28 May
2006
28 May
'06
2:48 a.m.
Bob Bradlee wrote:
I was told by two libaries that most of the collection
would be thrown out durring the sorting and the rest
would most
likely go in a year or two.
The other Bob
Most librarians are assassins. The sad fact is that in most places,
where they are funded by the local government, they are only open
now because it would be politically embarrasing not to have them,
and only stock titles useful for the local schools to be able to train
students to use libraries.
I won't make this long, but the bottom line is that you have to find
some collector, or a museum which has an endowment to hold on
to collections, or they will be broken up. Only a few libraries exist
outside of universities that have anything of interest to me anymore,
or to most here, and most of them do not acquire books that are
not antiquarian.
For what it's worth, JPL got rid of a huge amount of incredible
books and documentation over the last 15 years, just to name
one place that produces fantastic potential acquisitions around
the area I am located in.
Jim