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--- resources:hpb:content:mendham_collection [2013/08/25 14:20] – created shaw
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 The computer files for the printed catalogue were converted so that the records could be consulted electronically. They have been loaded on to the HPB database and also  on to the OPAC of the University of Kent where they can be consulted together with the records for the other collections of Canterbury Cathedral.
-In 2012 the Law Society announced its intention to sell the Mendham Collection. In July 2012, Sotheby's took away 300 of the most valuable books to sell at auction. Attempts were made to prevent the sale but an appeal to the Charity Commission was unsuccessful and following further unsuccessful legal steps, the first tranche of the sale took place on 5 June 2013. The4 future of the remaining volumes in the collection is currently uncertain. CERL intends to retain the file of the Mendham Collection on the HPB database as a record of a historic collection which has now been partly dispersed.
+In 2012 the Law Society announced its intention to sell the Mendham Collection. In July 2012, Sotheby's took away 300 of the most valuable books to sell at auction. Attempts were made to prevent the sale but an appeal to the Charity Commission was unsuccessful and following further unsuccessful legal steps, the first tranche of the sale took place on 5 June 2013. The future of the remaining volumes in the collection is currently uncertain. CERL intends to retain the file of the Mendham Collection on the HPB database as a record of a historic collection which has now been partly dispersed.
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