Sharing My Journal Collection

Abstract

Maybe I felt a desire to hold on to magazines and scientific journals subliminally from my mother, who spent her career working at a public library in the Chicago suburb where I grew up, or perhaps it was from my stint staffing a small research library while a student at Michigan State University. In any case, by the time I moved out of a home that my late wife and I lived in for nearly 20 years, my magazine collection was massive. At that time, I parted with many, but had numerous connections with The American Chestnut Foundation (TACF) that I've maintained my Journal collection, until now. As I gradually move toward retirement, I have been downsizing my office and felt that the time was right to donate my collection of past issues to the Parks Library at Iowa State University so it can be more broadly used.