What is the Phoenix Library?
Information for the Future

In 1981, the Phoenix Foundation was chartered as a non-profit corporation in Tennessee, with the mission of providing the American people with the information they would need to survive and, hopefully, thrive in the coming millennium.

That mission led, first, to a printed newsletter, The Omega Report, that was circulated around the world, even though we had virtually no operating budget.

From there came The Omega Report television show, cablecast to over 1.3 million homes in Pennsylvania, Kentucky and Tennessee.

As the legend of the Phoenix Foundation, fed by such popular TV shows as MacGyver, grew, so did the demand for the unique information we provided - but our budget did not allow us to meet those demands either in print or on video. The weekly production of an hour-long documentary was staggering.

Today, however, the Internet allows us to offer information in many forms - print, audio and video - at a much lower cost, making it available to the entire world ... at least until the global corporations commercialize the Internet for their own exclusive use and control.

As long as information yearns to be free and that freedom is a reality, the Phoenix Foundation will continue to fulfill its mission.

Because we are involved in many areas of research, the Phoenix Library - affectionately known as Alexandria II (after the ancient and vast but now-destroyed libraries of Alexandria, Egypt) - is the vehicle by which the Phoenix Foundation archives will be made available.

The economic realities dictate that we come up with a practical business model that will allow us to meet our basic expenses. To do that, we have created two or more levels of access to our information:

• The first access level is free membership in Alexandria II, which allows you to access all of the free information we have available.
• The second access level is out Silver Membership in Alexandria II, which provides paid members with a higher level of access and remarkable discounts on materials to which we have purchased reprint and/or resell rights.

But even if you have only a Free Membership, you can still purchase any material available in our library.

Because we currently rely on volunteer assistance only, with one part-time paid employee, our library will initially have only a small offering - but it will grow, as we have accumulated tens of thousands of works we will be adding to the library.

Many of our works are downloadable, even to those with dial-up connections - but some, especially some of our original works, are so large they must be shipped on a CD or, in some cases, a DVD or multiple CDs. For these, we must charge a modest production charge, which varies according to the size of the product.