Research Catalog

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 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

Business of library acquisitions.

Subject

• Acquisitions (Libraries)
• Acquisitions (Libraries) > Accounting
• Libraries and booksellers
• Libraries and publishing
• Library Administration
• Library Technical Services
• Library materials > Prices

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

0838905366 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^90033772^

OCLC

21373275

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library