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Our financial administrators have decided to switch over to the system of
accrual accounting, which means everything we "own" has to be given some
monetary value as assets. While the curators are wrestling with the
valuation of art works, I have to find out what our library stock is worth.
As an art museum library over 100 years old, we have the usual monographs
(27,000 volumes), periodicals, sales catalogues and ephemera, and odds and
ends. There would be some old and rare books in this lot.

Has anybody done this particular exercise? If so, can you please tell me how
you went about it?

Many thanks for any help you can give.
Ms. Jin Whittington, Librarian
Art Gallery of South Australia
Research Library
North Terrace
Adelaide, SA 5000
Australia
Tel: (08) 8207 7042    Fax: (08) 8207 7070
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