Not to worry. Three or four years ago Fairleigh Dickinson Univ. closed one
of it's campuses, including that campus's library, and sold most of the
books in the library to local booksellers. Many of these books are now in
the secondhand book trade. The books are heavily library-stamped, but I
don't recall seeing any withdrawl stamps. Yes, the college is still
alive.--Joseph Felcone
Germaine Warkentin wrote:
> 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 sold off a raft of books without stamping them "withdrawn"?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)
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