ISBONA Library Policies
ISBONA members in good standing are eligible to check out items from the library.
Items are available for a 3 week check out for USA members and a 4 week check out for Canadian and Alaskan members.
There is a limit of three items per loan.
Items will be sent through the US Postal Service/Canadian Postal Service and must be insured for full value. On return of materials to the librarian, please enclose a check made payable to ISBONA for the cost of shipping to you, including insurance.
The borrower is responsible for damage to library material.
If the material is damaged but useable, a prorated charge will be assessed and paid to the ISBONA Library Fund.
Insurance claims must be submitted to replace materials lost in shipping.
Claims for materials lost in shipping to borrower will be submitted by the librarian.
Claims for materials being returned to the Library will be submitted by the borrower.
A member who fails to file a claim will be billed for the lost item.
A late fee of $5 per week is charged for a maximum of four weeks past the due date.
At the end of this period the member will be billed for the value of the item.
If at this time the item is returned, only the $20 late fee will be due.
If the account is not settled within one month of billing, it will be referred to the Board of Directors who are authorized to limit the member's ISBONA activities, up to and including terminating the member's ISBONA membership.
ISBONA Library Inventory List
Title: The Icelandic Heritage
Author: Nelson S Gerrard
Media type: Book
Donated by: Stefania Dignam
Description: An overview of Icelandic history lifestyle and culture. Many fascinating illustrations and much genealogical information.
Title: Colour inheritance in Icelandic sheep and relation between colour, fertility and fertilization
Author: Stefan Adalsteinsson, PH.D
Media type: Book
Donated by: Barbara Webb, Susan Mongold
Description: An extensive study of Icelandic sheep genetics. Some good photos of color and patterns.
Title: First and Second Importation of Icelandic Sheep to North America by Stephania Dignum and Barbara Webb
Media type: Three VCR tapes
Donated by: ISBONA
Title: The Good Shepherd
Author: Gunnar Gunnarsson
Media type: Book
Donated by: Nancy Ellison
Description: A novel. The story of Old Benedikt, his sheepdog, and leader sheep wether, who go into the stormy mountains during Advent, to retrieve the sheep which had not been brought home during the autumn roundup.
Title: Spinning Exotic Fibers & Novelty Yarns
Author: Judith Mackenzie
Media type: VCR tape
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: Learn to spin fibers from the Camel, Llama, Alpaca, Cashmere, Angora, Dog, Rabbit, and Musk Ox. Live footage of many of the animals. Learn to produce and use novelty yarn, including spiral, gimp, boucle, Turkish knot, cocoon and more.
Title: Small-Scale Livestock Farming: A Grass Based Approach for Health, Sustainability, and Profit
Author: Carol Ekarius
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: A natural, organic approach to livestock management which includes case studies of sucessful farms, nitty gritty details, and tips on creating a financial and biological farm plan.
Title: Spring Pasture Lambing
Author: Janet McNally
Media type: Audio cassette
Donated by: ISBONA
Title: Multiple Species Grazing
Author: Janet McNally
Media type: Audio cassette
Donated by: ISBONA
Title: Managing your ewe and her newborn lambs
Author: Laura Lawson
Media type: Book
Donated by: Lisa Roskopf
Description: Breeding, gestation, lactation, newborn management, diagnostic check sheets, flow charts, symptom-treatment-cause text.
Title: Easy Detecting Diagnosing Treating Lamb Problems
Author: Laura Lawson
Media type: Book
Donated by: Lisa Roskopf
Description: Symptom flow chart, speed read systom, symptom-treatment-cure.
Title: Reproduction, Growth and Nutrition in Sheep
Author: Dr. Halldor Palsson Memorial Publication, edited by Olafur R. Dyrmundsson and Sigurgeir Thorgeirsson
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Title: Storey's Guide to Raising Sheep
Author: Paula Simmons & Carol Ekarius
Media type: Book
Donated by: Tongue River Farm
Description: Comprehensive volume of information on everything: breeds, feeding and housing, breeding and lambind, pasture management, diseases and health care, herding dogs, and showing.
