It's wonderful to see the artifact available. It occurs to me
that a bright young whiz in RBMS could probably make this
available as a CGI-scripted interactive web page without much
trouble, making the tool generally useful (though not nearly as
much fun). --pg
Eric Holzenberg wrote:
>
> Dear All,
>
> After Harrison Horblit's death in 1988, the remaining stock of his
> Collation Computer came to the Grolier Club, along with his splendid
> collection of books and manuscripts on the 19th century bibliomaniac Sir
> Thomas Phillipps. It is indeed a wonderful gadget, and quite useful.
>
> I truly don't mean this to sound like an ad, but the Grolier Club *does*
> have the Bibliographic Collation Computer for sale, and anyone interested
> in at least learning what they look like may visit:
>
> http://www.grolierclub.org/publications.htm
>
> Cheers,
>
> Eric Holzenberg
>
> At 06:24 AM 12/28/00 -0800, you wrote:
> >We use these at the John Carter Brown Library --
> >simple, wonderful gadgets! I will bring mine (c.1964,
> >somewhat faded and yellowed, but still very usable) to
> >ALA Mid-winter next month. See me after one of the
> >RBMS Bibliographic Standards meetings if you would
> >like to try it out.
> >
> >Eileen Smith
> >eileen_smith@brown.edu
> >Rare Book Cataloguer
> >John Carter Brown Library
> >Box 1894 Brown University
> >Providence RI 02912
> >(401) 863-2726
> >
> >
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