Friday, April 20, 2007

April is the cruellest month



We'll be celebrating the acquistion of our millionth volume at the library this afternoon. As you may guess, the millionth volume is a copy of T.S. Eliot's The Wasteland--a donated first edition, however, instead of a trade paper like my own.

Until then, we'll be at the Doctor Faustus colloquium elsewhere on campus.

Hope everyone else has a day just as good!

7 comments:

  1. I do hope you have a wonderful time! I love T.S. Eliot and anything on Faustus is interesting.

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  2. Sounds like an interesting event.

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  3. Congratulations! That sounds like an impressive collection based both on the sheer numbers and the quality of that one millionth volume.

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  4. Wow. The millionth volume? That is some accomplishment! Congratulations!

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  5. Wow, who donated the first ed? How much might it be worth?

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  6. A professor emeritus at the university, Julian D. Mason. I don't have a clue how much it'd be worth, but I imagine a lot considering that it was number 22.

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  7. Anonymous4:07 PM

    A belated congratulations! And what an exciting book you get to make it a million. Hope the celebration was fun.

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