From: kreinbringm_at_ada.org.
> [PLEASE REPLY DIRECTLY TO MARY KREINBRING AT ADA, NOT TO THE LIST ADDRESS]
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> The American Dental Association Library is seeking older issues of JADA
> (Journal of the American Dental Association) for a digitization project
> that will result in free web access to all back issues.
>
> The ADA Publishing Division is planning to put the JADA archives online
> from 1913 up through 1994. This will create a permanent historical
> record accessible to all. (From 1995 on is already freely available
> online minus the latest 12 months.) However, our Publishing area has
> gaps in their pre-1950 collection. The ADA Library was able to supply
> some years from our excess volumes, but we want to maintain copies in
> the original print (as the logical library of last resort), so we
> offered to help them find some other copies that might be sacrificed for
> DESTRUCTIVE scanning. The volumes will NOT be returned.
>
> We're hoping that some health science institutions who have extra copies
> or are just eager to expand electronic resources in dentistry might
> consider donating volumes to this effort. Would you be willing to part
> with the following volumes for the greater good? If so, ADA Publishing
> would pay for the shipping of course. You'd be able to access it all
> online in the future. And then there's all the shelves that this would
> free up for other uses. Either bound volumes or single issues are
> welcome.
>
> *****NOTE: WE ARE ONLY SEEKING VOLUMES THAT HAVE INTACT TABLES OF
> CONTENTS.*****
> We have previously rec'd a set from a very generous institution, but as
> was often the norm in earlier years, most of the covers (containing the
> TOCs) were removed before binding. Most volumes have a "Contents of
> Volume V, etc." page which appears at the beginning of each issue, but
> which is really an INDEX with subject groupings and names that was
> issued at the end of the year, not a TOC for individual issues in page
> order.
>
> Though we may need to use these issues as they are, we are making one
> more attempt to find volumes with TOCs (usually the original covers)
> intact. This would make the conversion process much easier for our
> Publishing staff and for the digitization vendor and it would allow us
> to provide these resources as they originally appeared.
>
> We would appreciate your consideration of this donation and a review to
> see which volumes you have that might retain the TOCs. You may reply to
> me at kreinbringm_at_ada.org <mailto:kreinbringm_at_ada.org> .
>
> WE ASK WILLING DONORS TO RESPOND BY FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22.
>
> The volumes we are seeking are:
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> Journal of the National Dental Association (old title): 1915, 1916,
> 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920 (Jan-June), 1921, 1922 (Jan-July)
>
> Journal of the American Dental Association: 1922 (Aug-Dec), 1923, 1924,
> 1925, 1927, 1928, 1929, 1930, 1931, 1932, 1933, 1934, 1935 (Jan-June),
> 1936, 1937. 1938, 1942, 1943.
>
> Either way, thanks again for considering our request.
>
> Mary Kreinbring
> Director, Department of Library Services
> American Dental Association
> 211 E. Chicago Ave., 6th FL
> Chicago, IL 60611-2678
> Phone: 312-440-2642
> Fax: 312-440-2774
> kreinbringm_at_ada.org <mailto:kreinbringm_at_ada.org>
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Received on Thu Feb 14 2008 - 02:51:19 EST