[SIGCIS-Members] A Favor to Each Other

[Christine Finn]

Hi James, members,

You'll need to be quick at remainder bookstores. Your best bet might be
charity bookshops such as Oxfam in the UK... My own 'Artifacts: an
archaeologist's year in Silicon Valley' (MIT Press 2001/2002) was
remaindered quite early on because of slow sales. Now retro tech is the
next-big-thing in the UK, and I'm talking about it again,  but when I
checked with MIT Press what could be used for promotion I discovered they'd
pulped what was left in the warehouse. Now that's what I call obselete!

It's still in print, tho' .... and I'll keep working that seam!

Christine Finn



2009/9/29 Chigusa Kita <chigusa.kita at nifty.ne.jp>

> Hello All,
>
> As Jim said, Japanese material would not be rare enough, there is a
> web book store in which many small book stores are participated.
>
> You should use this site using Japanese, but it may be of your help:
>
> http://www.kosho.or.jp/
>
> Its title is Nihon-no-Furuhon-ya, meaning Japanese Used Book Dealers.
> If other Japanese researchers on the list have another idea, please
> make another recommendation. I am happy to discuss with you on this
> matter to decide which is the best one to offer for Jim, because he
> needs one per each country.
>
> Chigusa Kita
>
> 2009/9/29 James Cortada <jwcorta at us.ibm.com>:
> > Over the past 2 years I have been acquiring books and other publications
> > concerning the history of ICT from around the world, not just about the
> USA,
> > GB, and Japan as many of us have already done. And in the process have
> had
> > enormous difficulty in finding materials for all the usual reasons: lack
> of
> > bibliographies, lack of ISBN numbers, ignorance about which book dealers
> to
> > go to etc. When I find materials, it is often by accident--clearly not a
> > good way to gather materials. It seems that every time I go to a new
> country
> > on business, I discover materials that are not listed in the normal
> places;
> > recently while in Switzerland, I came across a book on the history of IT
> in
> > Swiss railroads, another on Swiss banking, and heard of a book being
> > published later this year on the history of Swiss ICT.
> >
> > I would like to ask my colleagues if we each could share with everyone
> else
> > the names, addresses, and Internet location of the book stores in your
> > country that you find the most reliable for purchasing old and new
> materials
> > on the history of ICT. I would be happy with one per country where, for
> > example, if I wanted all the key works on Finish or Polish computing I
> could
> > reach out to a book dealer, knowing that he or she would find most if not
> > all the materials. One per country would be fantastic. And if we could
> > collect enough names, perhaps we could find a place to keep the list,
> such
> > as at the CBI website. All of Europe, Latin America and Asia need to be
> > covered, regardless in what languages publications appear.
> >
> > As an example of the problem, we all are familiar with Simon Nora and
> Alain
> > Minc's 1978 report to the French Government on ICT; the one volume was
> > translated into English by MIT, and it also appeared in Spanish and
> German.
> > But I could not find the full set of 5 volumes that the French government
> > published originally here in the US or in by chance visiting book shops
> in
> > Paris until one day by accident I found the full set and in reading that
> > set, I uncovered a considerable amount of useful information about ICT in
> > countries not discussed in the one volume summary that everyone has seen.
> > These kinds of materials have to be rescued, and used.
> >
> > I feel a sense of urgency about this because I am now focusing on the
> global
> > history of ICT and find that the American university libraries are
> missing a
> > great many items and they are not showing up in the usual Internet
> websites,
> > such as abebooks.com, Alibris, etc. in sufficient amounts. So I have to
> > build my own collection. Furthermore, I would like to build up a nice
> > collection that, when I am finished with my research, I can donate to
> CBI.
> >
> > Thanks in advance for your help to me and to each other,
> >
> >
> > Dr. Jim (James) W. Cortada
> > IBM Institute for Business Value
> > 2917 Irvington Way
> > Madison, WI 53713 USA
> > jwcorta at us.ibm.com
> > 608-270-4462
> >
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