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Understanding the business of library acquisitions

Title: Understanding the business of library acquisitions / Karen A. Schmidt, editor.
Publication: Chicago : American Library Association, 1990.

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Additional Authors

Schmidt, Karen A.

Description

xiv, 322 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

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Bibliography (note)

Contents

The business of publishing / Kathy Flanagan -- Publishers, vendors, libraries : troublesome issues in the triangle / Audrey Melkin -- The business of scholarly journal publishing / Gary J. Brown -- Taking the mystery out of European book pricing / Jana K. Stevens -- Publishing and export bookselling in Western Europe / James Campbell -- The cost of service : understanding the business of vendors / Scott A. Smith -- The "E's" of vendor selection : an archetype for selection, evaluation, and sustenance / Gay N. Dannelly -- Evaluating the work of a vendor / Marion T. Reid -- Vendor-library relations : the ethics of working with vendors / Donna Goehner -- Approval plans : the vendor as preselector / Joan Grant -- Gifts and exchanges / Mae Clark -- Out-of-print and secondhand markets / Margaret Landesman -- Acquisition of books from Australia, with a brief reference to New Zealand and Oceania / Juliet Flesch -- The nonprint trades / Charles Forrest -- Acquiring special formats / Joan Mancell Hayes -- Basic acquisitions accounting / Betsy Kruger -- Accounting and business practices / William Z. Schenck.
(cont.) Payment ethics : librarians as consumers / Corrie Marsh.

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90033772

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries