[bksvol-discuss] Re: Need help with a book hunt for two books
- From: Valerie Maples <vlmaples1@xxxxxxx>
- To: "bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 23:17:38 -0500
I can get anything regional through ILL; send me the WorldCat link and I can
have my library request it. May take weeks to months, but they are very good
to me usually. :-0
Thanks!
Valerie
On Jul 20, 2014, at 10:47 PM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Valerie, yeah, I checked Worldcat first. Worldcat shows two copies of
> Ranger in Mississippi. There are a little over 30 copies total listed at
> libraries around the country. Jerry has only six copies listed, one actually
> in Tuscaloosa, so it's too bad I don't have family over near there any more!
> smile.
>
> Judy s.
>
> On 7/20/2014 9:31 PM, Valerie Maples wrote:
>> Have you seen where copies are on WorldCat.org? Don’t have time right now,
>> but I can usually get books in if available.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Valerie
>>
>> On Jul 20, 2014, at 6:58 PM, Judy s. <cherryjam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> I'm looking for help in getting two books into the collection that have
>>> eluded capture. smile. If we can find copies of these two, Bookshare will
>>> become the only library in the world that has all of S. P. Meek's series of
>>> animal books written for young adults in their collection. The novels were
>>> quite popular during the 1930s through to the 1950s, when the author
>>> stopped writing. They always center around a working animal, such as a
>>> guide dog, a police dog, an army cavalry horse, or a border patrol horse,
>>> for example, and that animal's special human. Some of the books are dated
>>> in terms of their portrayal of certain situations, but overall they've
>>> weathered well. Meek was a well-respected army colonel whose books appealed
>>> especially to middle school boys.
>>>
>>> The two titles we are missing are:
>>> 1. Ranger : A Dog of the Forest Service
>>> and
>>> 2. Jerry: The Adventures of an Army Dog
>>>
>>> If anyone who scans can find and scan a copy through their library of
>>> either or both of these books I'll be totally grateful, and of course happy
>>> to proofread them. Both titles do become available occasionally through
>>> used booksellers, but are too pricey for me to buy outright.
>>>
>>> I also want to take a second and thank all my fellow volunteers who've
>>> helped find the rest of Meek's books. You are all the best! smile. It's
>>> taken a couple of years, but we now have 18 of Meek's 20 young adult novels
>>> in the Bookshare collection.
>>> --
>>> Judy s.
>>> Follow me on Twitter at QuackersNCheese
>>
>
> --
> Judy s.
> Follow me on Twitter at QuackersNCheese
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