no.1864 (Revised)-RETROSPECTIVE COLLECTION DVLP. (Responses #1-2)

[Original posting on this topic appeared in COLLDV-L no. 1858 and is
reproduced below; the responses follows it.]

From: Susan Morville <smorvill_at_si.umich.edu>

Does anyone know of any tools, automated or print, that could help in
retrospective collection development?  We are trying to collect some of
the important titles from the 70's and 80's that we might have missed.
We have Books for College Libraries and I have talked to the people from
Amigos.  Any other suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Susan Morville
Collection Development
Adrian College
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(1) From: Kent Mulliner <mulliner_at_ohiou.edu>

	Having just gone through an approval plan RFP, a number
of the major vendors identified this as something for which they
could prepare slips (I think that Academic Book Center has done
it for the new Florida Gulf Coast Univ. and we have had Blackwell's
Book Services do it for us in special subject areas).

	Kent Mulliner, Ohio University Libraries

K. Mulliner       Collection Development Coordinator & Asst. to Dean
Ohio University Libraries    	Phone: 740-593-2707
Athens, OH 45701-2978, USA	FAX:    740-593-2708
mulliner_at_ohiou.edu

(2)  From: Prof Richard H Werking <rwerking_at_nadn.navy.mil>

You and others with similar interests might be interested in my
chapter, "Return to Alexandria," in COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT IN COLLEGE
LIBRARIES (ALA, 1991). It describes what we did at Trinity U. in Texas
during the 1980s in the course of an accelerated collection development
program that included a lot of retrospective buying.  There's also a
possibly useful article about the Trinity Library in WILSON LIBRARY
BULLETIN, around January 1988, written by someone whose name escapes me at
the moment.
   You might consider finding a college library or library consortium
for some kind of "tape-matching" project, or work with an approval vendor
to do a retrospective, profiled run (some details are in the chapter).
You might also give the folks at Marcive a call.
   Good luck; sounds worthwhile and like fun.

Richard Werking
U.S. Naval Academy