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From: Donna Allen <>
Subject: Re: Brethren Encyclopedia access
Date: Tue, 08 Jun 1999 12:29:51 -0400


Where would you buy one?
Donna

Norma wrote:

> Now that libraries have gone on line, if you have internet access you can
> browse their catalogs. To look at the catalogs you usually do not need any
> password, you just can't look at the databases or full text journals. Here
> in Ohio, we have about 60 libraries cooperating through OhioLINK
> <http://www.ohiolink.edu>; and it has a central catalog with a keyword
> search, so when you search that, you get them all, including Ashland which
> has a large Brethren collection. Many other states also have cooperative
> central sites. Generally, you can't get encyclopedias or county histories on
> ILLOAN, but there are exceptions. I was amazed to find an available copy of
> the huge Dayton/Montgomery Co. history from 1897 and I checked it out and
> was able to photocopy the appropriate pages.
>
> To help your own descendants, consider placing a copy of the Brethren
> Encyclopedia in your local public library as a memorial to grandma and
> grandpa (if your community has a large Brethren population), or the next
> time your children whine that they never know what to get you for Christmas,
> suggest that it be purchased in the family name for the library.
>
> Norma
>
> >In addition to what Sam suggested, also consider seminary libraries and
> >libraries of theology departments of major universities for finding the
> >Brethren Encyclopedia. I would be surprised if a library would let it out on
> >interlibrary loan because of its cost and size (three volumes). It is a
> >reference set by definition; most libraries will not lend reference
> >materials, but then all you need is one... Larger Brethren churches may have
> >libraries, too, or that failing, some pastors may own personal copies. I had
> >45 minutes last summer to tear in and out of the genealogy collection in Fort
> >Wayne (IN) (talk about torture!) and noticed that they had the Mennonite
> >Encyclopedia, for example.
> >
> >Sherry Petry
> >Atlanta, GA
> >
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