This past Friday was Albert Einstein’s 146th birthday. Einstein is so popular in academic libraries that none of our biographies of him are on the Krueger Library retention list. However, a collection of his letters with fellow Nobel-prize-winner Max Born is on our retention list.
Einstein, Albert, Max Born, and Hedwig Born. The Born-Einstein Letters: Friendship, Politics, and Physics in Uncertain Times … with Commentaries by Max Born. Houndmills, UK: Macmillan, 2005.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.
In retention story #5 from last February, I mentioned that most of the books on our retention list are not considered especially notable by scholars. In that retention story, I highlighted two books that were both notable and on our retention list. They were from the humanities and social sciences. Here are two more examples—one from chemistry and one from physics—that are both notable and on the retention list.
Goldwhite, Harold. Introduction to Phosphorus Chemistry. Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Wasserman, Robert. Tensors and Manifolds: With Applications to Mechanics and Relativity. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Recap: In 2022, twenty-four Minnesota libraries joined together in a commitment to retain over a half-million print books which are scarcely-held in Minnesota. It is called the Minnesota Shared Print Collection. This is one of the stories from the Winona State share of the collection.