[Milton-L] Milton & The Watchtower in libraries

[Patrick Scott]

John Hale asks:

Do libraries take it [The Watchtower], and on what basis do they decide?

According to WorldCat (admittedly incomplete but plausible as an
indicator),
75 libraries using the OCLC system have The Watchtower (founded 1879,
though very few have a run including the early years).

However, only 15 of those are ARL libraries, even when you allow a
related theological library to count as part of the ARL library's
holdings. My own library, for instance, has only the Sept 15, 2007 issue
(in the Milton collection). 

By contrast, WorldCat shows 601 libraries with Milton Quarterly, and 314
with Milton Newsletter, almost all university or college libraries.  

Patrick Scott
Director of Special Collections, 
Thomas Cooper Library,
& Professor of English,
University of South Carolina,
Columbia, SC 29208, USA.
Tel: 803-777-1275
Fax: 803-777-4661, attn Dr Scott
E-mail: scottp at gwm.sc.edu