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Dear ARLIS/NA Colleagues:

I'd just like to thank you all for your terrific responses to my query below. As requested by several of you, I am in the process of synthesizing the responses that I've received, and I will be happy to share out what I've learned. What I can say at this point is that I was not able to identify a systematic process for identifying expensive, out-of-print books. That said however, I did gather some really helpful tips as well as a number of additional things to consider when thinking about this issue. This topic may very well warrant further conversation.

Thanks again and more to come!

All the best,

Heather Gillanders

Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:54:48 -0800
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Subject: [ARLIS-L] Identifying Expensive, Out-of-print Books
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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 Seattle, but we’re not sure how best to go about identifying these books in our collection.

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 Cascadia Community College


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