>
> From:
> Amy Ciccone <aciccone_at_usc.edu>
>
>
> The ARLIS-L listserv of the Art Libraries Society of North America
> (http://www.arlisna.org/about/arlisl.html) allows postings from art
> and architecture book dealers. I highly recommend it.
>
> Amy Ciccone
> Univ. of Southern California Libraries
>
> John P. Abbott wrote:
>
>> [original posting may be found in the list archives:
>>
>> http://serials.infomotions.com/colldv-l/archive/2008/200805/0100.html ]
>>
>>
>>
>> Dear Colldv-l,
>>
>> Some of your listers have been conscientiously helpful:
>>
>> Thanks to all those who took trouble to reply to my enquiry about
>> on-line catalogues and the etiquette of using emails and attachments
>> to send them.
>>
>> Three main points emerge.
>>
>> First to try not to send catalogues to the "wrong " person, people
>> not already primed or ready to receive them .this can well case
>> annoyance and be counter productive!
>>
>> The second was to try to track down the "right " person. This seems
>> obvious, but several of you made the point that the number of people
>> involved in selecting books is relatively few.
>>
>> The third was a connfimation of my original position; that success in
>> trying to sell unusual books depends on striking up a personal
>> relationship with certain people and working with them. There is no
>> short cut to find these.
>>
>>
>> I have had only one suggestion about Directories;/ Mailing Lists,
>> though several make the point that most people guard their email
>> addresses to ward of the kind of "spam" I am plotting; though if
>> anyone would like to see the kind of amterial I was offering in my
>> attachment cataoglue plesase let me know at david.batterham_at_virgin.net
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, David Batterham, London, U.K.
>>
Received on Sun May 25 2008 - 01:37:14 EDT