Clubroom Library

The club has a reasonably extensive selection of books including hiking, climbing, and skiing guidebooks as well as instructional manuals and more. Most of the newer books and/or commonly used books are now listed here, but there are many more. Drop by the clubroom to browse.

Guidelines: How to Use the VOC Library

For members

If you find a guidebook/magazine/map that you would like to borrow, locate an exec member that can sign it out for you. Quartermaster helpers are also able to do this. The deposit for each library article is $20 (no exceptions) and the borrowing period is 2 weeks. Maps should NOT be taken on trips (except the tearproof ones).

For exec members

• All library articles (includes books, guidebooks, magazines, maps, VOC journals, other journals, videos, DVD’s etc) should be checked out using the Gearmaster.
• A separate entry must be used for library articles. For example, if someone gets skis+skins+boots+1 guidebook+1 map, you need one entry for the skis+skins+boots and one entry for the guidebook + map. As with gear, if someone has borrowed two or more library articles (or a combination) and returns only some of them, mark that entry as returned and make a new entry, which should contain the books/maps they they still have and the deposit that we still hold for those books/maps.
• Make sure to write the title of the book (or other article) and if there are several editions, note the edition too.
• The deposit for each library article is $20 (no exceptions, treat like gear)
• The deposit should be deposited in the exec drawer, in the black folder, under "library". It should NOT go with the gear money.
• The "library folder" will not be used anymore. At all.
• Maps should not be taken on trips, except for the waterproof/tearproof ones (Callaghan, Garibaldi, etc). Please tell this to people every time someone borrows a map. They should photocopy the section that they need or just use it for reference.
• The default period for letting out books and maps is be 2 weeks. If people come back and ask for an extension, this can be granted ONCE (for a total of 4 weeks). If this is a high use guidebook of which we have only one, don't give an extension and consider only letting people borrow it for a week. Examples of these books are: Exploring the Coast Mountains on Skis (the new 3rd edition), Alpine Select, Scrambles, Climbers Guide to Squamish (McKlane), Freedom of the Hills (new edition), Skaha Rockclimbs, etc. If people keep on begging for extensions, kindly suggest them to invest their $20 deposit in a shiny new guidebook of their own.

Guidebooks (Recent/Popular)

Hiking and Scrambling

• 100 Hikes in the North Cascades, Ira Spring and Harvey Manning
• 103 Hikes in SW BC, Mary and David Macaree
• 109 Walks in BC's Lower Mainland, Mary and David Macaree
• A Guide to Climbing and Hiking in SW BC, Bruce Fairley
• Cascade Alpine Guide: Climbing and High Routes, Rainy Pass to Fraser River, Fred Beckey
• Colorado Scrambles, Dave Cooper
• Easy Hiking Around Vancouver, Jean Cousins
• Giant Cedars, White Sands, Juan de Fuca Marine Trail Guidebooks, Donald C. Mills
• Hiking from here to Wow: North Cascades, Cathy and Craig Copeland
• Hiking Guide to the Big Trees of SW BC, Randy Stotlmann
• Hiking Near Vancouver, Dougald MacDonald
• Hiking the Gulf Islands, Charles Kahn
• Hiking the West Coast of Vancouver Island, Tim Leadem 
• Hot Springs of Western Canada, Glenn Woodsworth (2nd Edition)
• Mountain Footsteps (Hikes in the East Kootenay of SE BC), Janice Strong (3rd Edition)
• One Day Getaways from Vancouver, Jack Christie
• Stein Valley Wilderness Guidebook (2nd Edition), Gordon White
• The Juan de Fuca Marine Trail, Matthew Payne & Adam Vasilevich
• The West Coast Trail, 8th Edition, Tim Leadem
• Where the Locals Hike in the West Kootenays, Kathy and Craig Copeland

Digitized Archives

These are not yet online, but are listed so that volunteers know which parts of this project are complete, in order to avoid duplication.

VOCJ Volume #	Year	Scanned	Pages
I	1958	Yes Duncan
II	1959	Yes Duncan
III	1960	YES Eric
IV	1961	maybe Eric
V	1962	NO	66
VI	1963	maybe Duncan
VII	1964	maybe Duncan
VIII	1965	maybe Eric
IX	1966	maybe Eric
X	1967	maybe Eric
XI	1968	maybe	116
XII	1969	maybe Duncan
XIII	1970	YES EE&IR
XIV	1971	maybe Duncan
XV	1972	YES EE&IR
XVI	1973	YES EE&IR
XVII	1974	YES EE&IR
XVIII	1975	YES EE&IR
XIX	1976	YES EE&IR
XX	1977	YES EE&IR
XXI	1978	YES EE&IR
XXII	1979	YES EE&IR
XXIII	1980	YES EE&IR
XXIV	1981	YES EE&IR
XXV	1982	YES EE&IR
XXVI	1983	maybe Duncan
XXVII	1984	maybe Duncan
XXVIII	1985	maybe Duncan
XXIX	1986	maybe Duncan
XXX	1987	YES EE&IR
XXXI	1988	NO	128
XXXII	1989	NO	124
XXXIII	1990	NO	150
XXXIV	1991	NO	160
XXXV	1992	NO	180
XXXVI	1993	NO
XXXVII	1994	NO	201
XXXVIII	1995	NO	206
XXXIX	1996	NO	174
XL	1997	NO	222
XLI	1998	NO	253
XLII	1999	NO	200
XLIII	2000	NO	301
XLIV	2001	NO	281
XLV	2002	NO	233
XLVI	2003	NO	235
XLVII	2004	NO	264
XLVIII	2005	NO	222
XLIX	2006	Yes Duncan
L	2007	Original PDFs
LI	2008	Original PDFs

Photo Collection Year	Type	Scanned
ALL	Slide	Yes
1927-49	Prints	Partial
ALL Other	Prints	NO