[further replies.]
==8==
From: "Emily Hutton" <ehutton_at_mail.colgate.edu>
Colgate has not withdrawn. Faculty still use this on at least a bi
monthly basis.
==9==
We spent years dealing with letters and concerns from our Industrial
History/ History of Technology faculty regarding the Mansells. They
felt the set was the only reliable source to track down older, rarer
titles. Five years ago, we ran out of space and moved the set into a
locked storage area, with promises that the key was readily available
for faculty to peruse the set as needed. The door was never re-opened.
Two years ago, the storage space was needed for another purpose. The
same faculty suggested we discard the Mansells to shift things around
and create the space they desired.
We are primarily a science and engineering university. We've not
experienced any regret since the Mansells left the building. Any
monographic title whose existence we've needed to verify for the
history faculty has been found through online sources.
Ellen Seidel
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Ellen Seidel
Head, Collection Management
J. Robert Van Pelt Library
Michigan Technological University
eseidel_at_mtu.edu
==10==
Cal State San Marcos dumped it as part of a pre-move housecleaning (we
couldn't find anyone on the staff who remembered using it here.)
Mark
==11==
From:
"Gibbons, Dennis" <D.Gibbons_at_tcu.edu>
Texas Christian University Library discarded our volumes of Mansell
about two years ago. The university has a contract with a paper
recycling company that can handle hardback books, and they took them.
The most use we got out of Mansell in the last few years was one night
when students used them to build a fort in the lobbey of the library.
--Dennis
Dennis Gibbons, Collection Development Librarian
Texas Christian University
TCU Box 298400
Fort Worth, TX 76129
==12==
We have pre-'56 but not '56-'67. We got Mansell free from Missouri
Southern State College, and they obtained it from Truman State
(formerly NE Missouri State). We keep it on the bottom shelves in Ref,
which we wouldn't use anyway. We love Mansell because:
1) not every work or even every author is in OCLC "by a long shot," to
quote our cataloguer;
2) we're cataloguing rare books;
3) I've found Mansell much better than FirstSearch (most people's mode
around here for using OCLC) in easily looking for citations of, and
information about, such things as the first published Hebrew Bibles in
the decade prior to 1525;
4) for certain uniform titles, Mansell may be more convenient for
various people;
5) for retrospective examination (e.g., of collected works or diverse
translations for someone like Luther), Mansell may be much more
convenient, owing to mode of display.
Jim
James C. Pakala <mailto:jpakala_at_covenantseminary.edu>
Library Director Phone: 314-434-4044 x140; Fax 314-434-4819
Covenant Theological Seminary
12330 Conway Road; St. Louis, MO 63141-8697
==13==
Although we didn't have Mansell, we had all the different sets of LC
Printed Cards and ditched them about two years ago. Almost as many
volumes and never touched for years and years.
Sue
Sue Beidler
Snowden Library
Lycoming College
700 College Place
Williamsport PA 17701
==14==
We are keeping NUC Pre-56 at Duke U.
Ginny
Received on Sat Apr 24 2004 - 03:03:03 EDT