Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site zinfandel.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry From: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Throwing things away Message-ID: <195@zinfandel.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 12:38:11 EDT Article-I.D.: zinfande.195 Posted: Mon Sep 24 12:38:11 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 06:24:50 EDT References: <4715@brl-tgr.ARPA> Reply-To: berry@zinfandel.UUCP (Berry Kercheval) Organization: Zehntel Inc., Walnut Creek, CA Lines: 18 I second the motion. I usually dispose of magazines by giving them to the library. They often already subscribe to the ones I give them but welcome them anyway to fill in gaps in the collection, have spares for ones that disappear, or trade with other libraries for what they DO want. Technical journals are particularly valuable. I worked for a technical library as an undergrad, and once had to find a 4 year old copy of Phys. Rev. Lett., or some such. A specialty house wanted something like $35 for it -- and that was over six years ago. If you dispose of technical journals by donation, be sure to get a receipt so you can deduct their value. Also be sure to tell the librarian about the possibility of trading. Once I gave 75 pounds of Physics journals to a public library which was reluctant to take them until I mentioned the trading part, then their eyes lit up! -- Berry Kercheval Zehntel Inc. (ihnp4!zehntel!zinfandel!berry) (415)932-6900