Out-of-Print and Special Collection Materials

<p>An invaluable how-to for librarians and archivists--inside insights from leading collectors!This essential guide to the acquisition process covers every aspect of the search for hard-to-find materials. Out-of-Print and Special Collection Materials: Acquisition and Purchasing Options is a handbook of traditional and not-so-traditional methods for identifying locating and acquiring rare items from a variety of sources. The book serves as a comprehensive reference for professionals and students alike drawing on the experiences of the foremost archivists in their fields.The book offers a unique assortment of specialized essays informative and instructive. The assembled collectors are your guides on a journey in search of rare items--through specialty catalogs and special circumstances libraries and bookshops collections and book stocks--through the print underground of the acquisitions world. Topics range from the basics of acquisitions to setting (and sticking to) a budget building a collection determining the market value of out-of-print materials and more detailed looks at individual areas of research.Experienced archivists and budding collectors will find indispensable information on a variety of vital topics in this book including:</p><ul> <li> out-of-print music </li> <li> underground poetry </li> <li> acquisitions outside the United States </li> <li> planning a collection </li> <li> hard-to-find materials on science technology and medicine </li> <li> out-of-print literature</li> </ul>