At NJLA (4/30/08) I attended a workshop "Trash or Treasure" presented by Chad Leinaweaver (Newark PL) and Tim Corlis (Rutgers Special Collections). Tim spoke mostly about mold and the ruinous affect it can have on your collections. Don't accept moldy items which can infect the rest of your collection. Tim provided the terminology for a mold policy that Elsalyn P wrote down and presented to the LBPL director who will then go to the Board of Trustees. If the Board adopts the policy, the library has a position to take with all future donors. If a gift is even suspected of containing mold, will the donor provide funding so that measures can be taken immediately to remove the mold? If not, the library can refuse a gift unless they deem the gift valuable enough to use library funds to restore item.
New books being processed - cataloged, stamped and displayed.....older books being moved to shelves from display areas and duplicates removed from shelves (remember from an earlier post, not necessarily removed from the library).
In March I posted that the library director and volunteer consultant went to investigate the old photographs from Long Branch that were to be auctioned. The Board agreed to fund $175 - unfortunately we later found out that the winning bid was $185. Too bad! But worse the scuttle butt about the pictures is that the purchaser only wanted the frames. So upon taking the newly purchased antiquities home, the new owner removed the photographs from the frames and threw them away. Lessons learned? Make your interests known when purchasing a collection - you never know when the competition is competing for something completely different. Also, if possible, have some flexibility with price. Would $25 more dollars have made any difference?
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