At 2:39 PM -0500 10/31/01, Tom Perrin wrote:

>The fact also remains that few librarians are taught anything at all in
>library school about rare books, special collections or book
>preservation.  Books are are too often considered little more than
>commodities by library staffers. Yet to historians, genealogists,
>collectors and the like, these same books have significant monetary and
>cultural value despite being "ex-lib".  Were it not for collectors
>assigning a monetary value to these items, they could very well
>disappear from our cultural heritage for all  time.

This doesnt fit the description of librarians I have contact with; maybe
NYC is different from the rest of the state.

m

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