RE: Preservation Photocopying Question

[wboomgaa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dear Sara and fellow PADGers:

  Many of you may respond to this one, but I'd go on the record to
recommend our practice here:

1) Give great creedence to the opinions of our friends in Acquisition.
Their experience in dealing with shady dealers, who are really criminals if
we're frank about it, must be listened to.

2) Photocopy and/or film according to the needs of your readers without
remorse.

Sincerely,

Wes Boomgaarden
Preservation Officer
Ohio State Univ. Libraries
Columbus


In Message Mon, 28 Jul 1997 16:33:13 -0600 (MDT),
  WILLIAMS SARA R <Sara.Williams@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>
>The following situation has come up a couple of times in my department,
>and I'd appreciate any advice or suggestions from the group:
>
>We make a limited number of photocopy replacements for brittle books every
>year. As part of the process, my technician does a careful search to
>determine if any reprints are available.
>
>Occasionally we will find a reprint listed in BIP, but the reprint press
>is one that our Acquisitions Dept. doesn't trust to ever come through on
>the order. There are, in fact, a couple of these firms with which they
>absolutely refuse to do business.
>
>In such a situation, what would you do?
>
> 1) Insist that Acquisitions go through the motions of ordering the
>reprint, just to demonstrate that you'd made a good faith effort to
>acquire the commercial copy?
>
> 2) Go ahead and photocopy without bothering to order from the
>unreliable vendor?
>
>This problem doesn't come up often enough to be a major problem, but it
>does occur. Any advice would be welcome.
>
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>Sara R. Williams   Phone:  (303) 492-3849
>Head, Preservation Department  FAX: (303) 492-0494
>University Libraries   Sara.Williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Campus Box 184
>University of Colorado - Boulder
>Boulder CO  80309-0184
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