THE LOC DOES NOT HAVE STOUFFERS BOOK was Re: From the Person who ...

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No: HPFGUIDX 14530

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., hamster8 at h... wrote:
> now I may well be wrong, but doesn't 
> US law require a copy of every single book published in the States 
to 
> be lodged with the Library of Congress?  I was under the impression 
> that it was roughly the same system that gets a book put in the 
> British Library, and three others, Trinity College, Dublin is one 
of 
> them, Oxford is one, obviously, else Simon wouldn't have access to 
it 
> (I assume) and I think Cambridge do the same.  So surely the 
Library 
> of Congress *must* have a copy.  Can any List-Americans help out 
here?
> 

I have said this a zillion times before but I will repeat it, and I 
hope you will excuse my shouting:

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DOES NOT HAVE A COPY OF THE STOUFFER BOOK.

Allow me to repeat:

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DOES NOT HAVE A COPY OF THE STOUFFER BOOK.

Yes, U.S. law requires all publishers to send 2 copies of everything 
they publish to the Library of Congress.  No, all publishers do not 
always do so.  No, the Library is not either willing or able to 
enforce this law.  No, librarians other than Madam Pince do not have 
magical powers so books published in the US do not magically appear 
in the Library of Congress as they come off the press.  Stouffers 
original publisher did not send copies to the Library of Congresss.  
They are not there.  Stouffer is not listed in their catalog.  They 
are not in any library catalog in any publically accessible database 
or in any catalog of Books in Print.  We have only Stouffers word 
that they even existed prior to a year or two ago.

If you get the impression that the frequent repetition of the 
statement "But the Library of Congress MUST have a copy, they have a 
copy of EVERYTHING" is getting on my nerve, you are right.

I just have to scream one more time.

THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS DOES NOT HAVE A COPY OF THE STOUFFER BOOK.

There.  I feel better, now.  Please excuse my rant.


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