The collection consists of material created and accumulated by Laura K. Lada-Mocarski and Valerian Lada-Mocarski, stemming from their collecting activities and relating particularly to their book collection, which they donated to the Beinecke Library.
The collection has been divided among four libraries based on their collecting strengths -- the Railroad Museum in Strasburg, PA; the California State Railroad Museum in Sacramento; Barriger Library at the University of Missouri; and the Electric Railroader's Association.
But both were methodical in their collecting.
And these days, it's not just indie labels releasing new titles or reissues on vinyl for their collecting clientele.
Palm sap gatherers should be encouraged to put bamboo covers on their collecting jars to keep bats out, Dr. Olival said.
But as their taste and interest in photography evolved, they began to focus their collecting on the use of black-and-white photography in contemporary art.
For example, a tropical-bird lover will go to the Web to search for stamps bearing such images, even if the collectors are casual about their collecting.
Honeymooning in Bermuda, they were captivated by the pottery and porcelain they saw in antiques shops, giving rise to both their collecting passion and their first book.
Rather, he talks of letters from Ebay customers who say their lives have been changed because the company has let them turn their collecting hobbies into careers.
Students competing for the book collecting prize submit an annotated bibliography and an essay on their collecting efforts, the influence of mentors, the experience of searching for, organizing and caring for items, and the future direction of the collection.
The Museum of Modern Art in New York houses a Provenance Research Project which focuses on Nazi Era looted works of art, as is appropriate for their collecting scope of modern art.
