Hi, Lorine -- I'm thinking of all the old books my mother can no longer get through interlibrary loan. In the 1940s she conducted a lot of her research that way. But the books are now so rare and fragile that libraries have decided not to send them around. They might get damaged or stolen. And she has had no success through rare-book stores. This is all very ironic, because I support *not copying or plagiarizing.* I just wrote an e-mail to a name collector ("19,000 and still counting!") who is passing off my mother's hard work as his own, and I myself have a publication out of print that has been freely copied in its entirety by people I consider thieves. (The "snipping" below creates a misleading impression, as if I would begrudge the effort to find a book that's still under copyright.) Alexandra On Sat, 29 Jan 2000 07:56:18 -0500 "Lorine McGinnis Schulze" <[email protected]> writes: > [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > > > book that's still under copyright. Is a person expected to hunt > all over > > through interlibrary loan? > > Actually any good librarian will do the hunting on your behalf. > > Surely you don't begrudge a few moments to ask? > > As Paula Wiegand pointed out, you can also try bookstores for an > out of print book. You can also put the word out on the Internet > that > you're looking for it. > > > > Lorine McGinnis Schulze > [email protected] > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > The Olive Tree Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ > The Canadian Military Heritage Project > http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmil/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~