It's been a few days since I have checked into this site and a number of questions have built up. I will see what I can do to answer them.

Joe Offer - Sing Out's staff is rather limited, so the amount of help available by telephone varies. Whenever possible, staff tries to service member requests in the manner of a research librarian. What is principally there is a great number of "folk music" books and recordings (thousands of them). We retain a copy of everything sent to us for review over the years, so we have many hard to find items. Indexing is not all that it should be but we are working to improve it. If we had enough memberships, we could support a librarian with computer skills who could do all of this right. We may be starting a fund-raising campaign for this specific purpose if we thought it would be successful. As it is, it is now somewhat catch-as-catch can and it is best if you can get to Bethlehem, Pa. to use it in person.

As to Rise Up Singing, it is true that we are working on a "second volume" and are in the process of obtaining clearances. This is a very big job, since we are presently working with a list of about 1200 songs. We are doing this as quickly as we can since there seems to be an unmet demand for the new book. I cannot give you an estimated publication date, however. Once we publish the improved version of Rise Up Singing itself, which should be soon, the "second volume" will be our highest publishing priority.

I have more to write on this, but a client calls. I will return.