[PW] Looking for a set of books

[Golomb, Liorah]

The Whole Earth Catalog and its supplements?

Liorah Golomb, PhD, MLS
Assistant Professor and Humanities Librarian
Wichita State University
1845 Fairmount
Wichita, KS 67260
316.978.5077

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From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On Behalf Of Jennifer Gregory
Sent: Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:04 AM
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Subject: [PW] Looking for a set of books

Hello!

I've gotten another one of those "I-don't-know-the-title-or-the-author" questions.  Here's what the patron had to say:

"I am looking for a set of books from the sixties that tell you how to do everything. Like from making a forge to making medicines. It was a set of books or series.  They are not the firefox series.  I just found out about it from TV.  I remember them being done about the time of the bay of pigs, they were done out of the fear that the world would end due to nuclear war.....more like a how to series.  The idea of them is to keep us out of the dark ages.

"I have asked older people a professor in a college, and she check the library there, I remember seeing them at one of my customers houses years ago.  she checked with the library at WVU bluefeild WV."

The patron believes that the title(s) did *not* include the words "how to."

So, any ideas?

Thanks much!
Jennifer

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