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Our policy currently is:
“If a book is lost or severely damaged, the replacement cost of the book, plus a $25 processing fee will be charged.
If the lost item is irreplaceable through normal channels (such as book dealers on the internet), a fee of $300 will be charged.”
That $300 is an arbitrary amount. The inquiry tells me to re-think it!
As a relatively small library with a small user base, we have only had to call on this 3 times in the past 10 years, and all were
easily replaceable books. Two of the “culprits” actually went out and bought us new books, graciously handing them over with apologies.
Heather Brodhead
Librarian
Constance & George Fearing Library
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
www.sbma.net
(805) 884-6451
Library open to the public Tue, Wed, Thu 1-5 PM;
Librarian's hours 10-noon; 1-5:30 on those days.
From: ARLIS/NA List [mailto:
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2013 12:55 PM
To:
Subject: [ARLIS-L] Identifying Expensive, Out-of-print Books
Dear ARLIS/NA Colleagues:
I am doing some research for our head of collections here at University of Washington Bothell on how to go about identifying books within our collection that are now out-of-print and, for that reason, have increased in value. I can imagine that this is quite
an issue with art monographs in particular, so I'm wondering if you or your institution might have a process in place to identify these books.
We had an incident here recently where a student returned a book that was significantly damaged and not salvageable, and when we looked at the current price it was something like $600, as it was no longer in print (but our standard fee for damaged books is
significantly less). We’d like to avoid this in the future and instead send books such as these to our Special Collections unit in
Any ideas or advice would be most welcome!
All the best,
Heather Gillanders, MFA, MLIS
Research & Instruction Librarian
UW Libraries, Bothell Campus Library
Serving UW Bothell and
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