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     Jim is correct about the leasing agreement, but usually when you
     got the latest, you returned the previous, so I would assume that
     HelenJane was not leasing if they still have all those years,
     unless they got that special permission.

     But it seems to me that I read somewhere once that Rand McNally did
     it's own survey of each community each year and that they didn't
     rely on the Census Bureau's population figures. Plus I know you can
     find towns listed in those atlases that don't show up in the census
     volumes. I would keep all those years. Our run only goes back to
     when we stopped leasing. I used to call the Rand McNally librarian
     to check in years back to 1876 that we didn't own for place names
     and/or population, but now that archival collection is at the
     Newberry.
     Arlyn
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Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2000 11:26:02 -0400
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Helenjane et al,

Something that is related and could impact your decision(s).

The policy may have changed, but I just remembered something (without
checking & that's dangerous as one gets older) but I remember at least
from the 70s and 80s that libraries "rented or leased" the atlases from
R.Mc.  i.e., one sigend a contract to return the outdated vol.s.
R.Mc>'s argument was that they did not want outdated materials out in
the public.  Maybe this was a good marketing strategy as well.  Anyway,
if libraries wished to reatin older editions as research material (for
trend data), one had to write to R.Mc. staff and request permission to
retain.

Does anyone else know of this?

Jim Minton
Mapoteca - UTK
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