A successful fundraising campaign for a museum completed in 2012 which rewarded donors with various items including photographs ($25), bumper stickers ($33), t-shirts ($50), baseball caps ($100), models ($200), comic books ($333), autographed posters ($1000) and event tickets ($2500).
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/let-s-build-a-goddamn-tesla-museum--5

An unpublished history of Dauphin Island in the Jack D.L. Holmes papers at BAMA  http://acumen.lib.ua.edu/w0003_0000001

According to this entry, BAMA has the guide to the 29 microfilms Jack D.L. Holmes obtained from the Archivo de Las Indias in Seville  http://eds.b.ebscohost.com/eds/detail?vid=2&sid=f669c7cd-e5ae-47dc-bccd-260d6a60994b%40sessionmgr111&hid=105&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWRzLWxpdmUmc2NvcGU9c2l0ZQ%3d%3d#db=cat00456a&AN=ua.682458


Excellent American observations concerning the Mobile Bay channel from 1814 http://books.google.com/books?id=gHEBAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA60&lpg=PA60&dq=%22john+spencer+bassett%22+%22fort+bowyer%22&source=bl&ots=A635scLTQp&sig=nobA6w3KNNsQm7l6gsw_1T5uoiM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OY3SU6nxKM-NyASXm4I4&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22john%20spencer%20bassett%22%20%22fort%20bowyer%22&f=false

This is an example of a book that we need to have digitized http://books.google.com/books/about/Correspondence_of_Andrew_Jackson_May_1_1.html?id=93olAQAAMAAJ

Guide to Community Fund Raising https://www.indiegogo.com/learn-how-to-raise-money-for-a-campaign

Peter Brannon's COLONIAL MOBILE online  https://archive.org/stream/colonialmobilehi00hami/colonialmobilehi00hami_djvu.txt

A superb guide for cataloging collections for small museums
http://www.mavic.asn.au/assets/Small_Museums_Cataloguing_Manual_4th.pdf