SC - Book on Cordials?

[Huette von Ahrens]

Lilinah!

- --- lilinah at earthlink.net wrote:
> Thank you both, Huette and Thomas, for the
> information.
> 
> I have a question, Huette (or anyone who knows)...
> 
> How do you find out what libraries have the books?
> Are you a 
> librarian? or is there an on-line search method?

Yes, I am a librarian.  I have access to my library's
inter-library computerized catalog.  This is called
RLIN, and comes from UC Berkeley.  RLIN stands for
Research Library Information Network.  Only libraries
subscribe to it because it is mega-expensive to
subscribe to.  I don't know the exact figures, but it
is somewhere (IIRC) about $100,000 per year.  I have
access to it because I am an acquisitions librarian,
but it really is a cataloging tool.
> 
> I got "In a Caliph's Kitchen" by David Waines
> through my local public 
> library via ILL after unsuccessfully trying to find
> a used copy for 
> around 9 months. The librarian said he was only able
> to locate 3 
> libraries in the US with copies.

I have a copy of this cookbook.  Want me to xerox it
for you?

As for other libraries that have it, there are copies
in Yale, University of Minnesota Minneapolis,
Columbia, New York Public,  and University of
Pennsylvania.  Harvard has two copies of this in
Arabic.

> 
> I'd be happy to do some searching ahead of time
> before going to the 
> library, if i knew how...

I am always available to look books up as long as your
list isn't too long.

Huette

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