"OUT OF PRINT" SERVICE

Over the years, Acquisitions has had repeated requests to provide an 'out-of-print' service for requested titles. Our major vendor is currently providing a limited service for these titles. But only 3 months are currently being devoted to the search before the orders are cancelled. While we have received a few titles through this service, the majority of out-of-print titles end up being cancelled.

We now feel that we should offer a true 'out-of-print' service. We plan to contact one or more out-of-print dealers with a want list. The items on the want list would continue to be placed with various dealers in the hopes of locating a copy of the needed title(s).

The items on the want list would come from titles which have first been declared 'out-of-print'. These orders would be returned to the resource coordinator with the 'OP' notation. If the resource coordinator decided that the title was important to the collection, the order card would be returned to Acquisitions requesting out-of- print searching.

For an online peek at such vendors - look at Out of Print Dealers on the Internet.

To fund this program, an allocation of $250.00 is set aside.

To review the steps:

1. Approval of the allocation of $250.00
2. Title on order is declared out-of-print.
3. Order card returned to resource coordinator
4. Order card returned to Acquisitions by resource coordinator for 'OP' service.
5. Title is added to our want list and sent to vendors.
6. Title located by vendor and acquired for library