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libraries also have their private parts. The inner circle of discrete-treated management techniques is a question that we booksellers burning as managers and providers of old books are interested in:
To what extent, under what conditions and in which differentiation from neighboring disciplines, when and with what budget are missing titles for the retrospective supplement was wanted by the libraries and purchased?
For personal demand in the rooms of the officers - in small libraries tuts have a chat with the secretary - one experiences usually willing details would, after all, the friendly and embarrassed usually due to clever speaker of the field to stage the antiquarian compared to games of hide. Talks in libraries are among my happiest memories.
entirely different story if you ask in writing or even with the announcement of a publication to data acquisition policy in the strict sense - twisted, hazy slacker estates are still the best to hope for results to come mostly saugrobe, offensive in its brevity Rejections by email back to letters as a rule - nothing, silence.
I am referring to his own small test series, which I made several years ago. Today we might hope that it will have a careful and thoughtful angel wobbled work project of this nature a little more success.
The reasons for maintaining a restricted zone in all acquisition matters are obvious. First there is a degree of S cham, well here the main obstacle to freedom of information policy. Many libraries, you know, willy-nilly have to slash their budget. If, for example in the field of science and medicine, international journal publishing drones and series subscriptions with annual batches of 20,000 € and later sell - the work was a mockery as often financed by the government - then is the last item on the still save some money, the acquisition of antiquarian titles.
The notes are not so (who already looks on the retrospective collection building from the outside?), And any reassurance of a culturally interested public to buy one or two spectacular titles, leading possibly to a small press release. Then, already looks to do no more, if the library has met its obligation to the retrospective collection development in the breadth and depth.
The big budget totals yes you can read everywhere, usually so we know the often remarkable total budget. But how shabbily it in individual fields sometimes approaching, this may be not black and white issue.
is another reason for Informationsverhehlung in the technical difficulty with the big books databases deal. We must, we will make it simply, the German-speaking region of at least two search engines work and the ZVAB book finder. Because the ridiculous, and completely inadequate in every way useless indexing in all sales book database the acquisition could proceed only library agree so as to their own canon the requested books in the two databases would query.
That's not to even by the sheer time ago an impossibility, the very fact that a retrospective overall list was probably not created as a rule, we therefore, with certain exceptions, may indicate not off the cuff, corresponding to a missing. - This mess we are but do not like, she reveals an embarrassing gap in the operating system.
A third can not be concealed. The library is afraid, not without reason that the booksellers, the missing items are calculated once, for they use this lovely position and pharmacy pricing. As far as I look over the situation, Such concerns may apply only for the really rare and high-quality relics. Not least because the Internet has leveled off for lower and middle title a reasonable price level, it is "by saying" what a not exorbitant cost arf an accident.
Long story short: we must, if we approach them with requests for information in the delicate area of the acquisition policies of libraries, do not expect a gushing fountain of talkativeness.
Perhaps there is a way by which we can cut through the Gordian knot? I think so. Sitting in the library best practice, many officers would be left with an excellent professional bookseller can operate. From the daily experience we can offer libraries acquired the booksellers following model:
The antiquarian notes as to which titles the library missing. which he requires of course a very accurate acquisition profile, it should not be fobbed off with the detailed, but often outdated or real closed leaflets of the I & D system, or even the SDD contractor. Let's say it clearly -
If the antiquarian his own time, he has not stolen applies to active research in the interest of a library, then it is the least that this library is stocked with an * exact * acquisition profiles.
As long as the library call that the booksellers are not met, they can expect from any colleague that he compares its offerings for hours with their stocks.
other hand, we understand well and accept it if the subject specialist are neither precise budget figures for its purchase of supplies or even rules communicated what could increase its interest in buying. We need the speakers or the transferee agency so full freedom - left, so they may seek only the most basic fundamentals - including the freedom of information. We
the booksellers could in theory also make inquiries about the series by KVK. For a number of reasons to show the lack of space here, but it is inevitable that with
* single * single query and offer, based on only a specific library,
being worked on.
The library provided to us by her most accurate retrospective acquisition profile and the access of the most complete database for each of them. They are not always the big national collection catalogs.
In a very valuable additional heading us, the library features of their stock, tell of the acquisition is currently excluded areas, etc.. Otherwise, dead ends and nightmares for the antiquarian can not be avoided. For example, if Tübingen, a from memory contrived example, the collection area theology, the popular theology, popular piety, therefore, exclude, then the antiquarian know exactly what should be included and what is not before he happily centuries-old devotional and prayer books to offer and then receives only refusals. Or, to come to the specific, I own about 1000 German-language titles with Alsatian origin, which are lacking in the German library, often at all in Germany, in Leipzig, but they - do not acquire - contrary to their collective order. To find such constraints and restrictions is very important in helping the colleague is not for nothing abzappelt.
The consideration the antiquarian Auskunftswilligkeit for the library must be that he its offers more or less exclusively directed to the library. One can expect any officer, he should - usually very time consuming - orders creation, prove to be sold for half as already . The librarian will understand if the antiquarian, in turn, in return, a deadline for the processing of his offer establishes.
Conclusion: I think it makes sense to consult libraries, especially technical libraries of all types, archives and museums to acquisition profiles and information on existing now or later Ankaufswilligkeit. The people do today with email inquiries. This then the usual spam and other doomsday scenarios, it is worthwhile to take into account, as the postage burden otherwise would amount to several thousand euros. Also, the query can only be done gradually.
I see the following areas:
first
The great libraries, state and university libraries. Here it is the many small fields but acquisition of the complex installations, which often labyrinths same tease out, so to speak. Whether this is successful, must be seen.
second
The city and community libraries. One of us usually woefully neglected field. A surprising number of smaller libraries have locally acquisition-related requests, which go far beyond the "home" concept.
third
university departments, including those not shown separately library. Here would be to consider whether the existing high school directories, excellent instruments, enough for now.
4th
libraries, corporate and government libraries outside the universities. A very important sector that is used by the antiquarians, unfortunately, most often treated as to be secreted Safe knowledge. Here, transparency is created.
5th
museums and archives. A wide, especially in retrospective offers a very rewarding field. Here is to ask important to investigate how computer recording the book stocks has been carried out.
Other interesting questions follow, such as the operation of the magazine division - the journal database is one of the bestfunktionierendsten instruments of the library system, their use by libraries in the acquisition but downright disorganized awful, offensive inconsistency and for offering antiquarian, exempla docent.
The thus resulting list must, which is generally the first condition that we receive from the libraries of information will be made available to everyone immediately after receiving the relevant data into the net, free and ad-free.
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