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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 13:11:18 -0500
From: "Urbanik, Elizabeth" <EUrbanik@library.msstate.edu>
Subject: RE: What do you do with old microfilm readers?

Maybe the library world can come up with something like Junkyard Wars for
dead library equipment....

Elizabeth Urbanik, Assistant Professor
Serials Cataloger
Mississippi State University
662-325-7665
eurbanik@library.msstate.edu

"Frugality for the Public is a rare virtue, but when the public Service must
suffer by it, it degenerates into a Vice" -- William Byrd II

-----Original Message-----
From: Kopycinski, Doreen [mailto:dkopycinski@URSINUS.EDU]
Sent: Friday, June 06, 2003 12:02 PM
To: SERIALST@LIST.UVM.EDU
Subject: What do you do with old microfilm readers?

Greetings,

We have four old Dukane MDP readers (no print function) which we no longer
need.  Only one seems to be working properly (the other three, although they
seem to be in good shape, just won't turn on (don't know what's wrong with
them-they've been like that since I've been here (2 years)).

Does anyone have suggestions for what to do with these machines?  I've
offered them to our local consortium with no positive results.  I don't want
to see these go into the dumpster (is that what it will come down to?)-what
have others done with their old machines?

I've checked the SERIALST archives and only found one suggestion (someone
had donated theirs to a special library just last year).

Thank you,
Doreen Kopycinski

Doreen Kopycinski, MLS
Technical Services Librarian
Myrin Library ~ Ursinus College
601 East Main Street
Collegeville, PA  19426-1000
 <mailto:dkopycinski@ursinus.edu> dkopycinski@ursinus.edu
http://myrin.ursinus.edu <http://myrin.ursinus.edu/>

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Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2003 14:22:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pamela Sue Bruner <pbruner@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: What do you do with old microfilm readers?

We sold our old reader/printer, dirt cheap, by posting an ad on the state
library association listserve (Michigan Library Association).

We didn't make much money, but smaller libraries were able to get
equipment they could not otherwise afford.

Shipping was the biggest concern of the buyers, but since we advertised
through a Michigan organization, most of the buyers were able to pick up
the machine themselves.

Pamela S. Bruner                        telephone: (734) 763-2299
Head of Serials/Microforms Services     e-mail:  pbruner@umich.edu
Harlan Hatcher Graduate Library
University of Michigan