, make an entry within two weeks of receiving it and relist it by the same number. Before sending it on make sure the person requesting is also a friend of bmjl by checking their friend list for the logo. If you add <> with between them with no spaces FONT COLOR = RED at the start and FONT COLOR = BLACK at the end, the review will stand out in red.
Thank you!

Keep journals safe and circulating. Please only send journals to friends of the library. Only moochers who consistently abuse journals shall be removed from these lists. If you wish to start journalling please contact us through BM email at bmjl or by email at bmjournals at gmail.com (substitute @ for at and leave no spaces).

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What is Bookmooch journalling?
A bookmooch journal is a blank book created or handmade by a journaller on a theme. Each journaller receiving the journal adds a dated entry with their BMid on some aspect of that theme. The journals at http://bookmoochjournals.com/ show the latest journals listed by their creators. Eventually when completed the journal should be returned to its creator. Slideshows can be viewed on Bookmooch pages to see the entries made.

We have to found a new site to carry the slideshows for us (BOOKMOOCH!). New slideshows and those of circulating journals are being added to each journal's BM page as fast as we can! Send any photos or scans to be included to bmjournals@gmail.com About 300 slideshows have already been added to date.
At the left side of the page in the journal site is a list of years and months, below the Flickr photos, and these are clickable links that will take you to the entries of older journals.
Journals cover an enormous range of topics, and are created by journallers.
The differences between journalling and normal mooching are that the journal remains the property of the creator, and journals should be relisted within two weeks of receipt and passed on promptly.
I will send invitations to attract befriend the journal library to any Bookmoochers wishing to become journallers who have good ratios, and who will at least consider sending abroad. A glance at the friends list will expain why! If you can't send a journal abroad you should be prepared to find another (*journaller) who will on your behalf.
(*Preferably a journaller because without the trail of moocher and sender this leaves, we cannot hope to trace stalled or missing journals).
My advice is to try a number of journals before creating one of your own. If you are about to create one, see the guidelines in the Bookmooch wiki and the journal site and/or seek advice from us by mailing bmjournals@gmail.com. The urls are below:
the Bookmooch Wiki entry on journalling:
http://wiki.bookmooch.com/index.php?title=The_BookMooch_Journal_Project
The_BookMooch_Journal_Project site page about how journalling works:
http://bookmoochjournals.com/about/
and http://bookmoochjournals.com/faq/

A new round-up of available journals on the journal forum (with clickable links) is added approximately once a month.

This charity was set up to act as a library for Bookmooch journals* that have not been requested for several months, and also to recover lost and missing journals. It is deliberately situated in an area with no current population, and will have an inventory including those journals held on 6 "shelves" worldwide.

http://bookmooch.com/m/forum/bookmooch_journals/

*
What is Bookmooch journalling?
A bookmooch journal is a blank book created or handmade by a journaller on a theme. Each journaller receiving the journal adds a dated entry with their BMid on some aspect of that theme. The journals at http://bookmoochjournals.com/ show the latest journals listed by their creators, "Through a glass, alcohol" has a short slideshow as do many of the older entries. Eventually when completed the journal should be returned to its creator. Slideshows can be viewed to see the entries made.

We have to found a new site to carry the slideshows for us (BOOKMOOCH!) as our present site is closing in March, otherwise more slideshows would show in the latest page of entries. New slideshows and those of circulating journals are being added to each journal's BM page as fast as we can! Send any photos or scans to be included to bmjournals@gmail.com Over 200 slideshows have already been added to date.
At the left side of the page in the journal site is a list of years and months, below the Flickr photos, and these are clickable links that will take you to the entries of older journals.
Journals cover an enormous range of topics, and are created by journallers. The differences between journalling and normal mooching are that the journal remains the property of the creator, and journals should be relisted within two weeks of receipt and passed on promptly. I am sending invitations to attract potential new journallers with good ratios, who will at least consider sending abroad. A glance at the friends list will expain why! If you can't send a journal abroad you should be prepared to find another (*journaller) who will on your behalf.
(*Preferably a journaller because without the trail of moocher and sender this leaves, we cannot hope to trace stalled or missing journals).
My advice is to try a number of journals before creating one of your own. If you are about to create one, see the guidelines in the Bookmooch wiki and the journal site and/or seek advice from us by mailing bmjournals@gmail.com. The urls are below:
the Bookmooch Wiki entry on journalling:
http://wiki.bookmooch.com/index.php?title=The_BookMooch_Journal_Project
The_BookMooch_Journal_Project site page about how journalling works:
http://bookmoochjournals.com/about/
and http://bookmoochjournals.com/faq/

To search for moochable journals enter BMJournal (or Bookmooch journal for a small number) in the browse box, which will bring up a list of those available to mooch.

BMJournals Library Charity Australasia Shelf covers Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, China and Japan, also French Polynesia. The shelf id is bjlcausasia

BMJournal Library Charity Mediterranean Shelf covers the Mediterranean countries excluding France, additionally Germany & Austria, and Africa and Iran, etc. The shelf id is JLCMed and the bio contains a list of countries at present covered.

BMJournals Library Charity N. Europe bookshelf covers the rest of Europe, from the UK, mainland Europe, including France, Portugal, Scandinavia and the Baltic States to the Ukraine and Russia. The shelf id is bmjlneur

BMJournal Library Charity N. America Shelf covers Alaska, Canada and the Western United States from Washington to California and inland to a line from and including Texas to North Dakota, plus HI. The shelf id is bmak

BMJournal Library Charity Americas Shelf covers the US states from Minnesota to Louisiana eastwards and all of the remaining states except for the Eastern Seaboard, but including also VT,NH and ME. It also covers mainland non-Spanish speaking Central and South American countries. The shelf id is bmjla

BMJournals Library Charity States Shelf covers the remaining busy Eastern seaboard states of the US: FL, GA, SC, NC, VA, MD, DE, CT, NY, RI, MA and the islands and countries in the Caribbean Sea and Spanish speaking Central and South American countries. The shelf id is bmjstates

Please become a friend of your local shelf as well as the main charity.

We need more volunteers to help man the library, particularly we need a shelf-holder for the Mediterranean and Africa shelf and for the Australasia shelf. Please contact bmjournals@gmail.com if you would be prepared to help!

These shelves will request stalled journals and those which have not been requested for a period of time in excess of three months. The shelf-holders will also be willing to offer advice and can be mailed about listing new journals, and adding slideshows, as can this central library shelf where the inventory is held.

Journals requested from here will be posted by the volunteer running the shelf where the journal is currently located, and when posted the requester will be informed from where the posting will take place.

This means all journals will cost 3 points and the points will be used for mooching stalled and 'lost' journals. It is hoped that, by the local shelf requesting stalled and misplaced journals, and the charity taking requests for journals, that the charity should be largely self-supporting, once up and running well.

Please make sure you always relist a journal by its BM number, as listed on the journal site, as shown here:

Home page:
http://bookmoochjournals.com/about/

Bio: