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Out-of-Print and Special Collection Materials : Acquisitions and Purchasing Options

Acquisitions and Purchasing Options

By: Linda S Katz

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Hardcover | 1 December 2001 | Edition Number 1

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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 from a variety of sources. The book serves as a comprehensive reference for professionals and students alike, drawing on the experiences of the foremost archivists in their fields.
The book offers a unique assortment of specialized essays, informative and instructive. The assembled collectors are your guides on a journey in search of rare items--through specialty catalogs and special circumstances, libraries and bookshops, collections and book stocks--through the print underground of the acquisitions world. Topics range from the basics of acquisitions, to setting (and sticking to) a budget, building a collection, determining the market value of out-of-print materials, and more detailed looks at individual areas of research.
Experienced archivists and budding collectors will find indispensable information on a variety of vital topics in this book, including:

out-of-print music
underground poetry
acquisitions outside the United States
planning a collection
hard-to-find materials on science, technology, and medicine
out-of-print literature

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Non-Fiction Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Encyclopaedias & Reference Works Reference Works Bibliographies, Catalogues Library & Info Sciences Library Acquisitions & Collection Development Library & Information Services

Introduction	p. 1
The Acquisition of Out-of-Print Music	p. 5
Underground Poetry, Collecting Poetry, and the Librarian	p. 17
Books from Abroad, One Collection Development Strategy	p. 27
Acquisitions in the James Ford Bell Library	p. 35
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: A Tale of Special Collections in the Small Academic Library	p. 41
Using Older Materials in Support of Teaching	p. 53
Acquiring Materials in the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine	p. 57
Four Factors Influencing the Fair Market Value of Out-of-Print Books: Part 1	p. 71
Four Factors Influencing the Fair Market Value of Out-of Print Books: Part 2	p. 79
Gifts to a Science Academic Librarian	p. 87
Books on Demand: Just-in-Time Acquisitions	p. 95
Twenty Years of the Literature on Acquiring Out-of-Print Materials	p. 109
Index	p. 121
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Out-of-Print and Special Collection Materials : Acquisitions and Purchasing Options

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