From: Nigel Hay (Nigel@milweb.net)
Date: Thu Feb 19 2004 - 00:32:44 PST
When my grandfather died many years ago, as an academic in Hebrew and
Ancient Greek history, he had a vast amount of books, many of which were I
fear very dull as much of academia can be, but they were given to a
children's welfare charity (Dr Barnardos) to be sold off at auction to help
their funds. We did keep some of the volumes, many of which were pre 1900.
There is also a large photo collection taken in 1876 I think when his father
did, on behalf of the War Office, the first photographic survey of the
Himalayas and Nepal.
But my Grandfather is probably responsible for my interest in MV's - in
1929 he bought an ex WW1 Harley Davidson from Warrs in London - years later
I bought a Harley WLC from the current owner Fred Warr - he still had the
records of my grandfathers purchase in their archives!
NIGE
----- Original Message -----
From: "Claude W. Vaughn" <vaughn@totalaccess.net>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 3:30 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] [MVlist] RE: [MV] Books, Oddly Enough
> Never give your books to a public library unless you know they will be
> placed in the collection. This is especially true in large or medium
sized
> library systems.
>
> I live near Austin, Texas and discovered a few years ago that most of the
> donated books were thrown in the dumpster. I believe they now hold sales
to rid
>
> themselves of these unwanted books. The policy (again, a few years ago)
was to
> accept the donation and place the book/s on shelves in a back room. If
there
> were five copies of a title at the end of a two week period and if the
library
> wanted the books they would be placed into the collection. The books had
to be
> clean without any marks or names written on or within them. At the end of
the
> two week period, after the library's selection of the books (if any), then
the
> books were offered to the employees of the library. Any remaining books
were
> thrown into the sealed dumpster for disposal. The library would rather
buy
> books in bulk with TAX DOLLARS than accept free books.
>
> As a side note, the Central Library in Austin had a nearly complete set of
the
> series of books published by the Government Printing Office on the history
of
> the Army in WW-II. Most were first editions. I "visited" the library a
month
> or so ago and only found four of the books remaining.
>
> I would rather give my books to a Hospital, a non state supported
University, or
>
> a PRIVATE School. that to donate to a library (except perhaps a library in
a
> small town).
>
> Claude
>
>
> Wayne Harris wrote:
>
> > You DID remember to buy an extra copy for donation to your local public
> > library didn't you? Wayne
> >
>
>
>
>
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