Title: Lambing Time Management - Tape 1 Pre-Lambing period
Author: Don Bailey DVM & Woody Lane Ph. D
Media type: VCR Tape
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: Abortion, handling needles, vaccination, feeding, condition scoring, management tips, prelambing shearing and crutching, vaginal prolapse and how to worm.
Title: Lambing Time Management - Tape 2 Lambing
Author: Don Bailey DVM & Woody Lane Ph. D
Media type: VCR Tape
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: Lambing signs, reviving newborns, dealing with malpresentations and delivering difficult births.
Title: Lambing Time Management - Tape 3 Post-Lambing period
Author: Don Bailey DVM & Woody Lane Ph. D
Media type: VCR Tape
Donated by: ISBONA
Title: Independent People
Author: Halldor Laxness
Media type: Book
Donated by: Laurie Ball-Gisch
Description: A Nobel Prize winning novel The travails of an independent and strong willed Icelandic shepherd/freeholder, in the early 1900's. Icelandic author. An unforgettable read.
Title: The Sheep Book
Author: Ron Parker
Media type: Book
Donated by: Laurie Ball-Gisch
Description: A handy mix of theoretical, technical and practical information for the beginner and the old hand alike. This book is structured around the cycle of the ewe's year, from rebuilding prior to breeding, thru the weaning of lambs.
Title: Alden Amos Big Book of Handspinning
Author: Alden Amos, Stephenie Gaustad (Illustrator)
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: An enjoyable and opinionated encyclopedia of equipment, techniques and information. "Being a compendium of information, advice, and opinions on the noble art and craft".
Title: The Icelandic Fleece - A Fiber for All Reasons
Author: Beth Abbott
Media type: Book
Donated by: Beth & Ron Abbott
Description: A detailed work covering the handling, spinning and use of the Icelandic fleece, and about the culture in which these sheep have played such a crucial part. This is Elizabeth's In-Depth Study, done as part of her Master Spinner's Certificate Program. A very great deal of invaluable information.
Title: Shearing Techniques with Fionna Nettleton
Author:
Media type: Video - 100 minutes
Donated by: ISBONA
Fionna was the Golden Shears Junior Champion Shearer of New Zealand, of 1988. She explains and demonstrates the actual techniques of shearing in this 100 minute video.
Title: Veterinary Sheep Notes 2002
Author: Neil V. Anderson DVM
Media type: CD-Rom
Donated by: ISBONA
Title: New Directions for Felt, An Ancient Craft
Author: Gunilla Paetau Sjoberg
Media type: Book
Donated by: Helen McFarland
Title: Knitting Without Tears
Author: Elizabeth Zimmerman
Media type: Book
Donated by: Helen McFarland
DescripionA witty, readable "philosophy of knitting" offering common sense solutions to knitting problems. Easy to follow and highly readable. Once you "meet" Elizabeth you will not forget her.
Title: Spinning and Weaving with Wool
Author: Paula Simmons
Media type: Book
Donated by: Helen McFarland
Description: All the essential information you require to become a successful spinner and weaver of hand spun wool. How to use the spindle, spinning wheel and great wheel. How to build your own equipment. An excellent resource.
Title: Turning Wool Into a Cottage Industry
Author: Paula Simmons
Media type: Book
Donated by: Virginia Hinchman
Description: The book for anyone thinking of turning a craft into a home based industry . No nonsense information from one who has done it.
Title: Color in Spinning
Author: Deb Menz
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
A practice guide to color for hand spinners including immersion dying, painting roving, blending colors, and spinning and plying multicolored preparations.
Title: Dye Plants and Dyeing ~ A handbook
Author: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
Description: A classic from 1964, with 16 articles on history and recipes of natural dyes plant usage from many places and times: Plymouth Colony, a Scottish garden, the ancient Aztecs, and more.
Title: Natural Plant Dying ~ A handbook
Author: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
Description: A classic compendium of 30 essays on natural dyes from around the world. First published in 1973. Including a one page article "Color in Iceland" with reference to other sources.
Title: Spin Span Spun ~ Fact and Folklore for Spinners and Weavers
Author: Bette Hochberg
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
Description: A Classic, and an absolutely fascinating assemblage of "fact and folklore for spinners and weavers". Answers to hundreds of questions you did not know you wanted to ask.
