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[[underlined]] A PROPOSED GIFT: [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] THE DIBNER LIBRARY [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] The Proposed Gift [[/underlined]]

Dr. Bern Dibner, founder of the Burndy Corporation in Norwalk, Connecticut proposes to make a gift to the Smithsonian Institution for the National Museum of History and Technology, of a collection of books, incunabula, manuscripts and related materials on the history of science and technology, to be transferred physically and in title upon it acceptance by the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, and the provision of adequate space and facilities to house it.

The items in the gift are to be identified by bookplate as the Dibner Library or the Dibner Collection, and those components for general circulation are to be integrated with the Museum's holdings of works in the history of science and technology, so that it will become of maximum use to the Museum staff and visiting scholars and students. Manuscripts and those parts of the collection which are in the category of rare books will be maintained in special rare book vaults having all the provisions required for their maintenance.

Such a gift was originally suggested to Dr. Dibner by Silvio A. Bedini, Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology, in a letter dated November 6, 1972. Dr. Dibner not