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Re: [ATM] Books

Hi everyone, and of course, season's greetings regardless of your faith!

In publishing my doctoral thesis, I got a little experience in dealing
with works that are long out of print. I wanted to include a figure
from a book published about 1850 and the publisher no longer existed,
but the library had the book. As it turned out, there is a "rule" that
books that have been out of print for more than 70 years can be copied
and even re-distributed. As regards my thesis, librarian scanned the
figure and a short excerpt. It may interest you to know how we dealt with
citing this since the publisher does not any longer exist. If others
wanted to read for themselves from my original source to see that I had
correctly cited it, how would they do this? It turns out that the "rule"
is that you cite the specific library you found the work in, the date,
and the name of the librarian who scanned/copied it. It turned out that
credits/citations also go to the library that houses the book.

Sadly, I cannot go to UC Berkeley libraries myself for a while (back
problems prevent me from flying at the moment), but if someone else
is willing to contact a librarian there, I think they should be able to
make some kind of arrangement as described above. Who knows, maybe this
book could end up as an online PDF.


Dominic-Luc Webb


On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Richard Ozer wrote:

> The only copy I've ever seen was at the UC Berkeley science library.  Not an easy book to find...
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: Francis J. O'Reilly
>   To: atm@atmlist.net
>   Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 7:37 PM
>   Subject: [ATM] Books
>
>
>   Group,
>
>   I am looking for a copy of Rev. Ellison's work, "The Amateur's Telescope"
>   published in about 1920 and referred to by Ingalls in ATM volume 1. Does
>   anyone have a copy they would consider parting with? If so, or if you know
>   where I could find one, I am interested in purchasing the work. I have an
>   extensive ATM library and this would be a welcome addition.
>
>   Regards and best wishes to all for the holidat season.
>
>   Francis J. O'Reilly
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