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-Please forward to Berthe Gaines BPL Board: Finding Guides
- Subject: -Please forward to Berthe Gaines BPL Board: Finding Guides
- From: Don Saklad <dsaklad@GNU.ORG>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 09:21:58 -0400
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- Comments: To: Please forward to Berthe Gaines BPL Board <jmcglone@bpl.org>, Massachusetts Library Commissioner <arnold@reluctant.com>, Mary Beth Dunhouse Research Library Office Regional and Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse City of Boston Public Library Departments <mbdunhouse@bpl.org>, Gunars Rutkovskis Resources <grutkov@bpl.org>, Bernie Margolis BPL President <bmargolis@bpl.org>
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-Please forward to Berthe' Gaines
BPL Board c/o [ jmcglone@bpl.org ]
Mary Beth Dunhouse Special Collections
Gunars Rutkovskis Resources grutkov@bpl.org
Bernie Margolis BPL President bmargolis@bpl.org
Regional and Massachusetts Library of Last Recourse
City of Boston Public Library Departments
John Arnold, Massachusetts Library Commissioner
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dsaklad@gnu.org
Thank you for your interest Mary Beth Dunhouse!
With respect to the guides in the BPL listing:
"Finding Guides Available"
a. How many exemplars are there of each
1. "General repository guide"
2. "Guide to monographic collection"
3. "Guides for manuscript collection"
4. "Guides for archives' records groups"
5. "Guide to institutional microfilm holdings"
b. How many copies are there of each?...
c. How many copies of each guide are there for
BPL curatorial staff?...
d. How many copies are there of each guide for other
research libraries around the country?...
e. How many copies are there of each guide for
BPL executive officers?...
f. What are the descriptions for each guide's format
1. including sizes,
2. pages and
3. type of bindings, stapled, glue, etc.?...
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General repository guide
Guide to monographic collection
Guides for manuscript collection
Guides for archives' records groups
Guide to institutional microfilm holdings
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