There are two main forms of information in the OMS libary. Books and e-books. See below for details.
The OMS Library consists of 1064 books, videos, manuscripts, etc., some very rare, dealing with magic, juggling, ventriloquism, and the allied arts.
The OMS e-books are books and lecture notes written by members of the OMS and are in downloadable PDF format.
The library is at Denny and Ann Rourke's, 1633 South 154th Street.
We are in the progress of making a listing of our library contents available online for everyone to view. To access this listing, please visit the library
If you'd like to review a book from the OMS Library, you can do so from within the OMS library screens
If you would like to request a book from the OMS library, you will need to request the books via the OMS library functions..
E-lectures have been written by OMS members to help suppliment material that they lectured on during one of our monthly meetings.
In every case, the lectures are password protected, so if you want to download an e-lecture, you will need to email the webmaster to get the password.
The easiest way to save these files are to use the right-mouse (Windows) "save-as" option and save the files to your hard drive. Then, you can unzip any of the zipped files, and simply double-click on any of the PDF files..
E-videos are demonstrations of how-to-do things. What the purpose of the video is (ie. a trick) is NOT shown. So, the moves/videos may be out of order,etc. This keeps the civilians/muggles from seeing how/what we do.
In every case, the videos are PRIVATE, which means you MUST know the video address to find it. Google, search, etc. will NOT find it.