This message was posted on FICINO, and I volunteered to cross-post it to
ExLibris, on the theory that anyone so keen to establish the legitimate
ownership of a book should be rewarded. Please respond to the original
poster, Jameela Lares <jlares@OCEAN.OTR.USM.EDU>. Though given the
Holmesian nature of the problem ("The Strange Case of the Missing
Library") perhaps whoever knows the answer might satisfy our curiosity
by posting it to the list as well! best to all, Germaine
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Is Fairleigh-Dickinson Library still active?
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 2000 10:03:23 -0600
From: Jameela Lares <jlares@OCEAN.OTR.USM.EDU>
Reply-To: "FICINO: FICINO Discussion - Renaissance and Reformation
Studies" <FICINO@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA>
To: FICINO@LISTSERV.UTORONTO.CA
Please pardon a rather trivial inquiry, but I thought particularly
someone
on this list may have an answer, as it concerns early modern library
collections. Off-list responses are fine.
I recently bought a used book on an early modern topic that looks as
though it may still be the property of Fairleigh Dickinson University
Library, Teaneck (heavily stamped and marked on the inside, with no
indication of withdrawal from the collection), but I haven't been able
to
reach them. Our Interlibrary Loan director at Southern Mississippi
advises me that the phone numbers to the library have been disconnected;
and the e-mail address for the library came back undeliverable when she
attempted to send a message. In addition, their OCLC symbol for
borrowing
materials is inactive. There was still a web site for the library and
the
university (http://www.fdu.edu/help/helpform.html); I sent a message a
few
weeks ago, but I haven't heard anything from them, and I'm a bit slow on
university gossip. Is the university no more? Alternatively, have they
sold off a raft of books without stamping them "withdrawn"? I'd be glad
to keep the book, but only if it is truly mine to keep.
Thanks for any information anyone can render.
Jameela Lares
Associate Professor of English
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS 39406-5037
+(601) 266-4319 ofc message
+(626) 577-5810 home/fax (sabbatical)