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Re: ProjGutenberg and finding NYPL books with both hands
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Graham, RUL)
Mon Dec 15 20:55:17 1997
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 19:22:56 -0600
From: "Peter Graham, RUL" <psgraham@rci.rutgers.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 11 Dec 1997 16:43:28 -0600
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: "Peter Graham, RUL" <psgraham@rci.rutgers.edu>
----------------------------Original message----------------------------
From: Peter Graham, Rutgers University Libraries
Project Gutenberg continues to roll its tumbrils of information forward:
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">From one of our volunteers searching various libraries for public domain
materials for Project Gutenberg--[Please note that we can only use books
published before 1923. . .due to the U.S. copyright laws. . .but that we
will be posting books in other countries that will be produced there, of
later dates, but which are public domain in those countries.]
"Had a real shocker today, although I imagine it's no surprise to you. I
spent a few hours digging, only to find that the General Circulation
Section of the Main Branch of the New York Public Library has no public
domain books!! The closest I came was one 1924 edition of the oeuvres
of some obscure Frenchman - en francais. Just out of curiosity, I
checked some of the reference section as well, w/ the same result."
We would like to find out where the pre-1924 editions are being kept."
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This will be a major surprise to users of the Research Libraries of the New
York Public Libraries (of which there is no known Main Branch). The
Gutenberg proprietor of course doesn't indicate his source, which saves the
source considerable embarassment to which MH is always impervious.
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