RCAA ON-LINE LIBRARY
Portal Page
Welcome to the portal to our on-line library. The library contains a large number of documents related to Sea-Tac Expansion, so we have provided several tools to help you get around and to download documents, explained below.
The on-line library is only part of the full RCAA library. For a listing of hard-copy documents at our office, see our Background-- Shelf List, and contact librarian@rcaanews.org. We regularly post new documents and list them on our What's the Latest Page.
For contacts with other airport or issue groups, see our Links page.
How to Use the Library
Most of the files in our library are in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. They are marked [acrobat 00KB]. This tells you it is an Acrobat file and the KB indicates how big the file is. If a file is marked [Acrobat version], it means that there is both a webpage version and an Acrobat version of that document. If the document is not on our website, but on another website, it is marked [link]. Once you jump to that website, you will need to use your BACK key to return to our website.
Menu bar: Library documents are organized by issue. On the upper left corner of each page is a menu of issues. Click on the + next to the issue category to open up the sub categories. Then click on a subcategory to go to that page of the the library site. (If you cannot see the menu bar, click here and follow their instructions to update your Flash player. It's free and only takes a couple of minutes. We recommend you keep your Flash player up-to-date, because the player is used widely on the internet. Click on the button at the top of the page every so often to be sure you have the latest version.) If you cannot use Flash or are using a reader, you can choose the text-only version by clicking on the link at the top right corner of the page.
Acrobat files: We try as much as possible to make all documents in our library available in Adobe Acrobat ( .pdf version) because acrobat files are easy to download, read, and print correctly. ("Acrobat file" and ".pdf" mean the same thing. pdf stands for "Portable Document Format". .pdf files are created using a program called Adobe Acrobat.) You must have the free Adobe Reader in order to read Acrobat files. We recommend Version 6 or later because the search tools are so much better, and you can use it to fill out forms.
If you don't have the Adobe Reader 6 (or don't know what you have), click here to download the latest version for free. Save the file on your desktop or some other convenient location, then double-click on it to install it on your computer.
Once you have the Reader installed, a special toolbar will appear below the usual toolbars on your internet browser any time you open an Acrobat (.pdf) document. We made a copy of an Acrobat toolbar, so you can see what it looks like.
When you are actually viewing an Acrobat document and want to save the Acrobat file you are reading on your computer, click the Acrobat save button (see button we marked in yellow).
The other buttons
on the Acrobat toolbar will allow you to search for
keywords
, open
up bookmarks (a clickable table of contents) 
,
go to the first page 
,
forward or back a page 
,
go to document end 
,
zoom in or out 
,
and draw, highlight areas or spell check document 
.
In Adobe Reader 6, you can use the search tool to
search not only for keywords in the document you are viewing, but
also in all pdf documents on the website, and, indeed, pdf documents
around the internet.
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