Title: Handspinner's Handbook
Author: Bette Hochberg
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
Description: A very comprehensive book covering wheel spinning, plying, skeining, fiber preparation, yarn types, sheep breed, and just about every fiber you can think of; dog and cat, silk, musk ox, llama, cotton, flax, coir (from coconuts) and many more. Includes how to make and use a distaff.
Title: Spinning and Dying the Natural Way
Author: Ruth Castino
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
Description: An introduction to fiber preparation, spinning, natural dyeing, and uses for handspun...knitting/weaving/embroidery/crochet Photos feature the author's elementary school pupils. A good book for those planning teaching sessions.
Title: A Dyer's Garden
Author: Rita Buchanan
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
Description: How to establish a dye plant garden and use plants for dyeing. Excellant illustrations and recipes. Good estimates on area needed correlated with plant production amopunts of dyestuff produced.
Title: Sheep and Goat Medicine
Author: D.G. Pugh, DVM
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: A technical veterinary manual with many photos, illustrations and charts.
Title: Shearing Day
Author: Kevin Ford
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: Sheep handling, wool science, and shearing with blades discussed, explained and well illustrated. Interesting history of how machine shearing became dominant.
Title: Out Standing in Their Field
The Rural Adventures of Hap and Edna
Author: Bob Collins
Media type: Book
Donated by: Susan Mongold
Description: Fourteen farm stories from BC's best loved farm couple, complete with a colorful cast of characters both animal and human. " Mark Twain with a twist of James Thurber".
Title: From CHIC to Sheep...to Simplicity Life stories of Sherrie Dewey Mennenga
Author: Jan Mennenga
Media type: Book
Donated by: Susan Mongold
Description: The story of a Christian woman's battle with cancer, and how she went from big city Los Angeles to a small sheep farm in Wyoming.
Title: Black Sheep of Windermere: A History of the St. Kilda or Hebridean Sheep
Author: David Kinsman
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: The history of the St. Kilda or Hebridean sheep, black fleeced members of an ancient, multi-colored, multi-horned breed of sheep which probably came into northern Europe over 2,000 years ago. Many references to Iceland and Icelandics.
Title: Animal Genetics Resources Information Complied by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Author:
Media type: Book
Donated by: Dr. Dyrmundsson
Description: A bulletin of essays on locally adapted livestock breeds as concerns the conservation of farm animal biodiversity. Article on Icelandic Leader Sheep.
Title: Shetland Breeds: A Collection of Essays
Author:
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: The marvelous story of the history, people and traditional breeds of the Shetland Isles. A good read with many similarities to Iceland.
Title: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop
Video #1 Beginnings - A Hat
Author: Elizabeth Zimmerman
Media type: Video
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: You learn how to wind wool, cast on, knit, purl, establish gauge, create a color graph, knit color pattern, increase, decrease, knit on double points, and end up with a hat. (It worked for me..w/handspun).
Title: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop -- Video # 2 Two Sweaters
Author: Elizabeth Zimmerman
Media type: Video
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: You learn to start, knit, and finish a seamless yoke sweater and a Norwegian style droppped-shoulder sweater.
Title: Elizabeth Zimmermann's Knitting Workshop -- Video #3 Master Classes
Author:
Media type: Video
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: Seamless shaping techniques, garter stitch possibilities, Lace knitting for shawls, Arans, Guernsey, and Fair Isle.
Title: Elizabeth Zimmerman's Knitting Workshop
Author: Elizabeth Zimmerman
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Title: The Learn To Knit A Sweater Book
Author: Jean Leinhauser
Media type: Book
Donated by: Virginia Hinchman/Kevin Weber/Black Fen Farm
Description: The print version of the Knitting Workshop, and an excellent companion to the videos.
Title: Learn To Knit Socks
Author: Edie Eckman
Media type: Book
Donated by: Virginia Hinchman/Kevin Weber/Black Fen Farm
Description: Detailed instructions for learning to knit socks. Instructions for a dozen designs, ranging from classic to fanciful.
