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Re: collection offer



The Napa Valley is near UC, Davis or CSU, Sacramento but they may not be
interested in
"round the world" material.  Maybe Getty? or Corbis (owned by Microsoft)?
They seem to be
cornering the market in images.

Bill Jones
Special Collections
CSU, Chico


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roy Webb [SMTP:rwebb@LIBRARY.UTAH.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 2:54 AM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      collection offer
>
> [cross-posted to ARCHIVES and PHOTOHST, so apologies in
> advance]
>
> I recently received a letter from someone offering us a collection as
> follows:
>
> "From 1966-1993 my parents traveled the world, taking 300,000+
> slides, which they narrowed own to 25,386, and organized into 66
> slide shows with narration and music.  My mother, who lives in
> Napa Valley, is now preparing to move into a nursing home, and we
> need to find a new home for 266 carousels, 133 tapes, [and] 893
> pages of script.  [snip]  I have an index of the contents of the 66
> shows."
>
> I wrote to the email address given in the letter and learned the
> following in reply:
>
> "The other slides were tossed as they created the shows...actually
> 275,000 is an estimate (thank goodness I didn't have to count
> them!). They were ruthless in their selection of slides to keep.
>
> I was searching the web for places that might be interested in the
> slides. The Univ. of Utah was one of the places, as was UC
> Riverside and the Carpenter center at Harvard.  We are a pretty
> ecumenical family, with no direct link, other than a cousin, to the
> Mormons.
>
> It hadn't occurred to me that we might actually sell the collection.  I
> was thinking of it as a tax-write-off for my mother.  If donated, I
> would want the University to have the collection packed up and
> shipped off so that we don't have to incur either the work or the
> cost."
>
> After thinking and talking it over with my staff, I can't really justify
> the time and money and resources that giving this collection the
> treatment it deserves would entail, given that it doesn't fit in any
> way into our collection development policies.  It sounds like a very
> neat bunch of stuff and in the best of all possible worlds I'd love to
> have it; but given the current funding climate with the University of
> Utah and the Utah Legislature (if the football team would only throw
> that BYU game a couple of years in a row!), I think I have to say no
> to this.
>
> So here's the question, after this long-winded entry: is there
> anyone out there in Archivy who would be interested in this?  Are
> there "around-the-world" repositories?  We actually have a couple
> of collections like this; but 80 magic lantern slides or a couple
> dozen 16mm films are one thing; 25,000+ slides are quite another.
>
> So if you are interested, do this: contact me, and I'll forward your
> messages to the donor, and you and she can take it from there.
>
>
> Roy Webb, C.A.
> Multimedia Archivist
> Special Collections
> J. Willard Marriott Library
> 295 South 1500 East
> University of Utah
> Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
> (801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
> rwebb@library.utah.edu
>
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