Random Ramblings-The Used Book Market: Changes for Lilbraries

摘要

The impetus for this column arose when I accidently came across the PowerPoint slides that I used for an ALCTS webinar, October 2010, on the used book market. One presentation dealt with buying books in the used book market while the other focused on how libraries could sell unwanted gifts and discards. A lot has changed in the last ten years, but I found surprisingly few recent articles on these two topics in Library & Information Source. The decline has been especially swift for buying such materials but less for selling since many libraries, more often public than academic, continue to sponsor book sales and offer books on the Internet to generate revenue, albeit at a reduced level.