Colleagues,
I wondered if anyone has dealt with (or thought about) a recent Christie's
auction catalog development that we are trying to decide how to handle?
Auction catalog subscribers have always been mailed the price list (in a
smallish, neatly printed, usually single-leaf format) for lots sold at a
given auction several weeks after the auction has taken place. The usual
procedure for subscribing libraries has been to tip the price list into the
corresponding catalog and then shelve it in its permanent location.
However, Christie's appears to have stopped mailing price lists and is now
asking subscribers to print the desired lists directly from its website,
where they have been made available, perhaps only temporarily. The problem
with this is that the price lists print out into an awkward, multi-page, 8 ½
x 11 format. One either has to trim them and then tip in three to five
leaves (per price list) or, possibly, make a pocket for each auction catalog
to hold the folded price list pages.
Either method seems time-consuming and expensive. Is there any simple
solution we're missing that will make the price data easily available to
readers?
(Apologies if I missed a prior discussion of this issue.)
Thanks in advance for any good advice,
Alex
Alex Ross
Head Librarian
Art & Architecture Library
102 Cummings Art Building
Stanford University
Stanford, CA 94305-2018
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