From: "Fazio, Patricia" <PFazio_at_camdencc.edu>
We have been approached by the highest levels of our college with a plan to
purchase a small liberal arts library collection. We are a large community
college library. Our administration wants to acquire this collection
because they want to obtain an upper level undergraduate collection. Has
anyone out there compared the benefits of acquiring and weeding, staff time,
etc. versus the benefits of buying 'new' from vendors? I suspect that
much of the lower level portions of the 4 yr college collection will be
similar in level or identical to our own. The net amount of books we add
may be much less than the lot amount I have to sift through.
Have others out there run into this situation and how did buying 'new'
compare to sifting through 'acquired'?
Patricia Fazio
Blackwood, NJ 08012
pfazio_at_camdencc.edu
Received on Thu Feb 27 2003 - 21:02:39 EST