Klarinet Archive - Posting 000084.txt from 2008/06

From: Glenn Kantor <klarinet@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Old Encyclopedias (Completely OT)
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:40:08 -0400

Write the milkman a note on your typewriter, or call him on your rotary
phone, to pick it up and leave it at the closest phone booth.

He can listen to his 8 track tapes during the trip.

Glenn B Kantor (GBK)

----- Original Message -----
From: "Karl Krelove" <karlkrelove@-----.net>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 5:25 PM
Subject: [kl] Old Encyclopedias (Completely OT)

>I have a 20-year-old set of Funk & Wagnall's Encyclopedia taking up shelf
> space in my office. It isn't of interest to any librarian I've asked - too
> old and F&W wasn't a high-quality reference even when it was new (they
> were
> sold a volume per week at the local supermarket). Newer CD-ROM- and
> online-based resources make anything this old, whether it once was good or
> not, pretty much useless to a modern public or school library. Does anyone
> have any knowledge of any organization that can make use of something like
> this? I've heard that there are international charities that collect old
> books and donate them to libraries and schools in developing countries
> that
> don't have the resources we take for granted, but no one who has mentioned
> this to me has a specific organization name to suggest.
>
> It seems somehow awkward to just put them out for the next curbside trash
> pickup, but I badly need the shelf space for other things.
>
> TIA,
>
> Karl
>
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