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Post author By zemkat
Post date July 17, 2017
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We already own quite a few volumes of this serial, as described in the holdings record:

  866	31 ǂa 1948-1975,
  866	31 ǂa 1977-1980,
  866	31 ǂa 1982-1983,
  866	31 ǂa 1985-1986,
  866	31 ǂa 1988,
  866	31 ǂa 1990-2000

Note the multiple lines ending in commas, indicating gaps in our collection. We recently received a gift of four more volume (1981, 1984, 1987, 1989), so I got to rewrite the holdings as:

  866	31 ǂa 1948-1975,
  866	31 ǂa 1977-2000

So satisfying! Maybe someday 1976 will arrive and tidy things further.

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Post author By zemkat
Post date June 26, 2017
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Lincoln on leadership : 41 powerful insights from his speeches, telegrams, letters, memos, and orders / edited and annotated by Harold Holzer. (OCLC #823508278)

The Civil War : 1861-1862 : an illustrated history / [editor, Kelly Knauer]. (OCLC #762190690)

1862 : the year of hope and horror / Weider History Group. (OCLC #859337573)

We don’t normally accept individual issues of magazines (or journals) into the library collection, but these were all special issues with their own individual titles. Other libraries seem to have made similar decisions, a I was able to find copy for all three (but not for individual issues generally).

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Post author By zemkat
Post date November 29, 2016
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The death train : a personal account of a holocaust survivor / Luba Krugman Gurdus. (OCLC #4825260)

While cataloging a gift book from a large collection, one of our catalogers spotted a letter tucked into one volume; it was written to the book’s author, from Menachem Begin, who was Prime Minister of Israel during the book’s publication. I alerted our Special Collections selector in case they’d like to add this to our collections!