1st Edition

Out-of-Print and Special Collection Materials Acquisition and Purchasing Options

By Linda S Katz Copyright 2002
136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

136 Pages
by Routledge

An invaluable how-to for librarians and archivists--inside insights from leading collectors! This essential guide to the acquisition process covers every aspect of the search for hard-to-find materials. Out-of-Print and Special Collection Materials: Acquisition and Purchasing Options is a handbook of traditional and not-so-traditional methods for identifying, locating, and acquiring rare items... Read more
  • Introduction
  • The Acquisition of Out-of-Print Music
  • Underground Poetry, Collecting Poetry, and the Librarian
  • Books from Abroad, One Collection Development Strategy
  • Acquisitions in the James Ford Bell Library
  • Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: A Tale of Special Collections in the Small Academic Library
  • Using Older Materials in Support of Teaching
  • Acquiring Materials in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
  • Four Factors Influencing the Fair Market Value of Out-of-Print Books: Part 1
  • Four Factors Influencing the Fair Market Value of Out-of-Print Books: Part 2
  • Gifts to a Science Academic Librarian
  • Books on Demand: Just-in-Time Acquisitions
  • Twenty Years of the Literature on Acquiring Out-of-Print Materials
  • Index
  • Reference Notes Included

Biography

Katz, Linda S