Subj: [FLORIDA] State Library  Date: 3/8/03 9:21:53 AM Eastern Standard Time From: <A HREF="mailto:pamcooper@bellsouth.net">pamcooper@bellsouth.net</A> To: <A HREF="mailto:FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com">FLORIDA-L@rootsweb.com</A> Sent from the Internet (Details) <A HREF="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-loclibrary08030803mar08,0,4075963.story?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines">OrlandoSentinel.com: State News</A> http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/state/orl-loclibrary08030803mar08,0, 4075963.story?coll=orl%2Dhome%2Dheadlines Orlando Sentinel: Summarized: Books CANNOT be checked out by anyone outside of Broward county Books will NOT be available for a year or more Books can be thrown away after Nova receives them. Parking is NOT free at Nova. (It is in Tallahassee) Outside residents are not treated the same as students, which I find is normal in many academic school libraries that I have researched in throughout the U.S. Consider using these points when you contact your legislators. 1. Nova can throw out any books they don't want upon receipt and will continue to get paid $5 million until 2007. (In the contract.) 2. Academic libraries do not want (older) fiction books either. Only 8% fiction are in the State library and they are located in one small area of the R.A. Gray building. This collection includes Florida fiction authors. There are THREE floors of non-fiction. 3. Many (3-4000?) of the books located in the 900 area (history) belong to the Genealogy collection and should be given to the Archives. 4. The books will deteriorate rapidly due to acidic black markers will be used to cover the “State Library” stamp on the top, bottom and inside of each book. 5. The books will continue to deteriorate even further from extensive physical abuse from pulling old tape and checkout slips off of the books. As a result, the life span of these books will be far less than their present environment. 6. The books cannot be available at least for another two years because it is physically impossible to process them so quickly, therefore InterLibrary Loan will not exist at least for two years or more. 7. All the books will be reclassified from Dewey to LC, which could also involve years of staff time. 8. Many of the books have been donated by citizens from all over the U S., and they will become extremely upset if they find out their donation was sent to a private library. 9. We can check out books in Tallahassee, but will NOT be able to do so in Broward. We will be limited to Inter-Library Loan, which could be another two years. 10. Many of the older books are used by graduate students or specialized researchers, even if they are NOT checked out. They use them on site. The older books are still valuable because their content is used for research and opinions from another time period. If any of you can add to this list, or disagree with me, please let me know. Please feel free to pass this on to other lists. Pam Cooper FGS/FSGS 2003 Conference Co-Chair  < http://www.fgs.org > President, Florida State Genealogical Society < http://www.rootsweb com/~flsgs/  > Chair, Librarians Serving Genealogists < http://www.cas.usf edu/lis/genealib/  > P. O. Box 7066 Vero Beach, FL 32961-7066