Out-of-Print and Special Collection Materials - Acquisition and Purchasing Options (Hardcover)

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

General

Imprint:	Routledge Member of the Taylor and Francis Group
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	August 2002
First published:	2002
Authors:	Linda S. Katz
Dimensions:	222 x 159 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-0-7890-1674-4
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Library & information sciences > Acquisitions & collection development
LSN:	0-7890-1674-5
Barcode:	9780789016744

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