Title: Weaving for Beginners
Author:
Media type: Book
Donated by: Virginia Hinchman/Kevin Weber/Black Fen Farm
Description: Learning to weave on the Counter Balanced loom. Similar to #47, but with more illustrations and history.
Title: Warp and Weave
Author: Robert LeClerc
Media type: Book
Donated by: Virginia Hinchman/Kevin Weber/Black Fen Farm
Description: A thorough and straight forward guide to setting up and weaving on the Jack Type and Counter Balanced loom. From the makers of Nilus/LeClerc products.
Title: Step by Step Weaving
Author: Nell Znamierowski
Media type: Book
Donated by: Virginia Hinchman/Kevin Weber/Black Fen Farm
Title: Basics of Good Sheep Management -
Author: Rural Route Videos, 120min.
Media type: vidoe
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: A management training video covering the 12 months of a shepherd's year.
Title: Drop Spindle Spinning, with Melda Montgomery
Author: Victorian Videos, 39min.
Media type: video
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: Beginner level. Learn to spin and ply on a low whorl spindle
Title: Feltmaking by Hand, The Basic Process with Anne Einset VIckery.
Author: Victorian Videos, 51min.
Media type: Video
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: A beginner level workshop in making felt garments using Scandinavian techniques.
Title: Feltmaking: Garments and Surface Design Techniques, with Anne Einset Vickery.
Author: Victorian Videos, 94 min.
Media type: Video
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: The making of a large seamless garment from a pattern is taught, along with inlay techniques and surface designs.
Title: Hands on Spinning
Author: Lee Raven
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: All you need to spin unique, high quality yarns. Includes spindle and wheel spinning, spinning wool, cotton, linen and other fibers, and using your handspun in projects.
Title: Introduction to Weaving with Deborah Chandler
Author: Victorian Videos, 57 min.
Media type: Video
Donated by: ISBONA
Descripton: A beginner level introduction to weaving.
Title: Key to Weaving
Author: Mary Black
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
Description: A classic and basic book covering the history of weaving, the mechanics of the loom, and the structure and making of many different weaves.
Title: Quality Pasture
Author: Alan Nation
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: Down to earth, low cost tactics for creating and managing high quality, high energy pasture. From the editor of "Stockman Grass Farmer".
Title: Sagas of the Icelanders, Translated
Author:
Media type: Book
Donated by: Yvonne McDonald
Description: The classic sagas describing the settling of Iceland and the discovery of America.
Title: Sheep and Goat Housing and Technical Developments in Sheep Breeding, Management and Production in Nordic Countries.
Author: Farmers Association of Iceland
Media type: Book
Donated by: Olafur Dyrmudsson
Description: A collection of papers and summaries, published by the Farmers Association of Iceland.
Title: Sheep Raiser's Manual
Author: William Kruesi
Media type: Book
Donated by: Elayne Tingey
Description: Grazing and pasture management, parasite control, housing, fencing, genetic improvement, record keeping, business management, preparing the wool clip and more. Designed to help you get the optimum production from your chosen breed and make your sheep operation profitable.
Title: Shelter and Shade
Author: John and Bunny Mortimer, forward & notes by Allan Nation
Media type: Book
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: How to use trees to create a beautiful, healthy, natural environment for livestock, which will aid in improving profitability.
Title: Spinning Wool - the Basics and Beyond with Patsy Zawistoski
Author: Victorian Videos, 90 min.
Media type: Video
Donated by: ISBONA
Description: A comprehensive beginning to intermediate lessons in how the spinning wheel works, wheel types, setup, fiber preperation, plying, and how to spin various fiber preperations.
Title: Stockman Grass Farmer Special Reports-Pamphlets:
- Intensive Grazing, and Introductory Home-study Course by Burt Smith
- Stockmanship by Bud WIlliam, (how to handle livestock in a safe and humane manner)
- Electric Fencing Basics by Thomas Cadwallader
- Basics of Controlled Rotation Grazing by R.L. Dalrymple
- From the Grass Up - Develop Your Grazing Skills
Author: Various
Media type: Pamphlets
Donated by: ISBONA
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