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Re: collection offer



Bill - thank you for the information.

----- Original Message -----
From: Jones, Bill (MLIB) <BJONES2@CSUCHICO.EDU>
To: <ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 5:50 PM
Subject: Re: collection offer


> The Napa Valley is near UC, Davis or CSU, Sacramento but they may not be
> interested in
> "round the world" material.  Maybe Getty? or Corbis (owned by Microsoft)?
> They seem to be
> cornering the market in images.
>
> Bill Jones
> Special Collections
> CSU, Chico
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Roy Webb [SMTP:rwebb@LIBRARY.UTAH.EDU]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 2:54 AM
> > To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Subject:      collection offer
> >
> > [cross-posted to ARCHIVES and PHOTOHST, so apologies in
> > advance]
> >
> > I recently received a letter from someone offering us a collection as
> > follows:
> >
> > "From 1966-1993 my parents traveled the world, taking 300,000+
> > slides, which they narrowed own to 25,386, and organized into 66
> > slide shows with narration and music.  My mother, who lives in
> > Napa Valley, is now preparing to move into a nursing home, and we
> > need to find a new home for 266 carousels, 133 tapes, [and] 893
> > pages of script.  [snip]  I have an index of the contents of the 66
> > shows."
> >
> > I wrote to the email address given in the letter and learned the
> > following in reply:
> >
> > "The other slides were tossed as they created the shows...actually
> > 275,000 is an estimate (thank goodness I didn't have to count
> > them!). They were ruthless in their selection of slides to keep.
> >
> > I was searching the web for places that might be interested in the
> > slides. The Univ. of Utah was one of the places, as was UC
> > Riverside and the Carpenter center at Harvard.  We are a pretty
> > ecumenical family, with no direct link, other than a cousin, to the
> > Mormons.
> >
> > It hadn't occurred to me that we might actually sell the collection.  I
> > was thinking of it as a tax-write-off for my mother.  If donated, I
> > would want the University to have the collection packed up and
> > shipped off so that we don't have to incur either the work or the
> > cost."
> >
> > After thinking and talking it over with my staff, I can't really justify
> > the time and money and resources that giving this collection the
> > treatment it deserves would entail, given that it doesn't fit in any
> > way into our collection development policies.  It sounds like a very
> > neat bunch of stuff and in the best of all possible worlds I'd love to
> > have it; but given the current funding climate with the University of
> > Utah and the Utah Legislature (if the football team would only throw
> > that BYU game a couple of years in a row!), I think I have to say no
> > to this.
> >
> > So here's the question, after this long-winded entry: is there
> > anyone out there in Archivy who would be interested in this?  Are
> > there "around-the-world" repositories?  We actually have a couple
> > of collections like this; but 80 magic lantern slides or a couple
> > dozen 16mm films are one thing; 25,000+ slides are quite another.
> >
> > So if you are interested, do this: contact me, and I'll forward your
> > messages to the donor, and you and she can take it from there.
> >
> >
> > Roy Webb, C.A.
> > Multimedia Archivist
> > Special Collections
> > J. Willard Marriott Library
> > 295 South 1500 East
> > University of Utah
> > Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
> > (801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
> > rwebb@library.utah.edu
> >
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