TO: Chris Wren
Madison, Wisconsin
cgwren@acm.org
Chris, a while back one of my colleagues shared your posting on LAW-LIB
asking about Internet book dealers. The following was recently posted on
the EXLIBRIS listserv and may be of interest. I don't subscribe to
LAW-LIB, so feel free to share it with them.
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Mike Widener, Archivist/Rare Books Librarian
Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin
Internet: LDAF633@MCL.CC.UTEXAS.EDU
>Date: Fri, 22 Apr 1994 09:33:42 EDT
>From: "John T Zubal, U.S.B.E." <johnz45897@AOL.COM>
>Subject: swap and shop
>
>USBE has created an e-mail group or list which we're informally naming "Swap
>& Shop." All libraries and individuals who are interested in learning about
>collections, and individual publications that are available on a trade or
>buy/sell basis are invited to send their e-mail addresses to USBE which, in
>turn, will disseminate such information on a more or less regular basis. The
>goal is to find new homes for publications that are not needed by their
>current owners. At present we do not anticipate charging for this service.
>
>Here's a sample of what you will receive from USBE:
>
>"We have an inquiry for a set of National Union Catalogue (Mansell) and
>similar catalogues (e.g. Paris. Bibliotheque Nationale. Catalogue Generale
>des Livres Impremies; Bibliografia nazionale italiana, etc.). Please let us
>know if you have such for sale or trade or donation."
>
>The group currently consists in addresses we have gathered over the past
>year. If you receive messages from USBE and wish to be removed from the
>group, please let us know and we will delete your address. On the other hand,
>if you have friends, colleagues, or associates who may wish to participate in
>Swap and Shop, please have them contact us.
>
>If you have information to post, just send it to USBE's current e-mail
>address which is:
>
>JohnZ45897@aol.com
>
>NB: The list will be edited, chiefly because we don't want it to become
>overloaded with offers to sell or trade pedestrian materials. We monitored
>several other similar efforts and found they devoted valuable space, time,
>and energy to "carrying coals to Newcastle." Such can be the death knell for
>such a list.
>
>Having created this group, USBE will no longer post commercial notices to Ex
>Libris; we thank Peter Graham and ExLibris for accomodating us over the past
>five or six months. We will, of course, continue to subscribe to ExLibris.
>
>I will be out of the office from April 24 to about May 14, 1994. During that
>time, Swap and Shop probably won't be very active but I do hope that there
>will be an accumulation of messages for us to work thru soon after I return
>to work.
>
>john
>usbe
>2969 west 25th st
>cleveland, oh 44113
>
>phone 216 241 6960
>fax 216 241 6966
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