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Understanding the Business of Library Acquisitions
author
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Schmidt, Karen A.
publisher
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ALA Editions of the American Library Association
isbn10 | asin
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0838907415
print isbn13
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9780838907412
ebook isbn13
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9780585310800
language
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English
subject
Acquisitions (Libraries)--United States.
publication date
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1999
lcc
:
Z689.5.U6U53 1999eb
ddc
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025.2
subject
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Acquisitions (Libraries)--United States.
Page i
Understanding the Business of Library Acquisitions
Second Edition
Karen A. Schmidt Editor
Page ii
While extensive effort has gone into ensuring the reliability of information appearing in this book, the publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, on the accuracy or reliability of the information, and does not assume and hereby disclaims any liability to any person for any loss or damage caused by errors or omissions in this publication.
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Printed on 50-pound Windsor White Offset, a pH-neutral stock, and bound in 10-point coated cover stock by McNaughton & Gunn
The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Understanding the business of library acquisitions / Karen A. Schmidt, editor. 2nd ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8389-0741-5 1. Acquisitions (Libraries)United States. I. Schmidt, Karen A. Z689.5.U6U53 1998 025.2dc21 98-41701
Copyright 1999 by the American Library Association. All rights reserved except those which may be granted by Sections 107 and 108 of the Copyright Revision Act of 1976.
Printed in the United States of America.
03 02 01 00 99 5 4 3 2 1
Page iii
Contents
Introduction
Karen A. Schmidt
v
1 Acquisitions, the Organization, and the Future
Carol Pitts Diedrichs and Karen A. Schmidt
1
2 The Business of Book Publishing
Patricia Glass Schuman and Charles Harmon
12
3 The Business of Scholarly Journal Publishing
Gary J. Brown
33
4 Publishers, Vendors, Libraries: Troublesome Issues in the Triangle
Audrey Melkin
48
5 The Cost of Service: Understanding the Business of Vendors
Scott Alan Smith
59
6 Vendor Selection: Service, Cost, and More Service!
Mary K. McLaren
75
7 Vendor Evaluation
Karen E. Cargille
90
8 Selecting and Acquiring Materials from Abroad
Thomas D. Kilton
100
9 Approval Plans: Library-Vendor Partnerships for Acquisitions and Collection Development
Joan Grant
143
10 Acquiring Serials
James R. Mouw
157
11 Out-of-Print and Antiquarian Markets
Margaret Landesman
179
12 Gifts and Exchanges
Steven Carrico
205
Page iv
13 Non-print Trading
Y. Peter Liu
224
14 Outsourcing Acquisitions: Methods and Models
Glenda Alvin
262
15 Basic Acquisitions Accounting and Business Practice
Kay Granskog
285
16 Payment Ethics: Librarians as Consumers
Corrie Marsh
321
17 Ethics in Acquisitions Management
Barbara J. Winters
335
18 Acquisitions Personnel Management, Organization, and Staffing Issues
Lisa German
346
19 Licensing in Lieu of Acquiring
Trisha L. Davis
360
Index
381
Page v
Introduction
The decade of the 1990s has been an exciting and challenging time for the acquisitions librarian. We have seen budgets drastically reduced and our creativity and good business sense sorely tested to find ways to stretch our library's material budget. We have absorbed electronic products, licensing, and new players and producers of material who have not always been knowledgeable about the library world. We have taken on integrated automated systems that have turned some of us into quasi-catalogers. Our work has been outsourced and our staff reduced or reengineered into new configurations that would be barely recognizable to an acquisitions librarian of just a few decades ago.
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