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USF: Collecting Dust - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Ten years ago the changing functionality of libraries was, to many, already clear. Libraries would become electronic information gatherers and redistributors and their relationship to the printed word atrophy and decline. Libraries, the repository of books, would become the repository of information. The book, as storage and redistribution element, would be replaced by the database and, in time, the full text search. Libraries, the stodgy backwater of the...

USF: Collecting Dust

- By Bruce McKinney

By Bruce McKinney Ten years ago the changing functionality of libraries was, to many, already clear. Libraries would become electronic information gatherers and redistributors and their relationship to the printed word atrophy and decline. Libraries, the repository of books, would become the repository of information. The book, as storage and redistribution element, would be replaced by the database and, in time, the full text search. Libraries, the stodgy backwater of the...


Recipes for Recovery - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney The book business, like the stock market, was a growth business for many years. Auction realizations increased and listing sites proliferated. ...	Who Bears the Loss from the David Slade Thefts? - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman One of the uglier criminal book theft cases came to its legal conclusion earlier this year when David Slade, Past President of England's...
$8 Million Declaration of Independence Found in Britain - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman "We hold these truths to be self-evident..." It was the greatest statement of human rights at least since the Magna Carta, over half...	Wikis: Adding Links to Google Books - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney This past month I used Google Books, the word-by-word search of eight million full text books, to look for buried references for the...
Advertising is Coming to Your Books Soon, Like It or Not - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman It's coming to a Kindle near you, and it's as ugly as it is inevitable. Remember when the value of subscription television channels...	Auctions: Is the market bottoming? - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney For only the second time in the past year an entire month of auction results is providing positive comparisions to the previous month....
Bing: Microsoft Reenters the Search Engine Wars - By Michael Stillman By Michael Stillman The search engine wars may not seem a topic related to the book trade, but of course it is. An increasing number of...	The AED: useful in tough times - By Bruce McKinney By Bruce McKinney Paid members of AE know what the AED is. It is the Americana Exchange online Database of more than 2.15 million records...
Twelve New Catalogues Under Review There are twelve bookseller catalogues under review for August. Americana is the subject of catalogues from Michael Brown Rare Books and Seneca Books. The Lawbook...	Printed and Manuscript Americana from Michael Brown Rare Books By Michael Stillman Michael Brown Rare Books has issued their Catalog #48 Americana Printed and Manuscript. This is an exceptional catalogue. Brown has supplied some of...
Americana from Seneca Books By Michael Stillman This month we review our first catalogue from Seneca Books, though it is their second: Catalog Two Americana. Seneca Books and their...	Philosophy, Arts, Science and Mathematics from Michael Thompson Books By Michael Stillman We recently received our first catalogue from Michael Thompson Books of Los Angeles. This is certainly a venerable firm, having been formed by...
Books as Art from The Veatchs By Michael Stillman The Veatchs Arts of the Book recently issued their Catalogue 63: Recent Acquisitions. The Veatchs are focused on books as works of...	American Law 1745-1900 from The Lawbook Exchange By Michael Stillman The Lawbook Exchange has issued an extensive new catalogue: American Law, 1745-1900. This catalogue is about three times the size of the...
Custer, Wounded Knee, and the West from Old West By Michael Stillman Old West Books has released their 25th catalogue of Rare, Out of Print Books on the American West. It is divided into sections...	Spanish-Related Books from Paul Orssich By Michael Stillman We have received Catalogo 68 from Paul Orssich, the London-based seller of Spanish and Portuguese-related books. That is not to say they are...
The West and More from Clark Rare Books By Michael Stillman Clark Rare Books has issued Catalog 939 of Americana, The West, and General. Clark has long specialized in books about the American West,...	Signed Documents from David Schulson Autographs By Michael Stillman David Schulson Autographs recently released Catalog 141 of autographs and signed documents by important figures of the past couple of centuries. These are...
Arctic and Canadiana from Bjarne Tokerud By Michael Stillman Bjarne Tokerud Bookseller has issued a new catalogue of the Arctic and Canadiana. The catalogue is filled with accounts of explorations and adventures...	19th Century Travellers from the William Reese Company By Michael Stillman The William Reese Company has issued a catalogue of 19th Century Travellers. For starters, they weren't traveling by car or plane. They took...
106 Cool Maritime Books from Ten Pound Island By Michael Stillman The Ten Pound Island Book Company has issued a new catalogue: Maritime List 185, or 106 Cool Books. "Cool books" are not...	.