** WITH APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING **

Dear all,

Most of you will have contributed, institutionally if not personally, to the following publication:

Barry Bloomfield with Karen Potts, _Directory of Rare and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland_, 2nd edition (1997).

Much has happened between 1997 and the present to render an update essential, in particular with both the acquisition and disposal of collections. The CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group is exploring the feasibility of a printed update, and I am therefore writing to ask whether in principle your organisation would be interested in buying a new hard-copy edition of the Directory (guestimated cost: perhaps £75-100).

Replies are in no way binding: this query is purely an attempt to establish the feasibility of producing a new printed edition of the Directory.

If you think your institution might buy a copy, please could you let me know off-list at k.attar2010[at]btinternet.com by the end of Friday, 19 April?

Many thanks,

Karen

Dr Karen Attar

Publications Officer, CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Group

Dr Karen Attar

Rare Books Librarian

Senate House Library, University of London

Senate House

Malet St

London

WC1E 7HU

Tel. 020 7862 8472

http://research.sas.ac.uk/search/fellow/516/dr-karen-attar/

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