From: John Buschman <buschman_at_rider.edu>
The issue of how to assess the dollar value of one's collections has come
up before
on the list (and I've actually used some of the methods reported). However,
this
time I have a bit of a twist on the question of arriving at a valuation for
collections (for insurance purposes):
Does anyone know of *firms* who do this? Those in the Mid Atlantic region
would be
the easiest. As a second note, we are looking for two different types of
valuation
assessment. One is for a rather specialized music library (Talbott Library -
Westminster Choir College of Rider University) with a fair number of special
collections (papers, scores, a 65K item Single Copy file of music, another of
choral music, choral music in performance quantities, along with a music book
collection). The other is our main library at a master's level
comprehensive small
university.
Please reply to me directly, and thanks for any guidance.
John Buschman
Dept. Chair and Collection Development Librarian
Rider University Library
Lawrenceville, NJ
Received on Wed Mar 13 2002 - 17:36:21 EST