swap and shop

["John T Zubal, U.S.B.E." <johnz45897@AOL.COM>]

USBE has created an e-mail group or list which we're informally naming "Swap
& Shop." All libraries and individuals who are interested in learning about
collections, and individual publications that are available on a trade or
buy/sell basis are invited to send their e-mail addresses to USBE which, in
turn, will disseminate such information on a more or less regular basis. The
goal is to find new homes for publications that are not needed by their
current owners. At present we do not anticipate charging for this service.

Here's a sample of what you will receive from USBE:

"We have an inquiry for a set of National Union Catalogue (Mansell) and
similar catalogues (e.g. Paris. Bibliotheque Nationale. Catalogue Generale
des Livres Impremies; Bibliografia nazionale italiana, etc.). Please let us
know if you have such for sale or trade or donation."

The group currently consists in addresses we have gathered over the past
year. If you receive messages from USBE and wish to be removed from the
group, please let us know and we will delete your address. On the other hand,
if you have friends, colleagues, or associates who may wish to participate in
Swap and Shop, please have them contact us.

If you have information to post, just send it to USBE's current e-mail
address which is:

JohnZ45897@aol.com

NB: The list will be edited, chiefly because we don't want it to become
overloaded with offers to sell or trade pedestrian materials. We monitored
several other similar efforts and found they devoted valuable space, time,
and energy to "carrying coals to Newcastle." Such can be the death knell for
such a list.

Having created this group, USBE will no longer post commercial notices to Ex
Libris; we thank Peter Graham and ExLibris for accomodating us over the past
five or six months. We will, of course, continue to subscribe to ExLibris.

I will be out of the office from April 24 to about May 14, 1994. During that
time, Swap and Shop probably won't be very active but I do hope that there
will be an accumulation of messages for us to work thru soon after I return
to work.

john
usbe
2969 west 25th st
cleveland, oh 44113

phone 216 241 6960
fax 216 241 6966