Re: Preservation Photocopying Question

[Barbara Berger <beb1@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would definitely think of the user and get that book photocopied right
away!!!



At 04:33 PM 7/28/97 -0600, you wrote:
>
>The following situation has come up a couple of times in my department,
>and I'd appreciate any advice or suggestions from the group:
>
>We make a limited number of photocopy replacements for brittle books every
>year. As part of the process, my technician does a careful search to
>determine if any reprints are available. 
>
>Occasionally we will find a reprint listed in BIP, but the reprint press
>is one that our Acquisitions Dept. doesn't trust to ever come through on
>the order. There are, in fact, a couple of these firms with which they
>absolutely refuse to do business.
>
>In such a situation, what would you do? 
>
>	1) Insist that Acquisitions go through the motions of ordering the
>reprint, just to demonstrate that you'd made a good faith effort to
>acquire the commercial copy? 
>
>	2) Go ahead and photocopy without bothering to order from the
>unreliable vendor?
>
>This problem doesn't come up often enough to be a major problem, but it
>does occur. Any advice would be welcome.
>
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