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 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jazz is freedom. - T. Monk http://www.panix.com/~cassidy