I love this idea - and it's green too!
Moira
Anne Haas <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>We could even just offer these dups for postage—most of our dups came to
>us gratis...and everyone’s budgets are being cut!!
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>Anne
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>Anne B. Haas
>Art Librarian
>Bowdoin College
>9300 College Station
>Brunswick, Maine 04011
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>On 2/26/09 2:34 PM, "Mitchell, Beverly" <[
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>This idea is an interesting one, Sheila.
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>How about creating a wiki page where ARLIS members can list their
>duplicate copies and their contact information?
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>Beverly
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>Beverly Mitchell
>Hamon Arts Library
>Southern Methodist University
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>From: ART LIBRARIES SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [[ mailto:[log in to unmask]
>]mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sheila A. Cork
>Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2009 10:53 AM
>To: [ fcp:[log in to unmask],[log in to unmask]
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>Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Replacement costs for oot-of-print art books
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> Perhaps we could put together a sub-group of ARLIS members who do have
>duplicate copies for sale?
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> I listed the library here as a seller on Abebooks.com - I have a lot of
>unwanted duplicates and not all of them are listed there. I would be
>happy to have people ask if I have books they would like.
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> SAC
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> Sheila A. Cork
> Librarian
> New Orleans Museum of Art
> City Park
> 1 Collins Diboll Circle
> P.O. Box 19123
> New Orleans, LA 70179-0123
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> --- On Mon, 2/23/09, Raymond Smith <[
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> Subject: [ARLIS-L] Replacement costs for oot-of-print art books
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> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 11:59 AM
> I very much sympathize with Kathy's situation.
> Some of our member booksellers (such as myself, a member since 1980),
>deal in rare and out-of-print art reference material.
> Before committing to purchasing an expensive item on line from an
>unknown source, why not post your request on the ARLIS chat line?
> For example, I have about 17,000 titles catalogued on line, but
>over 35,000 others which are not. Some of the prices of ABE vendors are
>appallingly high, notably one outfit which invariably has rather common
>art books and catalogues priced ten to twenty times what anyone else has
>it for. A catalogue which I just listed for $10 is available from them
>for $177, for example; a second vendor, following his lead has it at $99.
> But it's not worth much more than $10 or $20. Some of the other vendors
>who no nothing about art undercut his price by half, but it's still five
>time what the price should be.
> I'm sure that those of us who are bookseller members welcome
>desiderata lists from institutional members and are more than willing to
>offer material if available. We also have the expertise to recognize
>what is rare and valuable and what is not. By posting your wants on the
>chat line, it would be an inexpensive and perhaps fruitful way of
>reciprocating bookseller members for their support of the organization
>through their exhibiting at conferences and sponsorship of special travel
>awards and prizes. By appealing to bookseller ARLIS members, it may save
>you or your students some of the huge expense in replacing out-of-print
>books when you buy from untrustworthy and inexperienced sources.
> Raymond Smith
> R.W. Smith Bookseller
> New Haven
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> From: Kathy Edwards <[ mailto:[log in to unmask]
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> Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 10:52 AM
> Subject: [ARLIS-L] Policy when it comes to expensive/hard-to-replace
>books?
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> Does your library have a policy regarding the circulation of unusually
>expensive resources? If yes, how do you balance access and control?
>Last semester one of our in-demand books went missing from a design
>studio. Although we acquired it for about $65 several years ago, in the
>intervening years the now out-of-print book has become scarce. The
>graduate student who checked it out and shared it with studiomates during
>the semester is now facing a replacement bill of $300+ --and that’s for a
>used copy. This is on my mind because I’m about to order a similarly
>expensive resource that will likely see a lot of use, and my fiscally
>prudish impulse is to restrict it to the reference shelf! Kathy
>Edwards Arts & Architecture Reference Gunnin Architecture Library 112 Lee
>Hall, Clemson University Clemson SC 29634 (864) 656-4289 [
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