My knowledge of the events that occured in any detail is very sketchy. I
do not know if the shelf list was included in what was retrieved. The
shelf list may have been in a different location such as an office area
while the catalog may have been near the doors such that removing the
shelf list during the fire was not an option. I know from the amount of
fire equipment that was on the scence that this was no small fire and time
to do anything about the building contents was probably of a very limited
number of minutes. Paley Library, the main Temple Library, is about two
blocks away and it took quite a while for people in Paley to even know
that anything was happening, then probably a bit more time to digest and
accept as real the news of the fire. Once one reached Broad Street, any
doubts about the situation were quickly removed.
Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, Collins, Kay wrote:
> David and all--
>
> What about the shelf list? That would have been my first choice-even
back then.
> We started a new catalog in 1980 when I came, as there was no way to
> close a 7+ year gap in it (long sad story, that). We saved the old
> catalog and I'm glad we did. It has provided historical information for
> materials that we either purged (mainly Congressional materials that the
> local Depository Library didn't need) or donated (our rail history
> materials went to the Illinois State Library). We use the catalog
> several times a year as a starting point when we get requests for
> historical information. We probably don't hold it today, but we can at
> least verify that something once existed.
> -Kay Collins, US Railroad Retirement Board Chicago
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