That might be fun, but - how do I start a Wiki, I never done that before and would like to learn how.
SAC
Sheila A. Cork
Librarian
New Orleans Museum of Art
City Park
1 Collins Diboll Circle
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70179-0123
504-658-4117
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--- On Thu, 2/26/09, Mitchell, Beverly <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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Subject: RE: [ARLIS-L] Replacement costs for oot-of-print art books
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Date: Thursday, February 26, 2009, 1:34 PM
This idea is an interesting one, Sheila.
How about creating a wiki page where ARLIS members can list
their duplicate copies and their contact information?
Beverly
Beverly Mitchell
Hamon Arts Library
Southern Methodist University
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SOCIETY DISCUSSION LIST [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Sheila
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Subject: Re: [ARLIS-L] Replacement costs for oot-of-print art books
Perhaps we could put together a sub-group of ARLIS members
who do have duplicate copies for sale?
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.
SAC
Sheila A. Cork
Librarian
New Orleans Museum of Art
City Park
1 Collins Diboll Circle
P.O. Box 19123
New Orleans, LA 70179-0123
504-658-4117
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From: 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
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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?
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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