Out-of-Print and Special Collection Materials: Acquisition and Purchasing Options (Acquisitions Librarian, Vol 14, No. 27) - Hardcover

Katz, Linda S

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0789016745 ISBN 13: 9780789016744

Publisher: Routledge, 2002

Synopsis

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

About this title

From Booklist:

An associate professor of library and information studies, University of Oklahoma, and former curator of a history of science library has compiled 12 articles by scholars and practicing librarians on the practical aspects of acquiring difficult-to-obtain materials, including out-of-print music, underground poetry, and foreign items. Two chapters address the pricing of out-of-print items. Two others discuss the impact of gifts and on-demand acquisition on collection development. The role of "older materials" in the support of teaching and descriptions of special materials acquisitions for the history of science round out the volume, along with the editor's overview of out-of-print acquisitions literature of the past 20 years. This volume has been copublished simultaneously as issue no. 27 of The Acquisitions Librarian. Collection development librarians and students who don't get The Acquisitions Librarian will want to check it out. RBB
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About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0789016745
• ISBN 13: 9780789016744
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136