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Hi All, I was asked an interesting question today by my colleagues and realized I didn't really know the answer -- We are two art museums (one dedicated to photography, the other to contemporary art) with a photography library that complements our photography collections. Our curators are regularly sent books, totally unsolicited, by artists who are hoping to impress them and get exhibitions/acquisitions out of it. If these are books we don't want for our library, what can we do with them? Specifically, the question I was asked is whether it would be appropriate to sell them in the museum's bookstore. There seems to be a lot of messiness at play here -- the mission of a museum shop (and thus whether these books reflect an educational/complementary component of our mission, etc.), what the intention of these submissions were and how they should be treated, etc., etc. So I guess what I'm asking is: what do the rest of you do with these books? And would you advise for/against the idea of trying to sell them in a museum store? With thanks, Leigh -- Leigh Gleason, CA Curator of Collections California Museum of Photography at UCR ARTSblock 3824 Main St. Riverside, CA 92501 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mail submissions to [log in to unmask] For information about joining ARLIS/NA see: http://www.arlisna.org/membership/join-arlisna Send administrative matters (file requests, subscription requests, etc) to [log in to unmask] ARLIS-L Archives and subscription maintenance: http://lsv.arlisna.org Questions may be addressed to list owner (Judy Dyki) at: [log in to unmask] ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~