Chess books
We didn't meet more than a dozen times, nor exchange more than a handful of phone calls, but in one of them, over a decade ago, Divinsky expressed a wish to see his chess library go to good use, he hoped as a library or as part of a library. It would have required some strengthening of the CFC for them to take up that gauntlet, but as we know, CFC rather went in the opposite direction. I do not know if he ever came up with a solution. If he did come up with a solution, it might be reflected in his Will, or in verbal wishes to his family.
UBC Library had a small collection of chess material, but I recall that in 1975 when I left Vancouver they weren't interested to the extent of agreeing not to dispose of books that might be donated to them. Divinsky, however, had a much nicer collection--and librarians can change too.
Accessioning and deaccessioning can be a whimsical enterprise. At the local library, they had a small number of library-binding books by Science Fiction colossus Philip K. Dick. One year, I found a couple of those volumes in the discard pile at the library sale. A decade later, I noted that the library had purchased a paperback of one of the same titles. The donor of a fabulous chess library might want the recipient to be "retentive" about the collection.
We didn't meet more than a dozen times, nor exchange more than a handful of phone calls, but in one of them, over a decade ago, Divinsky expressed a wish to see his chess library go to good use, he hoped as a library or as part of a library. It would have required some strengthening of the CFC for them to take up that gauntlet, but as we know, CFC rather went in the opposite direction. I do not know if he ever came up with a solution. If he did come up with a solution, it might be reflected in his Will, or in verbal wishes to his family.
UBC Library had a small collection of chess material, but I recall that in 1975 when I left Vancouver they weren't interested to the extent of agreeing not to dispose of books that might be donated to them. Divinsky, however, had a much nicer collection--and librarians can change too.
Accessioning and deaccessioning can be a whimsical enterprise. At the local library, they had a small number of library-binding books by Science Fiction colossus Philip K. Dick. One year, I found a couple of those volumes in the discard pile at the library sale. A decade later, I noted that the library had purchased a paperback of one of the same titles. The donor of a fabulous chess library might want the recipient to be "retentive" about the collection.
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