[ATM] Books

[Tom Conlin]

Hi,
There seems to be a copy here at the University of Oregon.
(http://tinyurl.com/yg9sug)
http://janus.uoregon.edu/search/?searchtype=t&searcharg=%22The+Amateur%27s+Telescope%22&searchscope=8&SORT=D&search.x=34&search.y=8&search=search

There is also an inter-library loan system that means you can most 
likely get the book delivered to a local library.
(in North America anyway)




Dominic-Luc Webb wrote:
> 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 at 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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