I think that the Westerville (Ohio) Public Library holds the copyright for
copyrighted Anti-Saloon League of America published and manuscript materials.

If the Standard Encyclopedia goes on line, I recommend that it be on the
web site of an institution that will exist for the forseeable future (such
as a university, public library, etc.).

In any event, this may be something that the officers of the ATHG should
investigate.

At 09:01 AM 4/20/2001 +0000, you wrote:
>David,
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>Putting  my Librarian hat on and combining it with my temperance
>knowledge, here are my thoughts on the reference work- The Standard
>Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem, 6 vols., E.H. Cherrington
>(American Issue, 1925-30).
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>I strongly agree that such works have not been superseded by more
>recent works. Although I have rarely used the work I have used the
>Winskills the UK work, indeed own copies. These reference texts
>are, in many ways, ripe for digitaliazation. As far as librarians are
>concerned such electronic reference works should be networked to
>provide desk top access. This unfortunately can bump up the price.
>As I don't know the USA copyright laws,  this may also have a
>financial consideration: though the work is now about 70 years old!!
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>A key consideration for librarian is will an electronic book be cost
>effective, how many will use it, how often etc. Here in Britain
>university librarian budgets are not as high as in the USA. Indeed,
>my own university library is having to make "hard choices"!!.
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>The American market would probably justify electronic publishing of
>the work but I suspect the demand in the UK would be slight as drink
>and temperance are not as well developed.
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>Access to electronic information is increasing being delivered via
>the Internet and ip addresses and usernames and passwords required.
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>In some ways works like this should be part of a wider programme of
>digitalization of ATH core books that would have a wider appeal, or
>distributed free on the net
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>Hope these thoughts from a wintery Manchester UK are of value.
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>Margaret Barrow
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>Dr Margaret Barrow
>Joule Library
>UMIST,
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