Posted on behalf of Brian Hillyard
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The minutes of our meeting of 31 March 2004 can now be viewed through the
link at http://www.nls.uk/professional/rarebooksinscotland/index.html
The next Rare Books in Scotland meeting will take place at the Royal College
of Physicians of Edinburgh (9 Queen Street, Edinburgh) on Tuesday 14
September 2004, and will follow the usual pattern of a "visit" in the
morning and a meeting after lunch. More details will be circulated in due
course: what's important now is to get this date into your diaries, please.
We have been doing some thinking about the proposed "acquisitions workshop",
and bearing in mind the amount of travelling some colleagues have to do, I
would like to propose that we hold this in Edinburgh (precise venue
undecided) the preceding afternoon, Monday 13 September, say 2.30-5.00, with
a break in the middle. We could cover a number of themes, e.g. how to find
books in the first place (policies, desiderata, building contacts), how to
go about bidding at auction, good practice in establishing that purchases
represent value for money (assessing condition, price), checking earlier
provenance (problem of uncancelled library ownership), support from the
National Fund for Acquisitions, and ensuring that cataloguing reflects the
reasons for acquisition. Each theme could be led by a different person
(from a different institution). Please let me have your feedback on date,
proposed organisation, and proposed themes, so that I can judge whether to
go ahead with this as here outlined.
The workshops on bibliographical format and rare book cataloguing that were
held last January will be repeated on 19 January 2005, a date that will
accommodate most if not all of those who applied unsuccessfully for last
January (you will have priority, but please do send in your names again).
As before, we will limit each workshop to 5 persons but if necessary will
run each workshop in both the morning and the afternoon, thus providing 10
places for each in all. As before, there will be no charge, but we ask that
those attending fend for themselves at lunchtime.
Brian
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Dr Brian Hillyard
Rare Book Collections Manager, National Library of Scotland
George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW
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