Hi Claudia,

 

I wanted to share this with you.  Hopefully, QC Rosenthal Library will also purchase for their LIS collection.

 

aj

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From: Jackson, Andrew P
Sent: Wed 10/5/2011 1:44 PM
To: McNeill, Dale; Fortin, Thomas
Cc: Galante, Thomas W
Subject: FW: IN HONOR OF

 

Hi Dale and Tom,

 

I'm sharing this with you as a recommendation for purchase by QL of s recently released book, In Honor Of... Libraries Named for African Americans by Dr. George C. Grant.  It is a wonderful work and worthy of inclusion in Central Library's collection and maybe other libraries within the system if budget permits.  LHCL received a copy for our collection as we are included in this work ,and I was asked to write the Preface for Public Libraries as well.  Another colleague wrote the Preface for Academic Libraries.  A copy of the Preface in attached for your information. The below information email from George offers background information and the attachment has page images from the book and ordering information.  

 

Thanks for the consideration,

 

aj

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From: Granthousepub@aol.com [mailto:Granthousepub@aol.com]
Sent: Mon 9/19/2011 6:09 PM
To: lparham@auctr.edu; Jackson, Andrew P
Subject: IN HONOR OF

Loretta,

Sekou,

 

The book is expected from the printer by the end of the month and I am actively planning my marketing and sales.  I only printed 200 copies, as it is a very expensive book, compared to others. 

 

As soon as it is available, a couple of copies are on the way to you.

Most will be hardcover and bound. I am experimenting with spiral bound copies also.

 

I have also invited a couple of colleagues to review the book for further promotions.

 

Again, thanks,

 

See below a copy of one of the cover letters to accompany the (attached) flyer that will promote it.

 

George

 

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(Draft)

 

September, 2011

 

Dear Colleagues,

 

    Many of you will remember the occasional features about libraries named for African Americans that I published between 1980 and 2000 in the BCALA Newsletter.  Well, I’ve now  researched and documented over 260 of them, many of which you are familiar with.  In any event, the volume that I’ve been working on for over six years is now complete.  It answers the questions:

 

    How many libraries in the United States are named to honor African Americans?
    Who are those African Americans for whom libraries are named?
    Where are those libraries, when were they named, and what do they look like?

 

     Its a 276-page, hardcover, 8.5” x 11” book , with color photographs of the libraries and the honorees and a biography of the honoree.  (It is the first ever compilation of this information about these libraries.) It also contains prefaces by Loretta Parham (Academic Libraries) and Andrew “Sekou” Jackson (Public Libraries), as well as several indexes to types of libraries, librarians for whom libraries are named, careers of the honorees, and architects and contractors for the library buildings.
     The volume highlights, among the 260 libraries profiled, a library named to honor an African American youth, a library named for the person who taught the Tuskegee Airmen to fly, a library named for the first African American woman to practice medicine as a licensed physican in Colorado, the persons for whom the most libraries are named, the cities and states with the most libraries named for African Americans, the 24 librarians for whom libraries are named, and the arthitects and contractors for most of the libraries, as well as much, much, more. 
     As you can see from the enclosed flyer, the book is available from Amazon.com, and at a 25% prepaid discount from GrantHouse Publishers.  And, based on the reviews and reaction to proof copies by librarians, I am convinced that you will want to spend hours examining it yourself as well as consider recommending or donating it to others who celebrate our careers in the library profession.

 

       George C. Grant, Compiler
       Retired Library Dean

 

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