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Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1998 10:04:50 -0600
From: Anne Frohlich <frohlich@ACC.MCNEESE.EDU>
Subject: Re: Libraries purchased and moved? (Joe Rose)

When I was the librarian at William Tyndale College near Detroit we
purchased a 50,000 volume library from a defunct local college.

We had the student body help us box it up in call # order.  We stored it in
a warehouse and gradually integrated it with our collection (we also got
the card catalog)

It was LC, we were Dewey, so we also reclassified our collection.  For
choosing material I chose first subjects that were relevant to our
curriculum and in which we were weak.  I used Books for College Libraries
extensively.  We probably kept half of the collection, primarily humanities
and  social sciences.  This all took ten years because our staff was limited.

I'd be glad to give you advice.  You are in for lots of exciting challenges.

>Subject: Libraries purchased and moved?
>
>Joe Rose here,
>
>My library has recently purchased the collection of a university that
>had to file bankruptcy.  We are now working through a number of issues
>-- moving, storing, assessing, integrating, etc.  I was wondering if
>anyone on the list could put me in contact with someone else who has
>been involved in:
>
>1. Purchasing the contents of another library -- or even purchasing a
>sizeable portion of one.
>
>2. Moving a collection over a long distance, not just from one building
>to another on the same campus.
>
>3. Integrating or processing the newly acquired collection.
>
>Thanks in advance for ANY help or thoughts.
>
>Joe Rose
>Florida College
>rosej@flcoll.edu
>4buds@gte.net
>
>
Anne Frohlich, Serials Librarian        Phone:318-475-5741
McNeese State University                Fax:318-475-5719
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