The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 4, January 26, 2003, Article 20

ONE-TO-ONE LIBRARIES

  Document and autograph dealer Kenneth Rendell
  published some thoughts a couple years ago on the effect that
  the internet is having on bibliophiles.  The article appeared
  in Business 2.0 (September 26, 2000).  The full text is
  available at this address:
  http://www.business2.com/articles/mag/0,1640,14038,FF.html

  "The major libraries of the future are being formed right
  now, and the Internet in particular and technology in
  general are important ingredients. "

  "Few of these libraries are even slightly known to the public...
  While the sources of historical letters and manuscripts have
  always been relatively few, and collectors of original writings
  have been more individual in their approach, collecting books
  has always been greatly influenced by the supply system. If
  you were interested in people or subjects out of the
  mainstream, and there was no dealer specializing in the area,
  you would have a very difficult time collecting. Dealers
  wouldn't buy non-mainstream books for their stocks and
  certainly couldn't afford to risk catalog space on books of
  unproven interest.

  The Internet has revolutionized this. The books that you want
  to put together on a particular subject may be scattered among
  several hundred dealers throughout the world, and they may
  not be expensive enough to appear in printed catalogs, but by
  using the Net, you can find them in the most efficient way. "

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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