The E-Sylum:  Volume 5, Number 22, May 27, 2002, Article 2

KUDOS TO ANS LIBRARIAN FRANK CAMPBELL

  Dick Johnson writes: "On May 22nd I spent a day
  researching at the American Numismatic Society and
  must compliment Librarian Francis Campbell.  He
  couldn't do enough for me.  I called ahead, then emailed
  what I wanted to look at.  Tough Assignment:   all
  F.I.D.E.M. exhibition catalogs back to 1949, everything
  on A.M.S.A., a couple articles on diesinkers and some
  Franklin Mint catalogs to start with.  I was tying down a
  lot of loose ends for my directory on American Artists of
  Coins and Medals.

  When I arrived the books were on a work table waiting for
  us  (I had brought along my wife to operate the photocopy
  machine). I also had a handful of printouts on individual
  references from the library's on-line catalog to search if we
  had time.  So while Frank pulled books off the shelves, I
  searched the content of each and stuck in bookmarks --
  start here, stop here -- my wife did the photocopying. The
  early F.I.D.E.M. exhibition data proved a problem, it was
  buried in other works.  Frank found them!

  At the end of the day there was a five-foot stack of books,
  catalogs, periodicals, and Shirley had 800 pages of
  photocopies! If you do any research in numismatics -- or
  you want to read any subject within the broadest connection
  of our field -- you have got to get on a first name basis with
  Frank Campbell and visit the ANS library. Frank has an
  encyclopedic mind, knows his domain intimately, and can
  pull out of his computer (miraculously at times, it seems!),
  any numismatic reference whatsoever.  Thanks Frank!"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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