Re: Threatened Collections

[Mark Peterson <markedwinpeterson@GMAIL.COM>]

Just yesterday I saw a presentation on the number of books at Queen's
College, Oxford that need to be vacuum-sealed in plastic because they are
sitting in a damp basement.

Am I not allowed to be interested in whether there might be problems in
Scandinavia?
Mark Peterson

On 5/25/07, Poul Henningsen <phdotcom@earthlink.net> wrote:
> What gives you the sense that Scandinavian collections might be
> "endangered?"
>
> P. Henningsen
> Copenhagen
>
> Oprindelig meddelelse sendt 5/25/07 8:47 AM fra "Mark Peterson"
> <markedwinpeterson@GMAIL.COM>:
>
> > I really mean endangered in any sense, but in general I was thinking
> more in
> > terms of endangered because of the conditions under which they have to
> be
> > kept.
> >
> > Mark Peterson
> >
> > On 5/25/07, Klaus Graf <klausgraf@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> 2007/5/25, Mark Peterson <markedwinpeterson@gmail.com>: Hello, I am
> trying to
> >> write a paper on endangered collections of pre-1500 European works
> >>
> >> What do you mean with endangered? Endangered by what? If you mean
> endangered
> >> by dispersal then it is normal not to know which collection is
> endangered
> >> before the auction catalogs are published.
> >>
> >> Klaus Graf http://www.histsem.uni-freiburg.de/mertens/graf/dondig_e.htm
> >>