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Re: college archivists - a question



Please reply to the list on this question.  I would be interested in
hearing responses.

Many thanks -- Amy Cooper

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Assistant Professor Amy Cooper
Archivist/Special Collections Librarian
I. D. Weeks Library
The University of South Dakota

Phone: 605-677-8867     E-Mail: alcooper@usd.edu

----- Original Message -----
From: "Nelson, Jamie" <alijn@AUGUSTANA.EDU>
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2001 1:22 pm
Subject: college archivists - a question

> (apologies for cross-postings)
>
> A question for my colleagues in small college archives:
>
> We have materials in the general collection of the library that were
> acquired during the normal growth and daily life of a college library.
> However, we occasionally have requests from faculty to move
> materials into
> Special Collections that aren't particularly rare but that they
> feel should
> be "protected."  In the latest case, an English professor would
> like to see
> selected bound volumes of "The Dial" and "Poetry" from the 1910s
> and 1920s
> removed to Special Collections because he feels the first
> printings of Ezra
> Pound and T.S. Eliot in journals are akin to first editions.
>
> These materials are not within the scope of our collection in Special
> Collections.  We have severe space problems down here, and there
> are access
> issues as well with breaking a serial run and moving some volumes
> into the
> closed stacks.  Moreover, I do not want to set a precedent that we
> (SpecialCollections) accept anything in the general collection
> that appears to be
> "old."  Plenty of our materials are "old" - the College has been
> around for
> 140 years.
>
> However, I sense that I will be charged as a poor custodian of such
> materials if I do not respond to his request.
>
> How have others handled such materials in their general
> collections?  Any
> tips for responding to faculty about such requests?
>
> Thank you for your input.
>
> Jamie Nelson
>
> Jamie Nelson
> Special Collections Librarian
> Augustana College
> Rock Island, Illinois
>
>
>

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