The E-Sylum:  Volume 6, Number 48, November 9, 2003, Article 13

BOOK STORAGE OPTION: THE ANA LIBRARY

  Howard A. Daniel III writes: "One of my personal projects in
  numismatics to have the numismatic libraries of several different
  societies transferred to the American Numismatic Association
  Library.  Several societies of which I am a member are without
  facilities and a volunteer member(s) must store, process and
  care for their libraries.  The libraries eventually grow too large
  for an individual member to handle and the librarian has to find
  a solution or requests that it be transferred to someone else who
  can handle all of it.  And then there is often not a volunteer
  member to take charge of the library.

  This problem happened with the USA part of the International
  Bank Note Society (IBNS) Library and Joe Boling and I worked
  on the problem and convinced the IBNS board to transfer it to
  the ANA Library.  The ANA Library is a lending library and
  we did not want the library in one where research could only be
  done in the library.

  The IBNS books are professionally shelved and cared for by
  librarians and when IBNS members want to borrow them (or
  any ANA book too!), they contact the library and request that
  they be mailed to them. I would very much like to see the
  Numismatics International (NI) Libraries transferred to the
  ANA Library.  I cannot answer Granvyl's question about the
  storage of books, but I wanted to throw out this suggestion to
  him and other NI members and hope the NI Libraries can be
  transferred to the ANA, or at least those headed for storage."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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