Description
Book SynopsisAn 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 t
Table of Contents
- 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
