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<p class="MsoNormal">Dear all,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">We all know that rare books are international and travel, so that researchers might need to travel too. A major source to find out about rare book and special collection strengths in the British Isles is the following:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Barry Bloomfield with Karen Potts, _<i>Directory of Rare and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland</i>_, 2nd edition (1997).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">This comprehensive book describes British and Irish library holdings in general terms and then provides brief descriptions of named special collections, with pointers to more detailed information, to enable researchers to locate book strengths
in their area of interest. The volume has provided an invaluable overview, but much has happened between 1997 and the present to render an update essential, in particular as collections have been both acquired and disposed of. I am therefore writing to ask
whether in principle your organisation would be interested in buying a new hard-copy edition of the Directory (guestimated cost: perhaps £75-100; = $US 114-152 at a recent reckoning).<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Replies are in no way binding: this query is purely an attempt to establish the feasibility of producing a new printed edition of the Directory.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">If you think your institution might buy a copy, please could you let me know off-list at k.attar2010[at]btinternet.com by the end of Friday, 19 April?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Also: I realise that this query is more for curators than cataloguers, but that list members are more likely to be cataloguers than curators. Please could you pass the query on to those who make purchasing decisions as relevant?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Karen<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Dr Karen Attar<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Publications Officer, CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Dr Karen Attar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Rare Books Librarian<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Senate House Library, University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">WC1E 7HU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">Tel. 020 7862 8472<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">http://research.sas.ac.uk/search/fellow/516/dr-karen-attar/<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black">The University of London is an exempt charity in England and Wales and a charity registered in Scotland (reg. no. SC041194)</span><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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