[Web4lib] RE: Looking for a set of books

[Campbell, James (jmc)]

How about the Whole Earth Catalog?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_Earth_Catalog

That's not even completely off topic given that Steve Jobs cited it as a precursor to Google - I guess that would make Google a mashup of Stewart Brand and Eugene Garfield.

      - Jim Campbell

      Digital Access Librarian | Librarian for German
      University of Virginia Library | Charlottesville, VA 22904-4112

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From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Andrea Berstler - Director
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:32 PM
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Subject: RE: [Web4lib] RE: Looking for a set of books

 We have a few of the Firefox books, it certainly sounds like them -


Andrea

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Victoria Kemp
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 12:16 PM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] RE: Looking for a set of books

Would these be the Foxfire books? Here's what Amazon says:

In the late 1960s, Eliot Wigginton and his students created the magazine
Foxfire in an effort to record and preserve the traditional folk culture of
the Southern Appalachians. This is the original book compilation of Foxfire
material which introduces Aunt Arie and her contemporaries and includes log
cabin building, hog dressing, snake lore, mountain crafts
and food, and "other affairs of plain living."

The books were compendiums of magazine articles.

HTH

Viccy Kemp

The opinions are my own; the library wouldn't want 'em!





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[mailto:project-wombat-fm-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of
Jennifer Gregory

Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:04 AM

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Subject: [PW] Looking for a set of books



Hello!



I've gotten another one of those "I-don't-know-the-title-or-the-author"
questions.  Here's what the patron had to say:



"I am looking for a set of books from the sixties that tell you how to do
everything. Like from making a forge to making medicines. It was a set of
books or series.  They are not the firefox series.  I just found out about
it from TV.  I remember them being done about the time of the bay of pigs,
they were done out of the fear that the world would end due to nuclear
war.....more like a how to series.  The idea of them is to keep us out of
the dark ages.



"I have asked older people a professor in a college, and she check the
library there, I remember seeing them at one of my customers houses years
ago.  she checked with the library at WVU bluefeild WV."



The patron believes that the title(s) did *not* include the words "how to."



So, any ideas?



Thanks much!

Jennifer



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 Boone County Public Library

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