southpaw@altavista.net wrote:
> The books are now at the State University of New
York at Buffalo's
> Lockwood Library. Five years after Kelley donated
them to his alma
> mater, librarians have catalogued each volume. It's
the first time many
> of the cheesy sci-fi, romance and detective novels
from decades past
> have found a place in the National Bibliographic
Database, let alone a
> permanent spot on a shelf.
>
> ''Libraries were kind of snobby,'' says Lockwood's
director, Judith
> Adams-Volpe.
I'm frankly shocked at this statement. There are a number of
academic libraries with large popular culture collections,
and some of these libraries have been around for 30 years or
more. If the books haven't been found in any national
database, it's probably because nobody donated them to the
libraries, not because the libraries refused to take
them.
Libraries were snobby, yes--50 years ago. Things today are
much, much different.
jess
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