Andrea has raised an interesting question that I'm facing. My
library, as some of you know, was closed for the past 6 years, for a
variety of reasons. We've recently moved back into a new facility,
and there's a wonderful library.
The new room has much more shelf space than the former one did, but
not nearly enough for everything. So what I've decided to do is to
stock it with the most important books, and new items I've purchased
since we went into boxes.
Of the rest (and there are MANY of those), I'm creating an Archive
and Research center in another part of the complex. We have a
substantial amount of archival material, and I'm adding to it a
signuficant number of older adult books.
It occurs to me that we also have a number of important older
children's books that might go into the archives, rather than sit
unread on the new library's shelves. It may be appropriate to save
some of our historic children's titles, as well as the adult books.
Has anyone else done this with their older (pre-1960, for example)
children's books? What criteria do you use? For instance, are you
saving all copies of multi-copy titles, or only 1 or 2?
Fred Isaac
Temple Sinai
Oakland, CA
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