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Publisher’s Page
La Posta’s Body of Knowledge and
“Journal” — or you can click the Browse button beside
Social Postal History
that field and choose “Journal” from that list.
In the “Title” field, type in “La Posta.”
OUR BODY OF KNOWLEDGE To search for articles from La Posta that have been
indexed: in the field “Any Word,” type in “La Posta.”
Since its inception in 1969, La Posta has published
In the field “Record Type,” type in or choose “Article.”
nearly 14,000 pages of research, comments, advertis-
Then you can add a word to the Subject field (e.g.,
ing and notices on the subject of American postal his-
“Alaska”) ; hit the Submit Entry button, and you will
tory. Over one thousand articles written by scores of get 14 “hits.”
talented postal historians have appeared on our pages. If you enter “Helbock” in the Author field, you will get
Our body of literature long ago exceeded my ability
102 hits.
to accurately recall what subjects have been exam-
If you enter “Doanes” in the Title field, you will get 29
ined in La Posta
hits.
.
From there, you can click the “Full Display” button to
Our dear friend and long-time frequent contributor
read the entire description of the article.
Daniel Meschter prepared a detailed listing of articles
published in La Posta
Ellen offered the following replies to questions from
Volumes 1 through 27 in 1996.
He called it a “Cumulative Table of Contents” and,
Cath about how to obtain copies of articles and books
while it was not a searchable index it did feature a
on loan:
“Classified Directory” and an “Author Index.” Dan’s
work has served as our primary means of locating
Cath: can a person order a reprint of an article and
articles published in earlier
have it mailed or e-mailed to them?
La Posta numbers. We
have carried it in its entirety on our website for a num-
Ellen: Yes. Our stand procedure is to photocopy
ber of years and you may access it today at http://
articles and send them by mail, but we did recently
www.la-posta.com/lp-guide.htm.
begin offering scans (either jpg or pdf format) sent by
Recently we have been in contact with Ellen Peachey
email. (Our scanner actually went kaput at the end of
,
Library Services Coordinator at the American Phila-
the day Friday, so I don’t know when that will resume.)
telic Research Library (APRL).
The cost for scans is the same as for faxes: $4 for the
The APRL is in the
first page, and $1 for each additional page. i.e., it’s not
process of compiling a gigantic index of articles con-
bad for a few pages but it gets expensive for lots of
tained in its extensive holding of philatelic journals—
pages. Photocopy fees are noted below.
including a complete run of La Posta. For an intro-
duction to the APRL and its many services please visit
Cath: Do you have a mail-order loan system?
their website:
Ellen: Yes. We will send books directly to APS or
http://www.stamps.org/TheLibrary/lib_AbouttheAPRL.htm
APRL members addresses. Non-members of either APS
I would like to pass along what they have on La Posta
or APRL may order them via Interlibrary Loan (i.e.,
and how you may obtain copies of past articles from
through their local public or university library.)
the APRL and/or from Sherry Straley, who maintains
Details on Member User Fees and interlibrary Loan are
our own repository of La Posta back numbers. Cur-
as follows:
rently there are 1,000 La Posta articles on the APRL
database and the listing is current up to Whole Num-
Member User Fees
ber 224 (Vol. 38, No. 2) April-May 2007. To cover the costs incurred in providing library services
The key to searching the APRL holdings is called the
through the mail, fees are:
Inmagic Genie. Direct your browser to: http://
Base fee: $10 per shipment/request (includes up•
www.stamps.org/InmagicGenie/opac.aspx and you
to 15 minutes of staff time)
will see a Catalog Search table with a number of
Books: $3 for the first book, $1 for each•
named fields.
subsequent book, and $.25 per page for any
In order to see their holdings of La Posta, at the
photocopies
“Record Type” field, you should type in the word
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