Overview
Below is our Salon's collection of inspiring, educational, and useful DVDs, Audiobooks, and Software for lending. Every month one or more of the moderators bring these items to the Salon in a wheeled case for our members to check out for free. Members are anyone who has either 1) attended three or more future salons, or 2) donated to the library. We add to our collection each month based on available funds and member requests.

Checkout Rules
Members must sign out for borrowed items and are asked to bring them back to the next Salon. If a member misses the next Salon they need to either bring them in at the end of the second month, or mail them back to us if they are held more than 60 days after the checkout date. Our mailing address is printed on each loaner item. Normal checkout is free, but you will be charged a late fee of $10 per item for anything kept longer than 60 days (two Salon meetings).

Vision
The Portable Lending Library is a small step in our vision for sharing great future-relevant educational materials with our community. In the long run we want both an online Digital Lending Library for download to media players, and a public physical space that our members can visit anytime to check out items in person.

Titles
See below for a list of our current lending titles. Are there any titles you'd like us to pick up next? Would you like to contribute any items or spending money for new titles? Please let us know!

DVDs

Fiction
2010: The Year We Make Contact
Blade Runner
iRobot
Open Your Eyes
Quest for Fire
Minority Report
The Clan of the Cave Bear
The Final Cut
The Ultimate Matrix Collection (Seven DVDs)

Nonfiction
Accelerating Change 2003 (all titles)
Accelerating Change 2004 (all titles)
Accelerating Change 2005 (all titles)
A Class Divided, Frontline (Classroom discrimination social experiment)
A Paralyzing Fear: The Story of Polio in America
A Perfect Candidate (Behind the Scenes at 1994 Demo and Republican Campaigns. Incredible.)
Arguing the World: Irving Howe, Nathan Glazer, Daniel Bell, and Irving Kristol (Great history of a seminal group of New York intellectuals.)
Baraka, Ron Fricke (Beautiful follow-on to the Quatsi Trilogy)
Connections 1, James Burke (Ten Episodes)
Cosmos, Carl Sagan (Thirteen Episodes)
Death By Design and The Life and Times of Life and Times, Peter Friedman and Jean-Francois Brunet (Poetic and scientific exploration of biological mortality).
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
Evolution, Liam Neeson, PBS (Eight Episodes)
Gifting It: A Burning Embrace of Gift Economy
Grandpa's Still in the Tuff Shed (Cryonics Experiment)
Grizzly Man, Werner Herzog (Life and death of the eco-warrior and self-appointed Grizzly protector Timothy Treadwell)
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train, Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller (Bio of the historian, activist, and author.)
Hyperspace, Sam Niell, BBC (Six Episodes: Star Stuff, Staying Alive, Black Holes, Are We Alone?, New Worlds, Boldly Go)
Journey of Man: The Story of the Human Species, Spencer Wells, PBS
Lagos Wide and Close (Rem Koolhaus on Lagos, Nigeria)
Life Series, David Attenborough (Trials of Life, Life of Mammals, Life of Birds, Secret Life of Plants, etc. - 33 discs)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media
Mindwalk (Conversational movie about systems theory)
Modern Marvels: Digi-Tech
Modifying Africa Through Modern Technology (Agrobio advances)
Monumental: David Brower's Fight for Wild America
One Bright Shining Moment (1972 presidential campaign of George McGovern. Inspiring.)
Orwell Rolls in His Grave (Corporate media's influence on journalism. Mesmerizing.)
Our Brand is Crisis, Rachel Boynton (US political consultants and what they do to the 2002 Bolivian presidential election. Mesmerizing.)
Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
Robo Sapiens, PBS
Robert Anton Wilson: Maybe Logic, Disinformation Company (Bio of a colorful and fascinating phenomenologist philosopher and sci-fi futurist).
The Ascent of Man, Jacob Bronowski (Thirteen Episodes)
The Blue Planet, David Attenborough, BBC (4 discs)
The Corporation: Special Edition (The greatest social change of the 20th century, the rise of the modern corporation)
The Films of Charles and Ray Eames: Volume 1: Powers of Ten
The First Year (A year in the life of five new public school teachers)
The Fog of War, Errol Morris (Robert MacNamara on War and Politics)
The Quatsi Trilogy (Koyaanisqatsi, Powaqqatsi, Naqoyqatsi)
The Robert Greenwald Documentary Collection: Bonus Disk
The Shape of Life: The Complete Journey of Evolutionary Development (4 discs, awesome)
The Time is Now, Kenneth Brady (Proposal for an American truth commission. Fascinating.)
The Up Series, Michael Apted (7 Up, 14 Up, 21 Up, 28 Up, 35 Up, 42 Up)
The White Diamond, Werner Herzog
Unconstitutional: The War on our Civil Liberties
Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War
Utopia (Futurist political trajedies of Hitler, Stalin, others)
Waking Life (Fascinating conversations done in rotoscope animation).
Walking With Series, BBC (Dinosaurs, Prehistoric Beasts, Cavemen - 13 discs)
Why We Fight, Eugene Jarecki (Explanation of the U.S. Military-Industrial-Social Compex. Fascinating.)

Audiobooks

A Brief History of God, Karen Armstrong
China Inc, Ted Fishman
Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond
Lies my Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong, James Loewen
Nature via Nurture, Matt Ridley
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
They Made America, Harold Evans
War in a Time of Peace, David Halberstam
Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki
Working with Emotional Intelligence, Daniel Goleman

Software

Microsoft Windows
Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional
Adobe Photoshop Elements 2.0
Adobe Illustrator 10
Quicken Premier 2003
Microsoft Office OneNote 2003

Apple Mac OS 9/Classic
Adobe Acrobat 3
Adobe Illustrator 9
Adobe Photoshop 5.5 and 6
EyeCandy 3
Macromedia Dreamweaver 2 & 3
Macromedia Flash 4 and 5
PhotoDeluxe 2