Out-Of-Print and Special Collection Materials Acquisition and Purchasing Options |
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Author:
| Katz, Linda S. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7890-1674-4 |
Publication Date: | Aug 2002 |
Publisher: | Routledge
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | AUD $106.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
More DescriptionAn 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