Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 14:13:50 -0600
From: Carol Green <carol.green@usm.edu>
Subject: Re: Phone Books - Anyone checking them in? -- Peter Washkevich

At 11:02 AM 3/10/2003 -0500, you wrote:

 >Are there any libraries out there that are checking in paper copies of
 >local phone books, and phone books for surrounding communities?
 >
 >Peter Washkevich
 >Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
 >Daytona Beach, FL

Peter:

Our library houses several decades of Mississippi phone books in the
Mississippiana Collection.  For the current phone books, I'm creating
brief records which are shadowed to the public and are mainly used to
track receipt and payment.  Our goal is to do original records for the
collection in OCLC, and get them in our system with holdings, etc.  Of
course there are many variations through the years so it will take some
time to do that.

Carol

Carol D. Green
Serials Librarian, Associate Professor
The University of Southern Mississippi
USM Libraries
Box 5053
Hattiesburg, MS  39406-5053
(601) 266-4476  (601) 266-6033 fax
Carol.Green@usm.edu