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>From: Daniel Swingley <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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Subject: donation of Psychology reference books
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Any interested parties should respond to Daniel Swingley directly at his
e-mail address: [email protected]
CivilSoc subscribers should also know that the American Association for
the Advancement of Science operates a scientific journal donation program
for countries of the NIS. Further information about this program can be
obtained from Beth Boswell, whose e-mail address is: [email protected]
Holt Ruffin
Center for Civil Society International
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Greetings,
I am the manager of a small reference library in the Department of
Psychology at Stanford University. I am writing to ask for advice.
I would like to donate our collection of the journal Psychological
Abstracts, to any library that could use it. My calls, emails, and
assorted queries to local libraries have found no takers.
One of the curators at the Green Library here at Stanford suggested
that I get in touch with you.
Here's what I have: Psychological Abstracts from 1974 to 1993
inclusive (missing 1986). PA is a serious resource for psychological
research. It comes annually in two parts: the index volumes and the
abstracts volumes. The annual subject and author indexes provide
English headings and key numbers for the abstracts volumes, which
contain one-paragraph summaries of the indexed articles. It is like a
library unto itself, and since the field of psychology is broad, so are
the references: everything from the neurobiology of behavior to the
social habits of children and the treatment of schizophrenia.
Our collection of PA is duplicated elsewhere in the University, so we
would like to make these volumes available to any library that could use
them more profitably. I know that scientific libraries in many areas of
the world cannot afford substantial journal collections (PA costs
several hundred dollars a year) and I believe that our PA collection may
help fill a gap somewhere.
There are two obvious problems: finding a site that could use them,
and paying the postage. The Department cannot afford to pay the
postage, though I am negotiating for a contribution from our (limited)
funds. Consequently I am looking for someone familiar with
international organizations that coordinate this sort of donation.
The collection occupies approximately 22 feet (7 meters) of shelf
space and weighs approximately 577 pounds (262 kg).
Any suggestions you might have would be very gratefully appreciated.
I would love to see this collection make a difference somewhere where it
is needed.
Yours,
Daniel Swingley
Department of Psychology
Stanford University
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