The E-Sylum:  Volume 8, Number 51, December 4, 2005, Article 6

UPDATE FROM DAVID GINSBURG

David Ginsburg, who's researching the circulation of
gold coins in the pre-Civil War era, writes: "First
of all, my thanks to the subscribers who responded
to my request for suggestions for books to read.
I'm having some very good luck finding books on
economic and financial history.  Our local library
is a member of a county-wide cooperative of public
libraries; their entire catalog is online (so it's
easy to search) and the books I request get delivered
to my local library.  So far I've got a list of
nine books that I want to read.  I've skimmed "Banks
and Politics in America from the Revolution to the
Civil War" by Bray Hammond (Princeton University Press,
1957) and tomorrow I'll be picking up "A History of
Currency in the United States" by A. Barton Hepburn
(MacMillan Company, 1915).

Since I only get the books for a few weeks, I take
notes and copy the sections that I'm really interested
in, including the bibliography.  The best part is that
I get to give the books back after I'm done with them,
so they won't further overload my already crowded
bookshelves.

After I've gone through the county-wide cooperative,
I'll see if I can get more titles through their other
inter-library loan facilities, and, I've also discovered
an electronic repository of academic journals, so perhaps
in the summer I'll go to our local state university to
see if I can get them to print out some articles for me.

Finally, if there's anything I really want to own, I can
almost always find it on the Internet - I love
www.abebooks.com!"

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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