Sent by List Administrator > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <A HREF="mailto:pamcooper@bellsouth.net">Pam Cooper</A> > To: <A HREF="mailto:floridatoday@yahoogroups.com">Floriday Today</A> > Sent: Saturday, March 01, 2003 11:11 PM > Subject: [floridatoday] State Library - No Problem ????? > > > I have been hearing that the Georgia lists and others think that the State > Library situation is no longer a problem. Recently, I was reminded by > Barratt Wilkins of a situation that happened about 15 years ago. > > Back in the 1980’s, the State Library gave the genealogy collection to the > State Archives and there was a lot of flap about that. The State Library > gave the Archives mostly family history and genealogy specific materials. >  Today, we can be grateful that most of them are now safe, temporarily (at > least for a year.) However, in order to compromise and make available to > genealogists the thousands of state, county and city history materials, the > State Library decided to keep them in their circulating collection. This is > now a part of the collection going to Nova University. Other items that you > can check out are Florida and Federal documents as long as there are two > other copies. > > For researchers of southeastern history, I have found in the State > Library catalog over 6300 books on local and genealogical history of six of > the southern states, by using the subject heading “[state] history.” > HOWEVER, many of them ARE located in the State Archives, but many are in > the circulating collection. Titles listed below are in circulation. > > Georgia 625 > "History of John [Virginia] Smith and his descendants in connection with > the tobacco industry in Gadsden County, Florida and Decatur County, > Georgia" [microform] > "Polk County, Georgia  " > Alabama 297 > "The administration of John Quinlan : second Bishop of Mobile, 1859-1883" > Mississippi 283 > "Country churchyards " > "Southern women and their families in the 19th century, papers and > diaries." [microform] > South Carolina 391 > "Lancaster County and the Great War, South Carolina " > North Carolina 539 > "Ashe County's Civil War : community and society in the Appalachian South " > Florida 3979 > > This subject heading cannot find every book. Therefore, an estimate of how > many books that can be circulated to researchers in Florida and other > states can be a lot higher, especially if you include all the local history > books from other states in New England and the Midwest. I found these for > New Jersey in the State Library: > Root & branch : African Americans in New York and east Jersey, 1613-1863 > Documents relating to the colonial history of the state of New Jersey, > [1631-1776] >   > If you visit the State Library, and peruse by dewey decimal number in the > 900's, I am sure that you will find a very extensive collection of books > that can be checked out with a State Library card free to all Florida > residents and is available on ILL for anyone in the U.S. But do not > overlook other areas in the library. >   > It is not my intention to get people upset about the books again, but it is > necessary that everyone realize this collection is valuable. And, taking it > away is like pulling the cornerstone and letting it all fall down slowly. > The whole DLIS and the Archives are both in an unstable situation and will > be for years to come if we don't have an amendment in the constitution to > protect the library and archives forever. >   > You may forward this to other lists if you so wish. >   > Pam > > > Pam Cooper > FGS/FSGS 2003 Conference Co-Chair < <A HREF="http://www.fgs.org/">http://www.fgs.org</A> > > President, Florida State Genealogical Society < <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb/">http://www.rootsweb</A> > com/~flsgs/ > > Chair, Librarians Serving Genealogists < <A HREF="http://www.cas.usf/">http://www.cas.usf</A> > edu/lis/genealib/ > > P. O. Box 7066 > Vero Beach, FL 32961-7066 > >