Truth be known, it costs just as much to make those items available "online" as it would to make paper versions for retail sales. But here's the cold hard facts with regard to finding printed materials here:

• The BSA does NOT allow for some of their printed publications to be copied and posted onto an electronic forum for distribution. These publications are either available for retail sale from local offices (basic manuals and books) or are restrictive in nature to those officeholders actually performing the role.

• I have chosen NOT to post here publications which cost more than $2.00. These publications for the most part can be purchased from local Council offices. However, when all possible, this library will contain OLDER versions of those publications. An annotation reflecting this fact will be posted so that people are aware that the publication is an older (or obsolete) version.

• There are some items, for instance, the BSA's Drugs=A Dangerous Game booklet which I will NOT post here because the Drug Abuse Prevention Task Force uses the small fees charged for each booklet toward keeping the task force up and running.

• Finally, I will NEVER be able to gather EVERY form, application and publication from EVERY local Council as well as from National. I will try, however, to do so and here's where YOUR help will be invaluable: If you have a form which you use a lot, please scan and convert it to Adobe's (tm) Portable Document Format (pdf) and send it to me. I will be happy to credit you with the find if you like and will post it here as soon as I receive it and have time to update this page with the information.

  I will also forward a copy of the form, publication, or application to the U.S. Scouting Service Project's webmasters so that it can be included on their site.

Settummanque!

(updated 4 July 2012)

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