From: Deanna Marcum <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2012 20:10:43 -0500

The Copyright Office offers one of those copies to the Library of
Congress for its collections. The subject specialists and recommending
officers determine which titles should be added to the Library's
permanent collections. If added, the titles will be preserved by the
Library.

Deanna Marcum
Managing Director
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New York, New York 10065

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From: Sandy Thatcher <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2012 22:31:13 -0600

But, as required by the copyright registration process, all those
trade publishers send at least two copies to the Library of Congress.
Doesn't the LC have a preservation policy?

Sandy Thatcher

P.S. University presses, in addition, usually have deposit at least
one copy of every book they publish with their own university's
library.


> From: Joseph Esposito <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2012 09:47:41 -0500
>
> You have the same situation with trade books.  There are no
> preservation policies that I can detect.  I have tried to drum up
> interest in this and would be interested to hear from others who are
> working in this area.  We know that we don't want to lose the output
> of the university presses at Harvard, Chicago, California, Georgetown
> et al, but do we want to walk away from the serious work published by
> Random House and HarperCollins?
>
> Joe Esposito
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 13, 2012 at 6:55 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>>  From: Jim O'Donnell <[log in to unmask]>
>>  Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:51:47 -0500
>>
>>  So an issue of the New Yorker from this fall (the double issue Oct
>>  29/Nov 5 with Mitt getting a tattoo on the cover) went missing, and we
>>  went to get a replacement.  Seems not to have shown up at all.  Called
>>  the New Yorker's subscription service number from the masthead in the
>>  back of the magazine and found that it can't be done.  They now retain
>>  only the current issue and two immediately previous and pulp
>>  everything else.  If you want a back issue older than that, go to the
>>  secondary market and good luck to you.
>
>  >
>  > 1.  Am I wrong that this is a big comedown in service over days of
>  > yore?  I understand the $$ drivers, but for a magazine as
>  > non-evanescent as the New Yorker, it still seems extreme.
>>
>>
>>  2.  Makes me realize that while we've been focused on assuring
>>  preservation of and access to e-versions of serial publications, we
>>  may be approaching the brink of losing the old assurance of print
>>  preservation.  Once upon a time, lots of libraries got things in
>>  print, bound them carefully, cataloged them, shelved them, cared for
>>  them lovingly.  Loving care for print materials is no longer something
>>  you can count on (colleagues trying to give away books at the point of
>>  retirement are getting some rude awakenings around me) and when people
>>  switch from p- and e- to e-only, there may well be things that just
>>  get lost.  Reminds me a bit of the great loss of print books in the
>>  Catholic church in the 1960s when Latin went out and mountains of
>>  stuff got trashed, replaced by mimeographed booklets.  It's actually
>>  hard to find those old liturgical books now.  Same of the New Yorker
>>  in 50 years?  Or Popular Mechanics?
>>
>>  Jim O'Donnell