For Future Reference
With the new year launching our book to an uncertain fate, I thought it wise to utilize
the Brooklyn Public Library e-reference service to secure some answers about the future.
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From: AskALibrarian@oclc.org
Date: Dec 31, 2007 1:57 PM
Subject: Library Question – Answer [Question #3030396]
To: julia@deaccession.org
Hello Julia Weist
Question History:
Patron: I am interested in learning about my future.
I don’t want to study THE FUTURE (like, of the planet) but instead I want to consult a reference
source about what is going to happen to me, specifically. And only non-fiction, no fiction please.
Where should I direct my search?
Thanks very much!
Librarian 1: Dear Brooklyn Public Library User:
As far as we know, there isn’t such a reference source.
Please consider contacting the
American Society for Psychical Research, Inc.
5 West 73rd Street
New York, New York 10023
USA
phone (212) 799-5050 / fax (212) 496-2497
email aspr@aspr.com
According to Associations Unlimited, this organization was
“Founded: 1885. Members: 2000. Membership Dues: individual, $70 annual; joint, $75 annual; fellow,
$100 annual; student/senior citizen, $45 annual; fellow (life), $2,500 annual; patron (life), $5,000 annual;
founder, $10,000; benefactor, $50,000 . Staff: 6. Budget: $300,000. Description: Investigates and disseminates
information about exceptional human abilities such as extended perception, telepathy, precognition, psychokinesis
(mind over matter), automatic writing and other forms of automatism, psychometry, psychic healing, dreams,
clairvoyance, clairaudience, mediumship and survival, and other unclassified parapsychological phenomena.
Works to collect, classify, study, and publish firsthand reports of these phenomena.”
We appreciate your inquiry.
Brooklyn Public Library/mas
—JW 1/1/08