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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- 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
