From: joann@ariadne.SLAC.Stanford.EDU (Jo Ann Malina)
Newsgroups: alt.pagan
Subject: Re: I'm looking for a book . . .
Date: 14 Apr 92 05:34:58 GMT
Reply-To: joann@unixhub.slac.stanford.edu
Organization: SLAC (Stanford Linear Accelerator Center)

In article <29EA06FC.27239@noiro.acs.uci.edu>, cortese@hepxvt.ps.uci.edu (Janis Maria Cortese) writes:
|> A different book, but I've been looking for it for twenty damned years
|> and would gratefully borrow money to buy it.  It is responsible in large
|> part for my love of reading and voracious appetite for books.  It is a
|> simple collection of fairy tales, not at all gruesome like the Grimm's
|> fairy tales.  It is one of a set of (I think) three books called "Under
|> the Magic Umbrella", "Under the Green Umbrella", and "Under the Stars
|> and Stripes."  The one I'm looking for -- and have been since I was
|> about eight -- is "Under the Green Umbrella," and if anyone has ANY
|> information at all, I am willing to reimburse you.  There are many
|> stories in it; if I recall correctly two are called "Elsie Piddock
|> Skips in her Sleep," and "The Bean Boy."  It never occurred to me to
|> post this question, and there are probably newsgroups that are better
|> suited to it.  HOWever, if anybody has any information, please please
|> please please post it.  It may be hard to find; it was old even when I
|> was young.

There's now a soc.libraries.talk group. This is the sort of thing librarians
love. Give it to them. Try cross-posting to bit.listserv.literary and
rec.arts.books.

The other thing to try is used bookstores and especially, book search
services. There should be ads for book finders in the ads in the New
Yorker and other such publications -- New York Review of Books, New York
Times Book Review, anything literary types are likely to read. They'd also
love to find the book you want for a fee, though they prefer a definite
title and author. That's where the librarians come in handy -- they may
be able to track it down for you.

|> 
|> On a related note, does anyone know how you go about borrowing books
|> from the Library of Congress?  I've heard that they have all sorts of
|> books from stuff like this to more hairy political junk.  Is there a
|> sort of central library in the country where I might find something like
|> this, and is it the L of C?

I don't think the Library of Congress lends its books, but the person to ask
about it is whoever at your library (public or school) is responsible for
Interlibrary Loan.

Any sizeable library will have the Library of Congress' catalog in book form
(would fill the walls of an average living room by now) or maybe on microfiche
or computer. Maybe not your public library branch, but a local University or
the County Library system? 

|> 
|> Many very happy thanks for ANY information,
|> Blessings,
|> Janis
|> 

It's easy when you know the Magic Words...

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